If you’re reading this post it’s probably because you’re preparing for FileMaker DevCon 2019, are signed up to attend the FileMaker Data API Training Day session, and are looking to ensure you have everything you need set up on your laptop. If so, you’re in the right place! If not, feel free to have a […]
FileMaker is in the process of moving away from the XML and PHP interfaces and replacing them with the FileMaker Data API. At the same time they’re also rebuilding the FileMaker Server admin console. One of the casualties of this process is there’s now no way to enable or disable XML or PHP from the […]
Recently we inherited a new project where FileMaker was being used to manage the content for a website, with an ODBC connection updating the MySQL database behind the site. The previous developers were using numeric IDs to link from page to page and category to category to sub-category to company etc. While this was certainly […]
This post is as much a ‘note to self’ as anything, but will hopefully help others too. Lots of our projects use RabbitMQ as a queueing mechanism, and since we all use Max OS X there are occasionally times when we need to restart the Rabbit MQ service – particularly on Mojave it seems to […]
We do a lot of work integrating FileMaker into web applications. All of our new projects use the Symfony framework for this, and as a consequence the Doctrine DBAL / ORM. We’ve written Doctrine drivers for both the PHP API and the Data API which makes development much quicker (and swapping clients from one to […]