Recently we’ve been thinking about how we can better monitor the collection of systems that we manage. These can be client servers with very diverse configurations, access, or functions. Additionally, we have our own array of systems, almost as diverse as our clients’.

As an aid to improving the security of your server, Fail2ban is an open source component that checks for signs of abusive activity in your logs, and when these are detected, blocks an address (or possibly a subnet) for a given period of time. In May of  ’13 I blogged about how to set up […]

To describe this next technique I came up with my own acronym, and I call it "NoSSR", which stands for Not Only Sub-Summary Reports. The goal of this blog post is to show you a way to build and deliver similar results but in a statically defined way. Another way to put it is to […]

There are a number of ways of working with JSON data in FileMaker. At least two typical ones are: Custom Functions based parsing & encoding using a WebViewer & JavaScript

A new version of our free bBox FileMaker plug-in is now available. Some of the changes since the last release are: better support for Python results, in particular lists & sets curl, sort, bash, and grep commands now allow up to 7 parameters better handling of invalid parameters to FileRead and PasteboardGet functions added the […]

Various times I've needed to do some quick summaries of how a given server and its databases were being used.

A new version of our free bBox FileMaker plug-in is now available. Some of the changes since the last release I blogged about are: new fm.executesql Python function additional types when converting to/from Python new bBox_FileWrite, bBox_FileSymlink, and bBox_FileRead functions

When you’ve been using FIleMaker as long as I have, you know we’ve done all kinds of crazy things to get image masks to work on our buttons. Here’s how I went about implementing Button Image Masks in FileMaker 13.

As part of a shell script I’m cooking up, one of the required tasks is to list all currently hosted database files on a Mac OS based FileMaker server. This may get deployed over multiple servers, and I want to keep it as simple and trouble free as possible.

It's FileMaker Developer Conference 2014 this week, with 8 Beez in San Antonio for DevCon. We're studying new development techniques from FileMaker Inc. and our industry peers, sharing a few methods of our own and even riding a few mechanical bulls at a real live cattle ranch! Several members of Beezwax’s development team are featured presenters, and several more are hosting and facilitating Unconference Workshop sessions.

Introduction I hope that since our previous blog post you have been exploring the possibilities created by FileMaker’s Perform Script on Server (PSoS). This article is a continuation of the PSoS discussion and includes more cool things you can do with it, specifically running database imports on FileMaker Server.