FileMaker Go solutions that are installed locally on the iPhone or iPad provide a better over-all user experience because they are faster than hosted solutions and can work even when you don't have a good connection. Once you decide to go down this path, you are faced...
Well this has been brutal. But I finally managed to get my site redesigned, and migrated to a platform that won't suck my time away. I have traded in Drupal for Wordpress. After about 4 years of trying to grok Drupal, I gave up. Compared to WordPress, it is a...
I had a great time at the Southern Ontario FileMaker Association meeting. The weather was really nice. I didn't even need to break out my winter coat. I want to thank Dave Pong for setting it up, and for getting the word out. Thanks to every one who came. We covered...
I am speaking at the Southern Ontario FileMaker Association tonight. I will be speaking on the Mobile Opportunity For FileMaker Developers. This should be fun. I haven't been to this group in a long, long time. Here is a link to the meeting info. Agenda The Mobile...
First, I want to take a moment to say "thank you" to every one who came to my session at DevCon. I had a lot of fun doing it, and the feedback I have received through email and through my website has been really positive. This makes me really happy! I just received...
After I got home I recorded my entire session from this year's DevCon. Here it is along with all the files that I used in the session. Hope you enjoy.The video player below should allow you to play the video in HD and in full screen. Click "HD" for HD and the little...
I have been working on building some Rich UIs for FileMaker using the Rector Plugin from Digital Fusion. I really like this plugin. It lets me do just about anything I want with FileMaker Web Viewers. In this little example video, I show off a custom login screen...
UPDATE: this post is quite old. I still thing custom functions are not as portable as they should be. However in any complex solution I use the custom functions. The ones I use are from modularfilemaker.org Whats the best way to pass multiple parameters to a script?...
While John Sindelar and I were doing our West Coast FmPug tour we sat down with Matt Navarre to do a podcast. Actually we didn't sit, we stood, but you get the idea. We talked about the upcoming release of GoZync, and a bunch of other things, like the MacBook Air,...
I was complaining to Richard Gaskin of FouthWorld about how LiveCode's Application Browser showed plugin stacks. I almost never want to see those there. They just get in the way. Richard convinced me that I could create a Patcher Stack that would solve the problem....
When FileMaker Go first shipped, I wrote about it being a whole new platform. The opportunity that it presented was so big that I thought FileMaker Go would be come the first Platform that I would build for. But in the months after the release, I didn't even use it...
For years I have been using a recursive custom function to get a list of all the Selected Tab Panels on a layout. This works quite well, but in my current project I wanted to get rid of all custom functions. I didn't really want to use a looping script. I wanted a...
UPDATE: I got re-tweeted by Sencha Inc. it blew out my bandwidth at screencast.com. That is totally cool! I have been doing a lot of work with JavaScript lately. Specifically looking at how to build cross platform mobile web apps that connect to FileMaker. There...