Author: Beezwax Team

FileMaker/Web integration architecture design

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, FileMaker

[Authored by Ian]

This was the first of several articles around 2009 on designing and implementing FM/Web integrations. Some methods are outdated, but we’ve kept them on our blog because we like some of the general approaches described.

One of the basic questions when considering a FM/Web hybrid solution is how FM and the Web will relate to each other as clients, servers, or peers1. Each possible architecture has characteristic strengths and weaknesses.

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FMCakeMix : A FileMaker driver for CakePHP

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, FileMaker

[Authored by Alex_g]

[01/04/15 – Editor’s note: Beezwax no longer maintains FMCakeMix, but the open source project became maintained by Atsushi Matsuo. You may find more information, and his contact info on the FMCakeMix GitHub project.]

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FMPRoRHTTP, or, making FileMaker interface with Rails over HTTP

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, FileMaker

[Authored by Ian]

I’ve been doing work on a couple projects integrating Rails with FileMaker Pro (FMP) over HTTP. There are a few different FMP features and plugins the FMP developers use to connect to Rails, none of which I truly grok. Notwithstanding my lack of FMP knowledge, I wanted to write-up what I expect from FMP as an HTTP client, and what I think would be neat to see.

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Never write a render_foo method again

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Ruby on Rails, Web Development

[Authored by Ian]

I’ve probably written a hundred render_not_found methods in my life as a Rails dev. Usually they just render a static file under /public, and maybe, if I’m feeling nice, give an XML response. No more!

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Setting the Commit Author to Pair Programmers’ Names in Git

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Web Development

[Authored by Sam]

In beezwax’s webdev division we generally work in pairs, but our commit logs didn’t used to show this. We wouldn’t bother to reconfigure the git author every time we sat down with a new pair so our git log only recorded one of the programmers’ names. Bryan Helmcamp has a nice script for setting your git commit author in pair programming situations. Here’s another one which works interactively.

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Remote Pair Programming: Part II: Sharing the server

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Web Development

[Authored by Sam]

[01/04/15 – Editor’s note: This post was written in 2008. In 2015 we don’t use this “reverse ssh tunnel” method much anymore, but the technique is still interesting.]

In my last post I described how to use reverse ssh tunnels and screen -x to setup a remote pair programming environment.

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Remote Pair Programming: How we do it

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Web Development

[Authored by Sam]

[01/04/15 – Editor’s note: This post was written in 2008. In 2015 we don’t use this “reverse ssh tunnel” method much anymore, but the technique is still interesting.]

There’s a lot of talk about remote pair programming, but the fact is it can be a pain to set up.  Using iChat screen sharing is a popular method, but can feel a little cludgy, and doesn’t work for developers running Linux. Here’s another method using reverse ssh tunnels and screen -x we use a lot at Beezwax.
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Alternative FMP/Rails Integration: External SQL sources

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, FileMaker, Ruby on Rails, Techniques, Web Development

[Authored by Ian]

In my last post, I described my preferred methodology for integrating Rails and FMP. In this post, I’ll discuss an alternative technique using FMP’s external SQL sources functionality. Since IANAFMPD (I am not a FileMaker Pro Developer), I’ll skip the implementation details and just cut to when it’s an appropriate solution.

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FileMaker Pro/Rails integration methodology

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, FileMaker

[Authored by Ian]

Here’s a synopsis of my findings on integrating Rails with FMP.

Goals:

  • allow two-way data transmission between FileMaker Pro (FMP) and Rails
  • minimize development time required for both FMP and Rails
  • accommodate as many clients (which may be another application written with FMP, Rails, or anything else) as possible

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A Use For Git’s Post-Commit Hook

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Testing, Web Development

[Authored by Sam]

I love git and I love to be lazy, so lately I’ve been playing with git hooks.

Git’s default pre-commit hook is really handy, but today I’m in more of a post-commit kind of mood.  Like all git’s hooks it comes with an example script.

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