FileMaker DevCon is coming up in Phoenix, Arizona this Sunday thru Thursday, July 13-17. Whether you’re at DevCon or not, listen in or call in to the FileMaker Files @ Devcon Live, the first live internet radio program coming to you directly from any FileMaker Developer Conference with live guests, FileMaker trivia, interviews and live two-way talk. Go to filemakerfiles.com to listen: Monday, July 14, and Tuesday, July 15, 1pm-2pm Mountain Standard Time, U.S. – Hopefully the shows will be available for download for those who won’t be able to tune in live (like me).
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FileMaker Pro uses Xalan (Xalan-C) as its built-in processor for XML imports and exports. That means you can use some EXSLT extensions in your import/export XSLT stylesheets. I find the nodeset-function particularly useful.
It’s so hard to believe I could ever live without ORM.
This is a quicky: If you have Windows Vista and XAMPP and your “CLI has stopped working” you need to download the PHP binaries (Windows Binaries, zip package) from php.net and replace the php_mysqli.dll in C:\xampp\php\ext with the version you just downloaded. Downloading the latest version of PHP should work just fine, even if an older version was previously installed on your system. – I know this seems weird, but it works. If you want a longer explanation, read Tengku Zahasman’s article on the same subject, with the comments. (I found the article using Google.)
Over a week ago FileMaker, Inc. announced a new product called Bento. It came as a surprise to many. In retrospect there may have been a few hints, but neither I nor anybody else I talked to interpreted them correctly. Or I over-rate things now. – Anyhow:
Geoff Coffey of Six Fried Rice has reviewed Bento. I haven’t given Bento any priority and I’ve been busy doing other things. Now I finally managed to read most of Geoff’s review (i.e. without watching his videos) and rather than going to the time and effort of writing one myself I’ve decided to just point everyone there.
So here’s a new blog. – I used to have a FileMaker blog in German. It never really got any traffic and so I stopped posting in March 2005. But I felt confident that the idea to have a FileMaker blog wasn’t bad after all. I just hadn’t chosen the right time. Let’s see if the time is right now…