I see Nick at Goya has extended the 30% discount voucher for BaseElements 3 (full and upgrades) until the end of Devcon (about 5 more days from the time I’m writing this. 30% off for a short while
BaseElements is the sort of program that every FileMaker developer – intermediate and advanced – should be using.
Go [...]

Hizuke
Many years ago, I saw a trick from Kevin Frank for entering dates in a system agnostic way (http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=6)[look to the second post in this blog for a tale of the good old days].
The trick is to enter dates in FileMaker’s Japanese format, which is YYYY+M+D.
Brilliant! If you are inserting a calculated date into a [...]

I’m quite enthusiastic about the application of FileMaker Go on iPad and iPhone. FileMaker Go is very capable and the interface is very faithful to it’s desktop cousin. However, there are key differences between a small touch interface and the [typically] larger desktop interface, which became obvious after a short time trying out many of [...]

Well this just landed in my iTunes.
Downloaded and connected immediately to some of my databases successfully. I must say, it is very impressive seeing
This is very cool, indeed.

This might help someone, one day.
I use Get(ActiveModifierKeys) in many scripts to adjust their behaviour.
Recently, I noticed that my scripts weren’t behaving as expected when I held down modifier keys, yet, I couldn’t see anything obvious. So I knocked up a quick file with a test loop that displays the currently pressed modifier key:

That script [...]