I had a bit of a laugh the other day.
I opened a little FileMaker file I use to track receipts and the chart at the top of the screen looked like this:

I think I stared at it for nearly a minute trying to work out why it looked like that, before the forehead smack!

Some commands I use from time to time when “remoting” into various computers.
Put here to give me a convenient place to copy/paste from!

(64 bit)
chdir “C:\Program Files (x86)\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Database Server”

(32 bit)
chdir “C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Database Server”

list open files
.\fmsadmin list files -uaccount -ppassword

close a file
.\fmsadmin close file “filewin:/C:/Program Files/FileMaker/FileMaker Server/Data/Databases/Sample/FMServer_Sample.fp7″ [...]

I don’t really buy into scare mongering that often passes for journalism that we see these days. I do, however, like to note what is topical and try to discern how much truth there is behind the headlines.
With this in mind, I was reading Krebs’ article Inside a Modern Mac Trojan. In that article, it [...]

I brought up a table view in a solution recently, scrolled down a couple of times and saw this interesting effect:

I double checked – I definitely hadn’t been drinking!

Consolidating
I recently had the opportunity to overhear a discussion of a bunch of colleagues about consolidating one .fp7 file into another. You might do this after converting old FileMaker 5 or 6 files to FileMaker 7-11 format.
I thought I would, ahem, consolidate the discussion into a simplified diagram.
While consolidation offers benefits, there are quite [...]