Entries by Mark Richman
FileMaker 17: From Products to Platform–An Evolution in FileMaker Licensing
While licensing may not be as headline-grabbing as some of the newer features boasted by FileMaker 17 (I mean, how can anything compete with Master-Detail Layouts or Default Fields?), my vote for the best sleeper feature is this: FileMaker is now officially being sold as a Platform, and not as a grab-bag of different Products. […]
Join Our FileMaker St. Louis User Group: FileMaker STL
You are invited to join our local FileMaker User Group. This group is for experienced FileMaker Devs, FileMaker users who’ve poked around under the hood and want to dive into development, and anyone else who wants to learn more about FileMaker. We aim to cover general FileMaker development, advanced techniques, plugin integration, external data access, […]
Follow-up to the recent ‘FileMaker Training Series: FileMaker Server’ Web Seminar
On Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 I delivered two web seminars for FileMaker Inc. to complete their three-part series on the FileMaker Training Series for FileMaker 12. This post is my follow-up to that event, and includes links to resources I mentioned during that event, as well as a few relevant Questions & Answers I fielded […]
Using WireShark to measure FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Go Network Performance
A few brave souls hung out after my FileMaker DevCon 2011 session on Practical Techniques for Improving Application WAN Performance to see the WireShark demo. I promised to blog with step-by-step instructions or a video for how to run a WireShark capture. Here it is 🙂 First off, you need to install WireShark (or a […]
FAQ re: Practical Techniques for Improving Application WAN Performance
First of all, let me just say that I’m grateful for the awesome response to my 2011 FileMaker DevCon session on Practical Techniques for Improving Application WAN Performance. As you might expect, there were a lot of questions from attendees – both during the session and afterwards – and hardly enough time to get to […]
You Say It’s Your Birthday?
Next Friday I won’t be anywhere near my desk or my computer. Will I be taking a vacation day? No. Am I taking a personal day? Nope. I won’t be at my desk or near my computer next Friday because next Friday – July 8th, 2011 – is my 43rd birthday. At Skeleton Key, no […]
Options for Opening Hosted FileMaker Databases Quickly
I’m not usually a big fan of opening hosted FileMaker databases using ‘trigger’ files of any kind; but, the spinning beach ball I sometimes get when I don’t immediately interact with a just-launched copy of FileMaker Pro Advanced 11 ‘Quick’ Start screen has been driving me nuts. I needed a better way to get into […]