3 things to know when your web project goes wrong

0Hazrul Azhar Jamari • 21st Apr 2009 • My Notes, Business, Internet Presence, My Notes • Apache, Backup, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Languages, PHP, Programming, Server, WWW

1. I can’t say it often enough. But I hope you made regular backups.
2. There should always be a log of requests. You don’t need to make a trace log yourself. On Apache and PHP, this is done for you. Macs have it better. Hit Command+Space and type Console. This app will present to you a log of your error messages.
3. If you’re doing stuff like Ajax and RIA, always develop using Firefox. It’s the only true developer browser. Hit Shift+Command+J (if you’re on the Mac) and the Error Console will pop up. It helps debugging javascript code a lot.