DevCon 2007 Closing Session
5:30-ish PM…the room is packed and people settle in.
Ryan Rosenberg MCs the session. On the stage sits Chris Crim (CC), Jon Tatcher (JT), Clay Makel (CM), Eric Jacobsen (EJ). Q & A session follows. Most of these questions were submitted ahead of time and preselected by the panel and projected overhead for the audience to follow:
Disclaimer: I was blogging as fast as I could, please forgive any inadvertent errors or omissions. Where I have I not been able to quote verbatim, I have tried to paraphrase as best as I could without losing essential information. I have also tried to attribute the answers to the proper panel member. I may have gotten some of those wrong too. Drop me a line if you catch any omissions or see anything that needs correcting. I’ll do my best to keep this accurate.
Q. If i run a backup in FMS 9 and then copy that folder of backed up databases, are those database “complete” exact replicas of the live databases at the point of backup?
A. [Yes]
Q. Date fields stored internally as integers
A. Everything is stored as text…the calc engine will do type promotion….could use GetAsNumber() function explicitly. (CM)
Dispatches from DevCon 2007
We are back in theme-park country of Orlando, Florida. This year, DevCon returns to the Grande Lakes Marriott in Orlando, (10 minutes from Sea World). If you were lucky enough to get a room at the JW Marriott or the Ritz, the conference is conveniently right in the hotel. Corn Walker, Steve Ritchie and I made it this year from Proof. Haven’t run into Steven Blackwell or Peter Vinogradov (fellow fmCollective contributors) yet.
Day 1
Opening Session Snippets & Highlights
8:30 AM
Dominique Goupil opens. “Biggest DevCon todate…1300+ attendees…(Bubble Charts are back)…”
“We play in the Enterprise…but we are not pretending to be what we are not…still focused on sweet-spot…workgroups…strategically very important for us…The big thing with FileMaker 9 is seamless connectivity…making easy to extend FileMaker to IT…integrate more than ever…important to satisfy IT/web [integration]…bridging the gap, partnership with MySQL.”