London will be playing host to it’s own PauseOnError on October 20-21 at the Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes Hotel in Baker Street. It’s going to be the same format as the previous Pause events in New York and Portland, but with a few minor differences. Primarily, this boils down to using conference rooms instead of presenting in hotel rooms. As Pause on Error is an unconference, it’s a much more self organising event than others such as FileMaker Devcon.
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Recently I’ve spent some time looking at FileMaker’s internal SQL support. In this article I discuss how we can use FileMaker scripting to add and delete tables from a FileMaker database.
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Unit testing involves testing software at a component level to ensure that each element is functioning correctly. This differs from system testing where we determine whether the complete system is working as expected.
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FileMaker 11 has provided us with some new options when it comes to code reuse. This blog entry shows a simple example of how we can write modular reusable code.
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So we’ve now got a new version of FileMaker . It’s got improvements across the board which make it a better, more productive development environment. There are no dramatic surprises as FileMaker has kept up their mantra of slow and steady improvement in the product. Many of the changes appear to be small, but smooth away the rough edges. The .fp7 file format has been maintained, so no conversion process is required to use an existing post-FileMaker 7 solution.
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As the latest person to join Linear Blue I should probably introduce myself to everyone and make a start on my first blog entry here.
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