Functional vs Procedural programming
March 29th, 2010
A few versions ago FileMaker added the ability to pass parameters to and receive parameters from scripts.
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Sub summaries in portals
March 15th, 2010
Well what do you do when a client says they need a running total in a portal? The first thing that came to mind was some sort of self join summing related records and nasty filters to make it all sequential. Yuck.
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.
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.
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.
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.
