All is quiet on the eastern front…
Saturday, December 10th, 2005Or 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 new Apple Dual Core 2Ghz with 1.5 gigs of RAM. That fact deserves its own sentence because the server is lightning fast! The solution was developed and tested on a several OS X machines with the fastest being a 1Ghz G4 eMac. This is most interesting and fascinating because I, with a number of other developers, have been developing the solution since FM version 5. With the advent of FM 7, we decided with the client to rewrite everything from scratch in FM 7 Developer. The process has been a long and arduous one as the deliverable project has just recently been completed and the client asking about some of the FM 8 features that they would LOVE to get to their users. So with all the work, testing, and debugging that we’ve been doing we have never really migrated the solution to any machines other than our test servers, so when we saw the noticeable speed increased on the latest and greatest Apple hardware, we were thrilled.
The remaining issues are primarily training users, squashing some small ‘features’ and working on implementing some advanced syncing features, most likely using WorldSync’s SyncDek developer product. I’ve been meaning to really sink my teeth into that product and I haven’t seen more specific developer comments on it yet so it should be insightful and interesting when I finally do. In the meantime, if any of you have used SyncDek, post some feedback and/or comments.
Cheers!