Database Syncing

July 4th, 2011 No comments

When you have a database system that is designed to work on multiple sites you have a couple of options; remotely host the solution on Citrix or Terminal services, or have it local to each site and synchronize the data.

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Apple Store Reading Opens

June 25th, 2011 No comments

After being a total geek this morning and queueing up with the hundreds of other Apple fans, I just want to wish the team at the new Apple Store, Reading all the very best of luck and say how glad we are, at Linear Blue, to see a local Apple Store in Reading.

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FileMaker Feud at DevCon 2011

June 21st, 2011 No comments

Attention FileMaker friends and DevCon attendees: MightyData will host a contest at this year’s conference called FileMaker Feud.

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Sub-summarys within portals pt III

June 10th, 2011 No comments

Welcome to Pt III of the sub-summary portal tricks post. As it continues straight from the first and second posts it may be worth skimming through those here and here.

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MySQL Certified Developer

June 3rd, 2011 No comments

Linear Blue are proud to announce that one of our Senior FileMaker Developers – Damian Kelly has passed the Oracle Certified Professional MySQL 5.0 Developer exam. This compliments our expanding web development team where Damian will offer an excellent level of support and assistance.

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TechNet Meeting 14th June 2011

June 3rd, 2011 No comments

For all those UK TechNet members out there, just to let you know I’ll be giving a preview of one of my DevCon talks at the next TechNet meeting, only we’ll be expanding it into more of a workshop – so bring your laptops.

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Unit Testing for FileMaker Custom Functions

May 27th, 2011 No comments

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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Extracting Data from XML without writing XSLT

May 18th, 2011 3 comments

If you have ever tried writing an XSLT to import data into filemaker, you will know that it is not very easy, unless you know XSLT in detail.

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Sub-summarys within portals pt II

May 10th, 2011 No comments

Welcome to Pt II of the sub-summary portal tricks post. As it continues straight from the first post it may be worth skimming through that post.

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Report Generation in a Locked Down System

May 4th, 2011 No comments

As a bespoke development company we often utilise FileMaker as a development platform to design software systems for our clients that are locked down to allow for a robust environment. The disadvantage of this is that end users are locked away from the great reporting power of Filemaker Pro.

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