Here’s a bright idea from our friends at “37signals”:http://www.37signals.com/ makers of “Basecamp”:http://www.basecamphq.com and “Backpack”:http://www.backpackit.com/ really sweats the details. In fact they wrote an “entire book”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/073571410X on “defensive design”.
When checking my Backpack page recently (it’s my default home page), the site had a bit of a hiccup and I got this message:
Now isn’t that a whole lot better than a generic 404 error or spitting out code from a database error?