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Archives for the ‘FileMaker’ Category

FileMaker 8 Server Released

By Emile • Sep 26th, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General

FileMaker Inc announced the release of version 8 of FileMaker Server, inline with the recent upgrade of the FileMaker product line. What I’m most interested to learn of is how this performs on multi-processor systems relative to single processor systems and if we can theoretically setup a RAID of Mac Minis to be multi-processor […]



Spotlight redux: Building a FileMaker Search Engine

By Emile • Sep 24th, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General, Noteworthy

This technique isn’t a lifesaver, but it could be. People have been asking and I will be showing have already shown it to the NY FileMaker Pro User Group, so here it comes in a nutshell for all the other users and developers:
It’s a global field in the header part of a layout, and […]



FileMaker 7 is dead. Long live FileMaker 8 !!

By Emile • Sep 5th, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General, Software

I’m feeling waves of ease as I no longer have to bite my lip on FileMaker 8 because of a big NDA agreement. To my delight and surprise, I was able to preview FileMaker latest incarnation at the NY FileMaker Group meeting two months ago. Software companies always deliver the sales pitch that […]



Back in business

By Emile • Aug 28th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, FileMaker, General

It took long enough but I’m finally back from an exploration of the beaches and marshes of Hilton Head, South Carolina. Yes, when the beach is 40 ft from your back porch, life is a bitch…
As for other updates, I haven’t forgotten about the promises for the FileMaker search technique a la Spotlight. […]



NY FileMaker Users, Spotlight, & FileMaker 7

By Emile • Aug 12th, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General

For the users that saw the brief presentation I gave tonight on Spotlight and FileMaker, email me for the demo file: denis [at] secretweaponlabs . com
I’m still writing up the full description of the technique for other users.



This is just a random non-important post

By Emile • Aug 11th, 2005 • Category: FileMaker, General

Being done from the Apple Executive Center in NYC. Doesn’t that make me important? Actually, I’m in an underground bunker just testing the connection speed.
Update
Ok, so I’m not REALLY in an underground bunker. But I am in the home offices of Apple in NYC. The reason and occasion? The […]



Slick Point Of Sale systems ??

By Emile • Jul 31st, 2005 • Category: Design, FileMaker, General, Software

Anyone have any good links to intuitive and functional POS systems? I know of ShopkeeperFM and a couple of others whose name I can’t recall, but generally I’m not impressed.



SVN for Mac, explained… F***ING FINALLY!

By Emile • Jul 26th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, Elvgren, FileMaker, General, Taft, Wordpress

Chris J. Davis, already ranked with several gold stars in my book, for his Wordpress evangelism and kick-ass Rate-It Wordpress plugin, has outdone himself once again. Why, you ask? Because he broke down SVN (an open-source version control software) into a simple, layman’s set of instructions that we can use on a Mac […]



New addition to the Lab…

By Emile • Jul 25th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, Elvgren, FileMaker, General, Taft

Mired in Virtual PC slowness, I could no longer contain energy, anxiety, and despair and subsequently purchased a Gateway 7510GX at my local Best Buy. What does this mean for you? Sweeter, thicker, and richer Wordpress themes. Elvgren should finally be IE bug free or as close as possible, AND Taft should […]



Connecting to FileMaker from Wordpress

By Emile • Jul 5th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, FileMaker, General, Wordpress

I notice in the search logs that the blog here gets hit a lot by people looking for “FileMaker to Wordpress” or “Filemaker wordpress” and while I am not particularly certain on to the exact requirements for getting Wordpress data to FileMaker (should be easy with FX.php and a FM7 SQL Script) having data go […]