Max J Mammel
Guest Author: Max Mammel
Max Mammel is an Indianapolis-based Technical Lead of a web application development team with a global Fortune 500 firm. Max is an expert in design patterns, system architecture, and object-oriented programming and brings many years of Java know-how to SolidlyStated.com

I suspect that there are nearly as many solutions to the problem of email address validation as there are projects that require them. I’ve seen a fair amount of them myself over the years, they range from simply checking for the presence of an @ in a string to extremely complex and often flawed sub-routines designed for the task. Get a proper script

Many younger developers don’t have an opportunity to use log files, especially in situations where they have installed their web server on their local computer and don’t need to worry about debugging their site on the fly. Learn to use your logs.