Mikhail Edoshin, whose blog I strongly recommend reading for some interesting and abstract FileMaker thinking, pointed out here recently that FileMaker has also recently published an elaborate whitepaper on naming conventions of everything from fields, to Table Occurrences, to scripts. I strongly recommend reading it.
If not, take a look at Mikhail’s blog for some […]
In case you missed out, FileMaker has released the v2 updates to FileMaker 8. I have’t found the exclusive fix list, but it may be what some of you have been waiting for, so go get it!
Or so it would seem given the placidity of the blog in recent days. The reasons primarily being that I’ve been in the thick of the final stages of the installation of an elaborate FileMaker setup for a client.
The setup involves 22 clients and one FileMaker server. The server is a […]
Dear people of the place possibly known as Blogland,
I’ve been terribly busy but there is much to write and much to ponder (these are my skims) in the news of late. In no particular order:
- You know Google Analytics is out. I’m tracking all of you suckas right now. I’m in yo […]
The FileMaker paradigm of designing a database system has missed the wonderful tool of parameters for such a long time, that I still find myself having to rethink a lot of solutions where I was previously hardwired to have multiple but similar scripts, instead of one script that could handle practically any paramter I throw […]
Thank you, oh thank you! To be quite honest, this is something that has struck me for quite some time and I’m gladly not nuts and another (obviously, VERY smart) FileMaker developer named Mikhail Edoshin has blogged about it.
Nearly as long as FileMaker developers have been adamant on establishing and using naming […]
I’ve always liked tooltips, the ingenious little popups that fade in and out of existence when users place their mouse cursor over certain hotspots on the screen. Generally, they give you more information about a link or describe the purpose of an obscure icon. And recently, in reading an interview with Shaun Inman […]
I found this excellent example through the forums at FileMaker Magazine of some OSX-styled Tabs built in FileMaker with the help of some graphics. Definitely download and take a look at the technique.
http://mauimail.com/daryl/OSX_Tabs.fp7.zip
The Unofficial Apple Weblog over at tuaw.com has an interesting post on a possible quirk of using FileMaker Server 7 and the ability to backup to a mounted network or external hard drive. The issue may actually be limited to the blog poster, but the solution using AppleScript and folder actions is certainly worth […]
I’m certain I’m not the only one who has hopes and desires for FileMaker. But without skimming the FileMaker newsgroup, other forums, or being privy to the submissions of suggestions by users to FileMaker, it’s difficult to know exactly what FileMaker users and developers want.
I’ve assembled a list and I’m willing to add more […]
