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PHP Debugging & FileMaker Custom Functions Do Exist

May 25, 2011

I have just read Anders Monsen’s post A Simple Debug Function for PHP at the Mightydata’s blog. My first thought was this is similar to what I have been doing since I learned PHP a few years ago. But then I discovered something very bad about myself…

Blog Moved

April 27, 2011

I have just finished switching my blog from Posterous to a self-hosted WordPress.org based site. You may have noticed I mentioned this idea on Twitter some time ago. I had mainly three reasons for this change: Posterous did not let me insert JavaScript based widgets, such as live-updating Twitter stream WordPress has a really nice [...]

Infinite Hierarchy

March 29, 2011

Last week Hal Gumbert mentioned on Twitter that he was “working on a FileMaker quote to display and edit a BOM ( Build of Materials ) that can go 9 levels deep.” Probably the most efficient and user friendly way to implement this is using a tree view with collapsible/expandable items. This is nothing new [...]

FileMaker Script Execution Time Cut From 5 Hours To 6 Seconds

March 17, 2011

Sometimes, not often, I accidentally achieve results that look too marvelous to be real. But they are. Just like in this case. Last week I assigned Petr, our internal system developer, the task to optimize one server-side script. The script recently started taking over 8 hours to run and reaching the expiration limit we have [...]

Per-Database FileMaker Plug-Ins

February 24, 2011

Hal Gumbert (@campsoftware) has started an interesting topic on Twitter today: “I would love to include FileMaker plugins IN the FileMaker file within the ‘File Options’ dialog. Should have ‘File Plugins’, ‘App Plugins’, and ‘Computer Plugins’. ‘File Plugins’ would be stored IN db.” This topic quickly turned to be full of ideas and opinions. Way more [...]

FileMaker PHP Error 7 (Running Out Of Memory) resolved

February 23, 2011

Yesterday I got so stuck with an issue that I wanted to send a question to a mailing list. But (un)fortunately I sent it from a wrong e-mail address so it did not reach the list. Then, before discovering that I used the wrong e-mail address I actually resolved the issue, so now I can [...]

Designing Buttons in Pages [updated]

January 28, 2011

When developing a software (FileMaker solutions, iOS apps in my case) we often need nice looking user interface elements such as buttons. I’m not sure about you, but I do not always have time to wait for a designer to create them, neither do I want to learn how to use a professional graphic editor. Now [...]

24U Net Remote Demo video

January 19, 2011

I have recently uploaded a new demo video of 24U Net Remote to the Net Remote’s website. It’s the best video I have ever created, so I wanted to show off See how you can use 24U Net Remote to conrol websites, desktop applications, FileMaker solutions, and external devices from your iPhone or iPad… jwplayer(“jwplayer-2″).setup({flashplayer: “http://honza.24usoftware.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/12/files/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/player/player.swf”, [...]

First Lessons from Developing for FileMaker Go

January 13, 2011

In the old times before FileMaker Go, before tab control, before anchors, before multiple windows per file, in the age of 13-inch CRT monitors, the most frequent challenges I was facing when developing FileMaker solutions were: How to fit all the necessary information into such small space What the hack to put in that weird empty area [...]

Indicate Progress in FileMaker Go and 11

July 29, 2010

When I was preparing a sample file for the How To Prevent Support Calls video I wanted to make it as cool as possible, so I decided to optimize it for FileMaker Go. I quickly discovered that I need a plug-in free alternative for the progress dialog. I wanted something nice looking while still as easy to [...]

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