I know what you’re thinking…. He’s done this one…. and it was boring then as well! But fear ye not – while I am going to talk a bit about twitter – while shamelessly plugging my own twitter.… – there is actually a point to this as well.
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Why FileMaker? Pt.2
I’ve been working with FileMaker for over 20 years and the question that always arises is ‘Why do you use FileMaker?’ or ‘Is FileMaker the right platform to develop our database on?’.
Why FileMaker? Pt.1
I’ve been working with FileMaker for over 20 years and the question that always arises is ‘Why do you use FileMaker?’ or ‘Is FileMaker the right platform to develop our database on?’.
Recurrence in triggered scripts
Recurrence can be really useful. But there are occasions when it is not exactly what you want. For example what happens when you have a script triggered on layout load that goes to another layout then returns? Recursive behaviour is unlikely to be required.
Business networking events – any good?
Just a short one today. I’ve just come out of a meeting and one of the things which came up was Business networking – more specifically the networking meetings you always see the email ads for. The main point of the conversation was, do they actually work?
Finding Dates in FileMaker 8+
When FileMaker Pro 8 came out, the ability to search on date and timestamp fields was vastly improved, these carry through to FileMaker Pro 10. Here’s a short list of some of my favourites that can save a lot of time…
Woopra or Google Analytics?
I’ve just recently had a couple of my sites, the Linear Blue main site and this blog, accepted by Woopra. For those that don’t know it’s basically along the lines of Google Analytics, with one main difference – the added ability to track users in real time.
Backing up large files
I mentioned the other week that I would go into more detail regarding backing up, so here goes. We had a scenario lately where a single FileMaker 9 file was around 1.2Gb and initially it was taking around four minutes to back up, which admittedly is quicker than a FileMaker 6 file. The problem was…
And it’s live!
Over the last few weeks I’ve often blogged and twittered about the upcoming launch of the new Linear Blue website. Well, it’s now live. As of Wednesday morning we have our new website. We launched on April the first, not for the comedy value, but as it is the ninth birthday of Linear Blue.
