Monthly Archives: July 2011

Making Things Happen: To-Do Lists/Timelines

Published on July 27, 2011 by Susan Fennema

This is the second in a 3-part series. See part one here. In the first part of Making Things Happen, we talked about setting goals. We ended up with this as the final goal: “I want my team to share development tips and tricks monthly via professionally designed marketing eblasts with my customers.” We’ve clearly [...]

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PHP and FileMaker DevCon 2011 Session

Published on July 26, 2011 by Anders Monsen

Web publishing with FileMaker Pro requires several choices. Instant Web Publishing (IWP) nearly mirrors the FileMaker layout for a similar user experience, but has few customization options. Custom Web Publishing (CWP), as the first word implies, offers greater ability to make changes in appearance and content, but requires more effort on the part of the [...]

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Get Pumped. Get Ready! DevCon is Near.

Published on July 25, 2011 by Martha Zink

So what’s this blog article about? Arnie said it best: “I’m here to pump you up.” With the FileMaker Developer Conference (DevCon) just around the corner, I wanted to shine some light on my two sessions, in hopes of increasing the number of FileMaker folks that attend as well as get you excited as you [...]

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Update: Mac OS X Lion & FileMaker 11

Published on July 20, 2011 by Kirk Bowman

Today Apple released Lion (10.7), the next major upgrade to Mac OS X. At the same time FileMaker Inc. released a new Knowledge Base article with details on Lion compatibility for FileMaker Pro 11 and FileMaker Server 11. FileMaker Pro 11 is compatible except for minor issues with number and data formatting, and no support [...]

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SyncDek – An Alternative for Audit Logging

Published on July 14, 2011 by Kirk Bowman

Auditing logging is a common request from customers—the ability to track database activity including adding, editing, and deleting records, who changed it and when. In some types of businesses, like medical and financial, the law requires it. Generally, there are two approaches to audit logging in FileMaker, either native functionality or a third-party tool. WorldSync [...]

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Mac OS X Lion & FileMaker 11

Published on July 13, 2011 by Kirk Bowman

(A quick note about the imminent release of Mac OS X Lion from our July newsletter.) Apple has announced that the next major release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7) will ship in July. Since this is the first production release of the OS, we recommend customers take a wait-and-see approach. FileMaker Inc. has not yet announced [...]

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Six Text Editors for PHP Development – Part 3

Published on July 6, 2011 by Anders Monsen

This is the third in a 3-part series. To conclude this series, we continue with the best paid Mac apps available. (See part 1 and part 2.) BBEdit 9.6.3 I’m slightly prejudiced here as I’ve been using BBEdit for pure text editing since the mid 90′s. Habit breeds comfort. The big brother of TextWrangler, BBEdit [...]

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MightyData at FileMaker DevCon

Published on July 5, 2011 by Kirk Bowman

July 4th has come and gone. The fireworks have been exhausted and soon the attention of most parents will turn to the start of school. However, in the FileMaker community we are focused on our annual pilgrimage to the FileMaker Developer Conference (DevCon). This year the entire MightyData crew will descend on the city of [...]

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