#talesfromthetrenches

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Never let stray errors in the console

Never let stray errors in the console

When doing web development I fix all the errors that show up in the console. Often they don’t seem to impede the actual use of the software, but nevertheless I think it’s a good practice to fix them all. This following example should illustrate why.

I was doing some maintenance on an Angular project at work. I noticed that there were a couple of errors showing up in the console, but the web site…

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Tales from the trenches:

Tales from the trenches:

This post is part of a series of actual problems or bad practices I encountered working on existing C# code bases. The names of all identifiers, the exact functionalities of the programs and the code samples have all been altered for confidentiality reasons. While looking into a slow ASP.Net page I noticed that the page was making a lot more service calls than it should have. Visually I could see…

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Tales from the trenches: ASP.Net static variable bug

Tales from the trenches: ASP.Net static variable bug

This post is part of a series of actual problems or bad practices I encountered working on existing C# code bases. The names of all identifiers, the exact functionalities of the programs and the code samples have all been altered for confidentiality reasons. While working on an ASP.Net control bug, I noticed this more important problem which hadn’t been reported. The reported bug was about a…

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