FileMakery, Part I
I have been following Steven Blackwell’s post and comments to it with keen interest. It touches on a pattern of FileMaker polemics I have been mulling over myself. There is a certain tension in the FileMaker community that is often framed in terms of competing philosophies: geek vs. regular-joe, theory versus practice, technical versus non-technical, relational design versus flat design and so on. It is the same tension that has some complaining that FileMaker Pro 8 is still not a sufficiently serious developer tool, and yet others lamenting how FileMaker has become too complex–that it has lost its way because it is now much more difficult to use.
June 14, 2006 | Filed Under Op-ed | 3 Comments