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 […]
FileMaker has offered the Technical Resource Kit for quite some time and they’re certainly valuable, AND FREE, and worth downloading. There are three packages available: Foundation Skills, FileMaker Security, and FileMaker Server & Networking.
You can read more and download them here.
It just occurred to me: consolidation of a pre-7 multi-file solution into one nice and neat single-file/multi-table solution. This task is still FAR TOO cumbersome and quite frankly, just a pain in the ass. And there is simply no reason for it.
Illustrator and other professional apps always painlessly upgrade your original files to […]
For those not “in-the-know”, and looking to perhaps up ramp their recognition in the FileMaker indutstry as a FileMaker expert, then look no further. You can now be certified for the version 8 toolset of FileMaker products which can offer recognition, reward, and competitive advantage.
There are several benefits to becoming FileMaker certified and you […]
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 […]
For those not in the know, the folks over at FireWheel design and IconBuffet.com are giving away royalty-free artwork and icons (for both commercial and personal use). Simply, this is a brilliant idea at creating a network of users hawking in the trading of their lovely free creations. All you need to do […]
I’m absolutely delighted to announce the publishing of an interview of myself with Tim Dietrich who recently started publishing the FileMaker Addict blog (who doesn’t love to hear themselves talk?). Some of you may recognize Tim’s name as I have mentioned this blog before.
My interview notwithstanding, I think Tim has a great idea and […]
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 […]
