A Look Back at 2008: A FileMaker Developer’s Experience
It's been nearly 9 months since I re-started Xgravity (an information technology firm that specializes in the design and development of custom database and Web solutions). As 2008 comes to a close, this seems like a good time to reflect on things. I thought I'd share my experiences with the FileMaker community, in the hopes that doing so might help others who are also independent developers (or
December 31, 2008 | Filed Under Syndicated | Leave a Comment
Filemaker Server Admin Console & Java 6 Troubleshooting
So it appears that FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced sometimes don't play nicely with Java 6. In the past 24 hours, this has burned me twice. First, on the server side: I'm running FileMaker Server 9 Advanced on a Windows 2003-based server. FileMaker appeared to be fully patched and showed the current version as 9.0.3.325. After installing the latest Java Runtime Engine (which is
December 30, 2008 | Filed Under Admin Console, FileMaker Server, FileMaker Server 9 Advanced, Java, Syndicated | Leave a Comment
FileMaker Pro Powers the New National Donor Memorial Web Site
It always feels good when a project that I've been working on "goes live." Not just because the project has reached that final step and there is a sense of accomplishment (although there is certainly that). No, there is something more than that. There's a certain pleasure that I get when people actually begin to use the solution that I've developed, and I can see that the solution is helping themGoogle Mapping: Single Address
After several weeks of setup, now is the time to get down to brass tacks and build an embedded Google map in FileMaker. We'll be starting with a single address. My goal is to have this work with a set of address records and change as we flip between records. We're going to start at the very beginning, so get your computers out...
CCK date fields
I have been banging my head against a problem that has to do with passing FileMaker timestamp data to Drupal CCK date fields. Then, Andy alerted me to this post. So, it turns out that CCK date fields are stored in UTC format, which explains the -5 hrs time offset I was getting. Note this is not a Drupal config issue, ergo time wasted in wrong tree.