UPDATE: 2013-09-03 For those of you who find all this stuff a little too confusing or too much work, you may want to consider a recently announced FileMaker database/web service just came through my email box. The application is called Mail List Maker, is built in FileMaker Pro and offers a full fledge email management system that […]
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ScreenSteps vs MacSnapper
July 5, 2010 
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UPDATE: 2014-07-31 – ScreenSteps has gone to a subscription model. Following in the footsteps of Adobe, FileMaker and others, presumably, they are trying to set themselves to be a sustainable enterprise going forward. Their pricing is quite high for individuals, as their target market now seems to be corporations, rather than mom and pop’s software developers. Their […]
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99 Bottles of Beer – in FileMaker 11
July 5, 2010 Comments Off on 99 Bottles of Beer – in FileMaker 11
A while back I took a PHP course. The instructor pointed out a website that had demonstrations of the old song ’99 Bottles of Beer’ as implemented in hundreds of different programming languages (1,342 different languages when I looked). 99 Bottles of Beer is a good beginners programming exercise, because it involves a loop, with […]
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Minor FileMaker Security Breakdown
June 21, 2010 Comments Off on Minor FileMaker Security Breakdown
Note: 2012-07-14 I just tested this security ‘workaround’ in FileMaker 12 and it continues to exist. Open a File The Admin user launches a file. Using Admin level access The Admin user is set to [Full Access] privileges. Full Access means that the user can add/edit/delete any of the fields, scripts, layouts, users, privilege sets […]
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Processing Indicator in FileMaker 11
June 13, 2010 1 Comment
A processing indicator is something that FileMaker has long needed. Various developers have come up with different solutions to this missing feature. With FileMaker 11’s ability to create charts and graphs, finally there is a fairly easy built-in method to doing a processing indicator. What follows is a description of a fairly portable approach to […]
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