…and to celebrate, here’s a couple of links for anyone interested in reading about the rather unglamorous yet important subject of application logging.

Firstly a post from my personal blog titled You’re doing it wrong – error logging. Writing can often be prompted through first hand experiences, and this was certainly one of those times.

Here at Ignition, our logging library of choice is currently log4net. It’s flexible, free, works well, and using it means we save time by not having to build something from scratch. That last point might seem a strange one to labour – but you’d be surprised how often we see other people wanting to re-invent the wheel in application development, and it seems to be an incredibly popular thing to do when it comes to error logging. If you’re looking to get up to speed with log4net, then this post from Jan Heggernes would be a great place to start.

Happy logging!

-Ross