Oct 15, 2025
The Tale of a Null Field: Why Data Hygiene Matters in SaaS Development
Sometimes, the smallest details can break your code in the most unexpected ways. This week, while wiring up dropdowns for our legal deadline platform, I ran into one of those “silent failures” that every developer dreads. I was trying to populate a Case Types dropdown for the UI. Everything seemed wired up correctly—repositories were injected, the view model was prepared, and the code was…
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