There is a lot of confusion around logging because software developers use it to debug code whereas IT people use it to manage alarms in systems. Call me an id

There is a lot of confusion around logging because software developers use it to debug code whereas IT people use it to manage alarms in systems. Call me an idiot but I did write custom loggers multiple times in the past. I did that because I use a lot of trace messages for debugging and that is so unusual that it kills the existing loggers big way. Nowadays I don't do that anymore, I use the system logger. I do that because I managed to find a way to factorize the logging logic out from the filtering logic. For example in JavaScript I do var de = isEnabledTraceXXXXX(); xxx de&&bug( "Tracing YYYY"); This is ultra efficient and readable thanks to the && progressive operator. For those interested, I described that trick there: http://virteal.com/DebugDarling http://virteal.com/DebugDarling