YouTube Roundup

My previous post led me to YouTube, which reminded me of a few screen casts I did for O’Reilly when FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual was released. I could only find two on line, but I thought I’d link them here in case anyone finds them useful.

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July 17, 2008 | Filed Under Syndicated | Leave a Comment 

By Popular Demand

Many of you may not know that in order to be accepted as a speaker at the FileMaker Developers Conference, you have to submit a “speaker demo,” which is a short self-made video of yourself presenting some topic.

I had to do this for the first time last year, and my demo video was a bit of a hit among my Phoenix FileMaker friends. I wasn’t accepted as a speaker in 2007, so maybe the powers that be didn’t think I had exactly the right idea.

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July 17, 2008 | Filed Under Syndicated | Leave a Comment 

Getting FileMaker / PHP / MySQL to “Play Nice”

I have a client for whom I recently installed FileMaker 9 Server Advanced on a brand new dedicated Windows 2003-based server. It is running fine -- I was even able to easily work around the usual installation problem where the FMS installer cannot see IIS. All was good...This morning, I attempted to install an open source PHP/MySQL-based bulletin board application called Simple Machines Forum ("
July 9, 2008 | Filed Under IIS, MySQL, PHP, Syndicated | Leave a Comment