I have a few scripts, including some Facter reporting “facts”, that make heavy use of FileMaker Server’s fmsadmin command. After a 14.0v4 on install on Yosemite I was puzzled to discover that one of the scripts wasn’t working.
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Introducing ‘Publish To Apple News’ – Open Source WordPress Plugin
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Community, Design, Tools, Web Development, WordPress
We’re thrilled to announce the availability of the Publish To Apple News plugin for WordPress. It’s an open source plugin for the WordPress web platform that enables publishers to push their blog and website content to News, Apple’s all-new app available with iOS 9.
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What is Dependency Injection
Posted in All, Front-end Development, Ruby on Rails, Software Design, Web Development
If you are a developer, chances are very good that you know what Object-Oriented (OO) code is. You might have also heard about OO Design Patterns, things like single responsibilities, decoupled code, and my subject here: Dependency Injection (DI).
FMAjax and FileMaker Web Viewers
Posted in All, FileMaker, JavaScript, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons, Uncategorized, Web Development
With everything that we’ve learned with our last post, Communicating with a Web Viewer in FileMaker, it makes sense to wrap up the functionality into a FileMaker module and JavaScript library.
InspectorPro 5.5 Feature List!
Posted in All, Data Analytics, Design, FileMaker, FileMaker 14, InspectorPro, News
InspectorPro 5.5 is here! With it come some great enhancements and complete support for FileMaker 14:
• Now supports new features, themes, and styles found in FileMaker 14
• New visualization gives you a quick view of referenced and unreferenced items and problems
• New streamlined database view to help you get a bird’s-eye view of your database
• Automatic detection of malformed XML or invalid characters
Communicating with a Web Viewer in FileMaker
Posted in All, FileMaker, JavaScript, Techniques
Beezwax has always been active in the FileMaker community regarding advanced use of Web Viewers. Check out these earlier posts if you’d like to learn more:
- Native Web 2.0 Controls in FileMaker 12 Layouts
- Go, JavaScript Go!
- Enable WebKit debugger in FileMaker Web Viewer
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Useful Vim Mappings
Posted in All, productivity, Tools, Unix, Vim, Web Development
A few mappings to help boost your Vim workflow.
Rotate through different line numbering settings
Switch between absolute line numbers (normal), relative numbers (based on distance from your cursor) and no numbers at all using CTRL-n:
A Web Developer’s OS
Posted in All, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Unix, Web Development
What must an Operating System do to satisfy web developers’ needs? This is a tricky question, as each person is a whole different world, so it’s impossible to have a single answer to satisfy every person.
Keep FileMaker Server Web Logs at Fixed Paths
Posted in All, FileMaker, Techniques, Web Development
If you need to scrounge through the web server’s logs in the file system, the way FileMaker Server stores these on Mac OS can be a bit annoying. You end up with a bunch of files named like this:
jQuerySF 2015 – Much more than jQuery…
Posted in All, Design, Front-end Development, JavaScript, Web Development
Attending jQuerySF 2015:
This week I had the pleasure of attending jQuerySF 2015, held in San Francisco, CA.
Despite the name of the conference, the range of web-technology topics included far more than just jQuery.
CQDF Montréal 2015 – FileMaker
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 14, InspectorPro, News
La 5e Conférence québécoise des développeurs FileMaker (CQDF) 2015: les 25, 26 et 27 mai 2015 à l’hôtel Le St-Sulpice situé dans le Vieux-Montréal. Vincenzo Menanno, Beezwax, présente:
Our Five Favorite Talks from RailsConf 2015
Posted in All, Community, Ruby on Rails
The Beezwax web dev team had a great time at RailsConf at the end of last month. The three days of the conference were packed with interesting talks, necessitating a series of painful triages each day as we selected which to attend and which to leave unseen. But now that ConFreaks has posted full video for almost all of the talks, everyone can catch up. Here are five of Shivam’s and Kevin’s favorites:
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FileMaker 14: Field Placeholder Text
Posted in All, Design, FileMaker, FileMaker 14, News, Techniques
FileMaker Pro 14 includes a new feature to add placeholder text to fields on a layout. What is placeholder text? Simply put, it is a way to put text inside a field when it is empty. This feature is useful for mobile, web and desktop users alike.
A brand new Workspace!
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 14, News, Techniques
As a FileMaker developer you probably spend a big chunk of your time writing scripts. The new Script Workspace in FileMaker 14 is going to help you in a big way. It’s a breath of fresh air and at first glance it might seem trivial in that we now have colors and we actually can have white space, but there are many other productivity improvements that lurk beneath the surface.
FileMaker 14 – Button Bars
Posted in All, Design, FileMaker, FileMaker 14, Techniques
The new Button Bar layout object provides developers with an improved method to manage a cluster of buttons that have functional and/or cosmetic similarities.
Using InspectorPro 5 with FileMaker Pro Advanced 14
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 14, InspectorPro, News, Tools & Add-ons
FileMaker 14 is here, and while the Database Design Report (DDR) hasn’t changed, here’s a “Getting Started’ walkthrough for using InspectorPro with the latest version of FileMaker Pro Advanced.
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What happens at FileMaker DevCon…
Posted in All, Beezwax News, FileMaker, FileMaker 14, InspectorPro, News
The Beezwax Team will be in Las Vegas July 20-23, 2015 for the FileMaker Developers Conference, which is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. While we still hotly debate when best to double down at blackjack, and can only hope an Elvis impersonator will insist we stay off his blue suede shoes, there is one sure bet about DevCon: It’s the place to collect a jackpot of information by attending some of the more than 70 sessions and unsessions covering the latest trends in FileMaker development.
FileMaker 14: Audio/Video Control Script Steps and Functions
Posted in All, Design, FileMaker, FileMaker 14, News, Techniques
FileMaker 14 introduces new controls available in the mobile FileMaker Go app that help to bring the media player experience in FM Go more in alignment with iOS. These changes, compatible only with FileMaker Go 14, include 3 new script steps, 3 new script triggers and 1 new calculation function. In addition, the script step Insert Quicktime has been removed (developers should use the Insert Audio/Video script step, which we have had since FileMaker 12).
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The Force “FIELD”
Posted in All, FileMaker, Techniques
For the longest time I thought field labels were something special and there was some sort of connection between the label and the field. So if you have ever created a new field and put that field on the layout with the label to the left of it. Then 10 seconds later you change your mind and decide to rename the field. Presto your label has also been renamed.
InspectorPro – Helping you find problems
Posted in All, FileMaker, InspectorPro
When you delete a field that calculations or scripts depend on, FileMaker provides great warnings.