Mary Jo Sminkey talks about “Advanced Error Handling Strategies for ColdFusion, Javascript and SQL” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michael Smith.
She is also one of the speakers at the CFObjective Conference. She will be covering not just CF but JS/Ajax and SQL Server error logging and strategies for debugging errors on live sites. Developers should come away from this talk with lots of ideas for both custom code they can add to their sites as well a variety of open source and 3rd party solutions for error logging and use site analytics to track and fix issues on their live sites. Blog articles expanding on the information presented in this talk will also be published concurrent with the conference.
Episode highlights * Why every CFer should be doing error logging * CF error logging + Global Error Handler + Capturing Different Scopes + Preventing unwieldy numbers of error emails + Logging to capture larger amounts of data vs. emailing all errors * Tracking User Actions + Per user history of pages accessed held in session scope + Shopping cart contents + User account info * JS/Ajax error logging + Ajax tracker in user session - Track Ajax request parameters - Log Ajax response and/or success * SQL Server error logging + Stored procedures errors + Log table to log SP params and info + Unexpected NULL values * Strategies for debugging errors on live sites * Variety of open source and 3rd party solutions for error logging * Using site analytics to track and fix issues on their live sites + 404 errors + 301 redirects + Log events in analytics + Search results events * Full Stack Application performance management tools + Full user interactions tracking + Reporting on performance too + All in one place * Why are you proud to use CF? * WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year? + More developer outreach to bring in new developers - we are still developing it, cool new features * What are you looking forward to at CFObjective?
Mentioned in this episode * Mary Jo’s full custom CF error handler + Only emailing on unique errors * Bugsnag - with REST API collector, Javascript collector, subscribe to bug, track as fixed, renotify if it comes back, bug high level alerts, searchable by customer IP * BuglogHQ - open source CF tool * FusionReactor for slow CF pages and SQL queries * Source maps for minified production JS code * CodeKit (for Mac) * Jenkins build server * JSON structure saved to server and displayed with JSON viewer * Solr search * Browser Hawk * CFLOG * Logbox * Dynatrace * Cisco Appdynamics
Bio Mary Jo is a long-time ColdFusion developer, having worked with CF since the Allaire days, and for many years she authored and sold one of the most popular ecommerce platforms for the language, CFWebstore. Today she works for CFWebtools as a Senior Developer, continuing to support and build large ecommerce websites. In her spare time, she enjoys a wide variety of hobbies, including dog training and showing, sewing, knitting, board gaming, origami, handbell choir and other musical pursuits, and is a reviewer for Amazon products via their Vine program. She is a cancer survivor and suffers from fibromyalgia as well as various RSI issues from years of computer work so encourages young developers to pay attention to their ergonomics and learning how to ensure a healthy work environment. She enjoys cosplaying and attending conventions and runs a Facebook group for Cosplay with Disabilities which helps advocate and support people who cosplay with disabilities and the challenges that entails.
Links * CFWebtools blog * Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjsminkey * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maryjo.sminkey