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		<title>Timely reminder</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=210</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I became aware of some weirdness in the databases of a colleague&#8217;s client today. They were puzzled by corruptions going on &#8211; and there were definitely some strange things happening on the server.
They had spent the previous night rebuilding databases, exporting/importing and so on. Not pretty, but had to be done. But this morning, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compulsory reading for long time FileMaker developers</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=206</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new version of FileMaker is out. Woo! Hoo!
If you want to get a feel for the size of this update, read the following page slowly and thoroughly, following all of the links.
FileMaker 12 new features&#65279;
But make sure you have a clear day ahead of you before you do it.
And then you will need a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scary, Nasty Shell scripts</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=201</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague, let&#8217;s call him Bob (because that&#8217;s his name) sent me an e-mail today advising me that his FileMaker Server schedule that launches the shell script I wrote about in Creating time stamped archives &#8211; FileMaker Server on OS X was failing. 
Recently, his FileMaker Server was updated to OS X 10.7 Server (Lion), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I must be in good company</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=199</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing to do with FileMaker.
I&#8217;ve used Apple since I bought a Fat Mac in 1986 and I still like them (I use Windows, too, of course). Some say I&#8217;m a &#8220;fan boy&#8221;.
Fan boy was argumentum ad hominem for putting down Apple users. 
Now it&#8217;s argumentum ad populum (argumentum ad numerum?) because there&#8217;s so many Apple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Graphic&#8221; checkboxes and light schema</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=195</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a bit anal about trying to keep my database schemas light and have been contemplating my belly button about this for the last year or so.
Light schemas are particularly important on devices like iPhones and iPads with FileMaker as well as WAN access to FileMaker databases.
One modus operandi is to throw as much of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>weird graph</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=189</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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!
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		<title>Random FileMaker Server commands</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=184</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some commands I use from time to time when &#8220;remoting&#8221; 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" [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disable your plugins</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=180</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;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&#8217; article Inside a Modern Mac Trojan. In that article, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I just love select all in complex tab controls</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=178</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<title>Fun screen redraw</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=175</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I brought up a table view in a solution recently, scrolled down a couple of times and saw this interesting effect:

I double checked &#8211; I definitely hadn&#8217;t been drinking!
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		<title>Consolidating</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=172</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the line</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=168</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I&#8217;m a bit anal when it comes down to the positions of FileMaker layout objects and windows. I like them aligned &#8220;just so&#8221;. If one object is out by a single pixel on screen, it is likely the first or second thing that I will see.
Recently, when setting up a new solution, I picked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remodelled Import dialog</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=160</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was grizzling to myself at the wasted vertical space in the FileMaker Pro import dialog box today while importing a file with lots of fields.
Despite having a big screen, I was still a bit miffed at losing 250 odd pixels at the bottom of the window that could nearly 14 more data rows into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mac App store</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=156</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This could be interesting.
Apple is setting up a store to sell applications for Mac OS X in the same way as has, very successfully for the iOS platform.
I think it will be a hit for many reasons. Some will be:

convenience of application discovery for users
convenience of installation
anticipated downward price pressure on the cost of applications
ease [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Hemisphere icons &#8211; FileMaker 11</title>
		<link>http://www.sumware.net/robfm2/?p=154</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to make these two objects the same (largest) height using the grow widget:

Hmmm, I wonder which way it is going to grow?

Looking at the icon, the red one will grow upwards, won&#8217;t it?
I&#8217;m on the wrong side of the planet, obviously, because they grow downwards, just like all other versions of FileMaker  [...]]]></description>
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