Mary Jo Sminkey talks about “Advanced Error Handling Strategies for ColdFusion, Javascript and SQL” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.

She is one of the speakers at the CFObjective Conference and 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.

Show notes

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

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Bio

Mary Jo Sminkey

 

 

 

 

 

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

Facebook

(* WWIT = What Would It Take)

Interview transcript

Michael:                            Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Mary Jo Sminkey, and she is speaking at cf.Objective() on advanced error handling strategies for ColdFusion, JavaScript and SQL Server. We're gonna be looking in this episode,