Georg Jansen posted on June 28, 2005 09:20
I have spent a lot of time getting FaktNet up and running, formalities and stuff.
One of my definitive favorite open source projects has for a long time been Log4Net. I am a strong believer in heavy logging. And I think that Log4Net offers what I need, it is configurable (in runtime), it offers a great choice of appenders which makes it possible to send the logging evens wherever you like (may be except to may coffee machine). But the Log4Net framework is missing a viewer application, so I deices I want to build one. And this one is not going to just a simple grid which I (and probably a lot of others) have put together with minimal efforts, just to let the customers have some way of inspecting the log.
After some considerations between makings a windows application or a web application – I go for the web application. First and foremost because the web choice makes it easy to give access to several people, and people responsible for daily operations can view it from home or wherever they are – they just need a web browser and access through a company firewall. Making a web application it is feasible to let the dashboard be visible one the outside of a firewall in a secure manner.