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ESS, MySQL, views and temporary tables

December 14th, 2009

I am continuing to work on an ESS integration project and one of the biggest issues is speed when dealing with large record sets from MySQL.

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Damian Kelly Database, FileMaker, Web , ,

ESS and Surprised MySQL developers

October 27th, 2009

I had a conference call with a client, one of their biggest customers and the customers’ developers the other day. Both the customer and my client are having new systems written (my client in FileMaker, my client’s customer in MySQL and, i guess, HTML) and they are both keen on integrating stock figures.

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Damian Kelly Database, FileMaker, Web , , , ,

Digital Pen and Paper Technology

October 23rd, 2009

I have been doing quite a bit of work with smart pens recently so I thought I would drop in a quick primer on the technology.

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Damian Kelly Business, Database, FileMaker , , , , , ,

Recurrence in triggered scripts

April 16th, 2009

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.

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Damian Kelly FileMaker ,