Have you ever been to a site and gotten a pop-up box telling you about a
JavaScript error on the page? It can be really annoying.
What's worse is that the person responsible for maintaining the site doesn't
even know that the error occurred.
This article isn't about ColdFusion error handling. That was covered in 2000
and 2001 in CFDJ by Charlie Arehart's four-part series, "Toward Better Error
Handling," as well as by others. Rather, this article will tell you some ways
to trap JavaScript errors on the client. More important, it'll tell you how
to communicate these errors to ColdFusion automatically so you can write the
errors to a log file or e-mail the errors to yourself and find out about them
right away. Indeed, the trick we use may be useful to you in ways beyond just... (more)
Back when I had some free time, I started working on my own code generator,
partly because other code generators create code slightly different from my
preferences and partly for the challenge.
I have since gotten too busy to finish it, but I went ahead and finished the
kernel component of the system - the one that actually generates the code. To
download the component go to www.bryantweb... (more)
Everyone knows that you should reuse your code so that you don't have to
repeatedly write the same functionality. You put widgets in custom tags and
encapsulate logic in CFCs. Even so, your application's user interface may
frequently end up changing. Sometimes the changes are so substantial that it
hardly seems worth the effort to try to reuse code at all. Your efforts to
reuse code and ... (more)
Steve Bryant's Blog
Yesterday John Farrar presented to the Online ColdFusion Meetup Group on his
forms custom tag set, COOP. Actually, he describes it as a framework to
separate page markup from processing logic.
Most of what I saw solves a problem in the same space as a custom tag set
that I have been using for a few years (and hoping to put into beta soon).
So, I am likely somewhat bias... (more)
Most sites have similar issues related to the site layout. I have seen many
solutions that solve some challenges related to layout, but fail to handle
others elegantly. I have found that using layout components elegantly solves
all of the layout problems I have faced.
What Do I Want?
Here are my goals for handling layouts. I want to:
Make edits to the layout in one place Easily switch layo... (more)
Steve Bryant is the founder and CEO of Bryant Web Consulting LLC (www.bryantwebconsulting.com) and teaches ColdFusion at Breakaway Interactive (www.breakawayinteractive.com). He got his BA in philosophy at Oklahoma State University. Steve, one of the top ColdFusion developers in the country, still has no idea how that led to a career in Web development. Steve blogs at steve.coldfusionjournal.com as one of CFDJ's published bloggers.
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