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Vertical Market Solutions in FileMaker, Issue 0
There’s not a lot of info, I realize, on the web or collectively disseminated about building a vertical market solution using FileMaker Pro as your development and user environment. Many people have built vertical market solutions, but few have actually spoken about it.
Given this is something I feel passionate about and have had numerous [...]
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Designing for politeness
“If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.” — Alan Cooper, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
I recently found an article on Viget Advance that nicely reviews what separates frustrating software from good software. It summarily reviews designing “polite software”. In [...]
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Announcing InBloom Shop Software 2.0
After a massive rewrite, I’m delighted to announce InBloom Shop Software version 2!
This was a re-dreaming of what InBloom can and should do with FileMaker Pro’s growing ease of use and power, as well as what a good product should strive to be.
This new version is designed for retail and resale business owners who aren’t [...]
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Who knew? Printing on a Mac CAN be sexy!
The folks at NRG Software put up a post about how Mac OS 10.5.2 now has Zebra printer compatibility. For the uninitiated, this means Macs can finally interface to the Zebra printers just about every retail business uses/needs. Dymos are good but not for heavy duty printing. I’m absolutely psyched and you [...]
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The FM10 Feature NO ONE is talking about
So here I am browsing through a solution I’m looking to update to FM10, when I see a new script step. And it has me salivating and no one, not even the ebullient FM bloggers over at SixFriedRice, is discussing it. It seems to effectively be a kind of way to tie a UNIX cron [...]
Introducing InBloom, a new application from SWL
InBloom is the first-ever complete shop solution made to organize your store and run on your Mac, PC, or both. It's the only inventory management, point of sale, check printing, contact & buyer management, and more solution that is networkable and customizable. You can use and create the sexiest reports & receipts you've ever seen, share data and network computers with multiple users, and it doesn't require a whole technology staff to run. All you need is your computer and a printer.
Data-Scrubbing A Ruse?
So I’m still tinkering with FileMaker 8.5 and I’m not totally sold on the data-scrubbing PR that’s being spun in the direction of users. For example, is it easy to get prices from a live auction on eBay? From the visual, we are led to believe that we have to hard-code parts of the example [...]
Recovering FileMaker Passwords
For those who don’t know, Filemaker offers password and file recovery services in case you ever need to repair a version 7 or 8 file. But recently, I learned of a tool careof Passware.com and LostPassword.com, called FileMaker Key. The tool resets passwords to any FileMaker file, though version 8, to an 8-character string. [...]
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Secret Weapon Notes: Volume 8
So here’s the eighth volume of Secret Weapon Notes, and I’m reaching out to you readers as to your thoughts on such posts. Are they worthwhile for you? I love them in that they nicely consolidate a diverse and random set of links into a nice digest format and half the time I [...]
A developer review of the new FileMaker 11 – Part 1