Phillip Pearson - web + electronics notes

tech notes and web hackery from a new zealander who was vaguely useful on the web back in 2002 (see: python community server, the blogging ecosystem, the new zealand coffee review, the internet topic exchange).

2013-1-8

DEAL_WITH_IT_LATER logging severity

Here's an idea I've had a few times but never gotten around to implementing: when an application encounters a correctable data consistency error, or does something that's likely to fail, it should log something to a table so that another process (which may not be written until years later) can double-check that nothing messed up, or clean up after the operation. User (spammer?) deletion is a good one -- as in a large application, it's easy to forget to implement all the cleanup logic when adding new features.