Read the follow up to this blog post at What Are Your Imports Waiting For?

Beezwax was a sponsor and participant in the first ever d3.unconf in San Francisco this weekend. This “Unconference” event was created as a one-day gathering of data visualization practitioners, centered on d3.js, a powerful and flexible JavaScript data visualization library. Here’s info about the conference, examples of how we use d3 at Beezwax, and pointers to learning more about d3.js.

Working with older Java applets with Java 7 Update 51.

Enable client statistics logging to better monitor a system’s usage.

Use FileMaker 13’s popover object to create more user-friendly pop-up menus

Sometimes a FileMaker user wants to stop things, right in the middle of a process! Little do they know that a time-consuming script has only looped over 10 percent of the records, or set flags in half of them, etc. What to do now? Well, what if there were a simple way to allow the user to cancel the script even in the middle of performing its task, then have another script take over and clean up as if nothing ever happened? If that is what you need then you are in the right place.

At its core, InspectorPro v4 is a FileMaker database. The previous version, Inspector Pro v3 was originally architected as FileMaker Pro 7 file, and continuously remodeled as we moved all the way through FileMaker Pro 11. InspectorPro 4 on the other hand was rebuilt from the ground up as a FileMaker 12 solution. I wanted to tell you more about the approach I used, including extensive use of the new ExecuteSQL feature. Hopefully it will give you some ideas as you start to re-think, and ultimately rebuild, solutions in FileMaker 12.

In this post, we'll learn two lightweight techniques that give full control of button appearance and behavior: the conditional overlay and the conditional clear. These techniques provide the methods needed to successfully resolve the conflict between 'interactive formatting' and 'semantic misinformation' posed in our previous Button. Up. blog post.

We needed to quickly know how often various databases were being opened on a client’s server. If you have Access logging enabled and are using a Mac OS based system, this shell snippet will give you a nice summary of how often each database has been opened: awk -F” ‘{ if($3 == ” opening database […]

Improve security on a Mac OSX based FileMaker Server with Fail2Ban.

I was trying to test out some HTTP post transactions with the curl command, and things weren’t working. One glitch was due to how the curl command parses its options. All characters, including spaces can be significant, so “-X POST” is not the same as “-XPOST”. This difference might be hidden if calling from the […]