About Mark Richman

Mark Richman is a FileMaker Certified Developer at Skeleton Key in St. Louis, MO.

Entries by Mark Richman

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 […]