I was getting frustrated at some of the niggling java problems with the Filemaker Server Admin Console over the last few months. These have been coming and going, apparently without change to the server environments that the problems were observed.
At the moment, the three machines I’ve observed the issues are running fine. Very strange.
When the […]

I updated the example shell script for creating OS X archives directly from FileMaker Server tonight:
http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=27
This mod includes a small mod that expresses the full path of the afp_mount command used to mount remote sharepoints.
The script is a modified version of a couple of working scripts I currently have in action, so I know they […]

In Script Extractor I uploaded my quick and dirty utility to “pretty print” scripts extracted from a FileMaker DDR XML file.
FileMaker 9 broke that last year.
I figured there was some change to the DDR and I would get to it when I had a spare few moments. Well, lots of wasted spare few moments meant […]

I bumped into this article today from the creator of Things, a Getting Things Done (GTD) application.
In Albert’s Design MasterClass, I mentioned how we spent 3 days on one thing.
In the Things article above, this guy shows 38 samples of a single dialog box that he tried:

And then you realised that this is only a […]

Response to Darrin’s comments in the previous post:

robfm » What’s
up with HSB?: “When you change the RGB profile to your
Display Profile, notice the numeric values for the color
change back to what you first entered but the ‘visual color’
does not.”

Great […]

This is more of a gripe that I need to get out than a useful contribution to the FileMaker community. And I’m going to use some laymen descriptions that are possibly less than technically correct!
In Off Colour I mentioned my frustration with the limitation of the standard FileMaker Colour Picker in either 88 or 256 […]