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I don't always test my code, but when I do, I do it in Prod. Old meme, but relevant to the post, I think. 
Logging errors to a log table is great, emails not so great. You can always create a dashboard, or better yet, use any of the countless log file/table readers out their for the morning bad news.
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I made an IT Helpdesk interface and a user can request help (or lacking the ability to log-on, it can be requested for them by another user.
Although I'm not sure I believe in it, I think there's something to be said for the philosophy "If it doesn't bother them it doesn't bother us"
(We do test a lot before the users ever see an application)
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My previous employer wanted to make it standard procedure to email every exception in our code to the sysadmin at our customer.
I strongly advised against it as we would soon be labeled spammers and I don't think the customer is willing to pay any invoices we send them if they see the amount of exceptions in our/any code 
It's specifically fun when, for example, the database is down, but the user just keeps on clicking some button hoping that this time it will work 
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...but instead my Mum has been dead for 24 years and 1 month.
Going to have a few quite beers tonight, cause for the first time I completely missed the anniversary of her death.
Melanomka sucks arse.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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My sympathies. I shall hoist a cold one in her memory.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: My sympathies. I shall hoist a cold one in her memory.
Thanks Pete.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Wow, so she died at 40. That is sooo young (I will turn 40 in a couple of years)...
My sympathies, have a few ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) for me. 
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Rage wrote: Wow, so she died at 40. That is sooo young (I will turn 40 in a couple of years)...
If you wait about 11.5 weeks I'll post about my little Sister's 45th birthday. 4 months later she will have been dead for 17 years from the same cancer.
Rage wrote: My sympathies, have a few [beer] for me.
Thanks. If you could have some, wine, a baguette, smelly cheese and garlic you could fulfill a stereotype for me.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: If you could have some, wine, a baguette, smelly cheese and garlic you could fulfill a stereotype for me
That's a stereotype I can fill for you!
Be thankful you have pleasant memories of your lost ones, I would dance of the graves of my parents if I could be bothered to find them.
Cancer is a stone bitch, my brother is in stage 4, but at least he has had a good long innings, dying young is just a tragedy.
Enjoy a beer, cherish the memories!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Be thankful you have pleasant memories of your lost ones, I would dance of the graves of my parents if I could be bothered to find them.
Of my Sister. My Mum was chased out in 1973 and although I had a few years of every second weekend I really didn't know or see her. Went to see her around my 21st birthday and didn't keep in touch as I was getting ready for a wedding and a house. Got a call leading up to my 22nd and found out she was dying.
I got to live in an early rendition of what is now a trendy two poof household with kids. Not a good thing. Had nothing to do with my side of the family since 1998 when my sister died. The father died in 2003 and they kept it very quite so I didn't get to go to the funeral.
I put both poofs in gaol in 1999/2000 and have been cut out of everything. The grandmother that raised me died late last year and left me nothing and everything to the remaining previously gaoled poof. Currently going through court to get mine and leave hime with as little possible. I don't over that way cause it is no longer acceptable to sort certain vaginas out without the law involved.
I miss the 70's/80's when you could sort sh*t out the corret if not the legal way. A good old bashing would make me feel better and ... really just make me feel better.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: she will have been dead for 17 years from the same cancer.
I am sorry. Life really sucks sometimes.
Michael Martin wrote: If you could have some, wine, a baguette, smelly cheese and garlic you could fulfill a stereotype for me
I am at work right now, so I will go for Sauerkraut, and Weissbier =)
If I don't forget tonight, I'll make and send you a picture : that stereotype has to be fulfilled.
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Sorry Michael, she was really young and that makes it even more terrible.
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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That's a rat's arse of a thing to happen. Drink plenty. To remember. 
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I can feel a downward twinge - then your sister, too. My parents are old - really in the end game - and I know the gray hunter is stalking us all.
Still - the concept is overwhelming - A nephew passed this year, in his mid 30's. The whole concept of someone - anyone - being gone and the helplessness of those left behind. Really too much to truly grasp.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You can, with either this IOCCC 2013 Winner[^]
or its more maintainable and better commented brother[^].
Both of these are quite cool!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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1MB RAM?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Obfuscated at 4K, wow that is tiny.
Oh boy I can run Lotus 1-2-3 now...again!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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Kids today won't believe the things we used to do on 8086 machines.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As I became a software developer I became more of an entrepreneur.
I love the idea of engineering a company into existence just as I do software.
I really like great books about this too. I am currently reading Guy Kawasaki's fantastic book, The Art of the Start 2.0[^].
I wonder if you find this to be true in your life also.
I am very interested in taking an idea as simple as my new web site: X-- link removed by request --X and turning it into something a lot of people are interested in.
Do you ever dream of building something bigger than software?
What is Quotimal?
It is a daily great or funny quote along with an cute animal picture.
I'm serious. Check it out and re-post it, tweet it. Every day a new one.
What Benefit Does Quotimal.com Offer?
It is meant only to make you smile.
But a little more too.
Watch this fantastic Ted Talk by Jane McGonigal author of Reality Is Broken (https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_the_game_that_can_give_you_10_extra_years_of_life?language=en[^]) and notice that she mentions the life benefits of such a small thing.
modified 24-Mar-15 7:22am.
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newton.saber wrote: Many devs, by nature, are also entrepreneurs?
No.
newton.saber wrote: Do you ever dream of building something bigger than software?
Let's keep my dreams out of this 
newton.saber wrote: Check it out and re-post it, tweet it.
I'm not on Twitter and do not share every random link.
newton.saber wrote: It is meant only to make you smile.
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
..and like a sales-pitch it sounds. You're on CodeProject. Try something like "I wrote a website that shows a random quote, anyone see if you can break it". Place a question that shows concatenated sql a few days before the promotion and you'll get lots of visitors
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
+5 lifepoints for the Princess Bride quote. 
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I suppose having started and continuing to maintain a successful company (i.e. one with positive cash flow and zero debt) qualifies me as an entrepreneur. But I must admit, what really turns me on is building software that meets the needs of end users and makes their lives easier.
I would much rather want to be involved in identifying and satisfying my customers' business needs (by building software) than be involved in growing a company or selling a product.
/ravi
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Very interesting and very cool that you are running your own successful business. Congrats and thanks for the feedback.
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newton.saber wrote: Many devs, by nature, are also entrepreneurs?
I feel many devs, by nature, are just like people, bunglers  (fun fact, first time I ever used that word in English, I use it daily in Dutch).
I'm not an entrepeneur yet. Just bought a house, got a new job, happy the way I am. For now.
newton.saber wrote: I'm serious. Check it out and re-post it, tweet it. Every day a new one.
Your website is missing some share buttons. And a lot more too. Like a nice layout that attracts people and makes them want to come back. And previous, next and random buttons. Perhaps a comment section. That sort of stuff. I want goodies like stickers, mugs and t-shirts too.
Other than that I like the picture, I like the quote, I like the idea
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