Free Web-Based Exception Reporting

Tsar writes "Promethean Personal Software (makers of Sherpa, a code generating tool for db apps) have quietly released ExceptionCollection, a free (as in beer) online service for developers using any SOAP-enabled environment. You sign up on the site, download their component, add three or four lines of code to your app, and any exceptions thrown by your users get logged at ExceptionCollection.com for your later perusal (the last 100 anyway). There are several options, like whether reporting requires user approval. Is this as cool as it looks, or a solution in search of a problem?"

Comments

Sounds like a marketing tool to me...

[Qui-Gon]

We at Promethean Personal Software promise to never share your email address with another organization, but we reserve the right to send you one piece of email ("spam") about our products per week. You can opt out of the service at any time.

Sounds like I have to "pay" via annoying emails about products... Also, I'm not sure what the advantage is here over a normal bug tracking system. Automatic recording of the Exception message? Blah...

Perhaps they should fix their site's HTML first..

[CyricZ]

It looks like their site has one HTML error.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.excep tioncollection.com

Indeed, I believe it is very important that a company selling a error-detection program take the care and time to ensure that their websites are standards-compliant. It shows that they're concerned with writing correct code, be it HTML or Perl or whatever.

Re:Perhaps they should fix their site's HTML first

[CyricZ]

I wouldn't shop in a grocery store with faeces smeared all over the front windows and doors. Likewise, I will not deal with a software vendor who cannot create a standards-compliant webpage for their product(s).

It's a matter of projecting a good public image, in addition to paying attention to small details (which is essential when doing software development).