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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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What's the best way to manage error logging for exceptions?

Introduction 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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How to be robust against webservice downtime caused by third parties

I'm using iPage as my cloud based server provider. I haven't had any problems with them yet. They hold the scripts for my RESTful services for the mobile app I'm developing. My problem however is ...