I’d just like to take this opportunity in congratulating Chris Manton of BabelFix Ltd. in attaining Platinum status within the FileMaker Business Alliance. It’s is very well deserved and I wish him and his team all the very best for the future.
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?’.
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?’.
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?’.
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 that we wanted to back the file up every hour and, of course, the users weren’t happy to wait for four minutes every hour throughout the day.
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 blog).
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. The only downside is that it only works on Macintosh, but as that is my preferred development platform it works for me.
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.
