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Archive for August, 2006

More free icons

By Emile • Aug 31st, 2006 • Category: General

Careof IconBuffet.com, I’ve acquired Dresden Atmosphere.  If you’re interested in trading or grabbing these free icons, let me know via comments.
I’m still DYING to get my hands on the BlinkSale icons…



The Caveat of Using “Run With Full Access Privileges”

By Emile • Aug 21st, 2006 • Category: General

Imagine yourself in my shoes, when you’ve been working on a massive FileMaker 5 to FileMaker 8 migration and you’re basically done with the code.  You’re relieved.  Now comes regression testing and in the very first phase, a seemingly simple script which checks some user permissions and performs certain actions depending on those permissions completely […]



Secret Weapon Notes: Volume 12

By Emile • Aug 16th, 2006 • Category: General

A slew of things are happening this week and I think are worth noting.

First and foremost the FileMakers developer conference is happening right now in Miami. I didn’t go, for many reasons. Make no mistake, I would have a hard time showing up at any conference sessions given the Miami backdrop. You can […]



An Introduction to Using Patterns in Design

By Emile • Aug 11th, 2006 • Category: General

In all of the hubbub that has kept me silent on this here forum, I stumbled across this great post/paper by 37signals.  It’s worth a read for the FileMakers, Information Architects and Designers amongst us who can hit a road block on how to layout and design a particuliar piece of layouts/screen/page.  Read on.



46″ Of Happiness

By Emile • Aug 4th, 2006 • Category: General

</div> Seldom do I get so blown away that I feel I HAVE to recommend a product. But after having recently moved into a new apartment and found that my ancient TV doesn’t support my newish DVD and cable box, I was pissed off. Off to the interwebs I went and discovered a […]