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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Fast Server Hard Drives…

The talk I gave at TechNet last week was all about the new FileMaker Server 10 and whilst I was browsing the web I came across this video form Samsung, all about their SSD drives.

TechNet March 2009

Last Thursday was the UK TechNet meeting in Cookham. It was a fantastic day with some great presentations. My presentation on the new features in FileMaker Server 10 seemed to go down well and led to some interesting discussions on deployment and backup strategies (I’ll talk more about some of these ideas in a future…

SEO and W3C

Do you W3C? In the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on the new Linear Blue website, which launches on the 1st of April. While making some changes I spent some time going back through the code to make sure it was still W3C compliment. Something which is very time consuming! (And as I’m…

Selecting Table Occurrences – Fast

If you’ve ever worked on a FileMaker database that is of any decent size, you’ll know how time consuming it can be to locate the correct Table Occurrence  in your Relationship Graph.  Well the team at myFMbutler have very kindly developed a little application to help, and what’s even better they give it away free….

5 Ways to help get through the recession.

We all know by now that this recession will be here for a little while. It doesn’t mean that we should all panic though, let’s leave that to the politicians, we have businesses to run!

The Web Techy Posts Start Here

Rob Basden Joins Linear Chat Over the course of time we will all be posting about our particular areas of expertise – with mine being anything that falls under the category of “web technologies” (although there may be a few diversions in there at some points). So keep an eye out for some posts about…

TechNet Presentation 26th March 2009

Hi to all the UK TechNet members who might be reading my little corner of the web.  Just to let you know I’ll be presenting a talk on the new FileMaker Server 10 at the forthcoming TechNet meeting on the Thursday 26th.

So… Twitter and SEO…

What is it? Just in case anyone doesn’t know – Twitter is basically a micro blogging site that gives you 140 characters to blog with! Simple as really. You follow people, people follow you, it’s all very nice.

FileMaker Plug-ins

I was talking with another developer the other day, who was fairly new to FileMaker. He was telling me how he had never used plug-ins within his solutions and was fairly apprehensive of them.

The Obligitary First Post

Who Am I? It’s always best to attempt to start at the beginning – at least that was what I was always taught – so here goes.