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Why many ASP.NET websites not HTML validating friendly? [closed]
I used http://validator.w3.org to check many websites and I have noticed that the ASP.NET sites contain large number of errors. Why? and Is it possible to make it valid?
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Catching an error?
Is catching an error with try ... catch a better practice than catching an error with proper analysis/error check? For instance, removing from an empty list: Does surround with a try catch clause ...
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How often do experienced programmers have trouble getting their code to perform its intended purpose?
I'm kind of inexperienced with programming (ie less than a year) and I have recently been getting discouraged, mostly from not being able to solve problems with my own code (Not forgetting parentheses ...
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Common Industry Term For Negative Logging?
It is one thing to log something that happened in code, a process, or procedure. It is another thing to log something that didn't happen. For example, if your ETL system is supposed to receive a ...
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How to teach your users/customers to send better error descriptions
I often have to deal with customers or users which are reporting errors in applications.
Most of the time their content is something useless as
ERROR!!!
x does not work
without much more ...
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Silent Crash of WPF/VB.net 2010 based application
I have an application built in WPF and VB.net. It works on several Windows XP computers that I've tested it on, however, my animator's computer doesn't seem to like it.
At first, the program would ...
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Worst practices in C++, common mistakes [closed]
After reading this famous rant by Linus Torvalds, I wondered what actually are all the pitfalls for programmers in C++. I'm explicitly not referring to typos or bad program flow as treated in this ...
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How should compilers report errors and warnings?
I don't plan on writing a compiler in the near future; still, I'm quite interested with compiler technologies, and how this stuff could be made better.
Starting with compiled languages, most ...
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What are developer's problems with helpful error messages?
It continue to astounds me that, in this day and age, products that have years of use under their belt, built by teams of professionals, still to this day - fail to provide helpful error messages to ...
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How to Solve an Error?
I am novice developer.
While development is going on, we come across different error issues. However for the novice of programming, it is always hard to directly understand them & solve them.
I ...
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Under what circumstances should error messages be presented to the user?
Should error messages ever be presented to an end user and if so what rules or advice should you have about what should be in them?
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Error handling, creating time line, need help defining what aspects of the environment need tracking
For my final year project, I'm working on a script that will run your python program and provide a time line of events(so far working on assignments) and create a story of what happened(the changes in ...
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Managing Production Issues during a Scrum Sprint
The question of managing bugs in production has been a large feature in my mind of late. Sprint's are not meant to have any items added into them, but for critical bugs, this is simply unavoidable.
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What's the best way to manage error logging for exceptions?
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If an error occurs on a website or system, it is of course useful to log it, and show the user a polite message with a reference code for the error.
And if you have lots of systems, you ...
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In Java, what are checked exceptions good for?
Java's checked exceptions have gotten some bad press over the years. A telling sign is that it's literally the only language in the world that has them (not even other JVM languages like Groovy and ...
