I really like when people actually use syslog in custom inhouse solutions. But unfortunately it seems that most developers leans toward ease of implementation rather than ease of maintenance. I guess if you make a small project it makes sense not to log to syslog but if you make something that is in production and is critical to a production system it SHOULD use syslog.

When using syslog it is ALOT easier to get all logs to a central location and actually filter them with tools like Swatch or Logwatch.

I hope more developers could put on the system administrator's cape and learn the mantra re-use and NOT re-invent.