If you go looking for a FileMaker script step called Perform Script on Server on Server, you are not going to find it.

Rome FileMaker Week, held from October 9-11, features presentations by Beezwax’s Vincenzo Menanno and Fabio Bosisio. Topics include creating iOS widgets using Javascript and the powerful ‘Local File’ technique for enhancing FileMaker development. Beezwax sponsors the event, emphasizing training, sharing, and enjoyment within the community.

Christos Savva from Beezwax presents at the Bay Area FileMaker Developer Meetup on integrating Python with FileMaker. He'll highlight use cases in data analytics, IT automation, and AI + ML. Attendees will learn integration methods, and see an example FileMaker integration, bzPython-FM.

We all use third party services, things like Stripe for payments, Sendgrid for email or Sentry for error reporting. Those services offer to solve some of our engeneering problems in exchange for money. Most of the time they are very convenient to use, as rolling your own solution would take considerable time and effort, and […]

Dreamforce was always a bit of a disruption for me as a San Franciscan—traffic, closed roads, did I mention traffic? This year, instead of sitting in my car waiting to inch forward, I shared a Waymo to get around The City, and experienced Dreamforce firsthand. As a marketer, I was eager to see how Salesforce […]

In this post I’ll share the most critical plugins I use in Vim in my day to day as a web developer. The plugins I just can’t live without, as well as some bonus nice-to-have plugins. I use regular Vim, not Neovim, but I think all of my plugins will also work in Neovim. My […]

As conference speakers at Reconnect.Brisbane, Katherine Russell and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present two sessions: • AI with FileMaker 2024: Get More Out of Your Data and Apps • The Collaborative Journey: Evolving Through Code, Teams, and Technology

I’m reading A Philosophy of Software Design, by John K. Ousterhout, a professor of computer science at Stanford University and the creator of the Tcl (pronounced “tickle”) programming language. According to this other review he has almost two decades of real world software experience, so he seems to know a thing or two about software […]

React’s useReducer hook is one of the most complex, as well as one of the most elegant. It allows you to group a bunch of individual states together and gives you a very organized, safe, predictable, and easy to debug way to change and interact with that state. The problem is, a lot of people […]

When I was a kid, my favorite video game was Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. When the game loaded, there was a quote: There is no knowledge that is not power I always found that quote interesting, so it stuck with me even though I didn’t fully understand it. It sounded cool 🙂 The original quote […]

In React-land, this is a pretty common problem: You have two useState variables, and when something happens, both variables must change, at once. The key problem here being the “at once” part. You see, in React all state is asynchronous, so if we simply do: We have no warrantee that state 2 is