{"protected":false,"rendered":" There are many cases where FileMaker’s scripting isn’t always the best tool for the job and where a language like Ruby can bring a lot of power to your FileMaker development. The following is a description of a simple technique for using ruby scripts from within a FileMaker solution without the use of a plugin. I’ve found this technique useful for employing regular expressions for complex text parsing, making web requests to work with web APIs, and for parsing and generating XML and other serialized data structures. Ruby has a wealth of great libraries for doing anything you can imagine and is just plain fun to write. \n"}

{"protected":false,"rendered":" ValueCount ( FilterValues ( lst ; value ) )   Ben Miller and I came up with this tiny little function to tell us how many times a specific value occurs in a list. It’s smart enough to consider full values (carriage-return delimited), rather than partial text strings. \n"}

{"protected":false,"rendered":" As conference speakers at dotfmp Berlin 2024, Fabio Bosisio and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present two sessions: \n• Chatbot and AI in FileMaker 2024 \n• ‘Til Technical Debt Do Us Part \n"}

{"protected":false,"rendered":" On July 11, 2024, the Claris Community Live event will showcase the new semantic search features in Claris FileMaker 2024. Will Miro from Beezwax will join the discussion, demonstrating how AI can facilitate natural language queries and provide valuable insights from existing data. Join us to uncover the latest possibilities and capabilities. \n"}

{"protected":false,"rendered":" When you run Recovery (File->Recover…) on a FileMaker database file, everything checked and any errors are logged in the Recovery.log file. In a large file you may get lots of output however, so sifting through this in a text editor isn’t the greatest option. A common technique is to import the log into FileMaker or Excel, […] \n"}

{"protected":false,"rendered":" As conference speakers at dotfmp Berlin, Christos Savva, Fabio Bosisio and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present three sessions: \n• Enhancing FileMaker with Python \n• What do you do with all this historical data in your app? \n• Elements for Building Great Solutions \n"}

{"protected":false,"rendered":" Various times I’ve needed to do some quick summaries of how a given server and its databases were being used. On macOS and Linux we can use shell commands such as grep to get a quick summary of what’s happening on a server. \n"}

{"protected":false,"rendered":" Read the follow up to this blog post at What Are Your Imports Waiting For? FileMaker Perform Script on Server – Part II Introduction Since the release of FileMaker 13 we have been exploring a new feature called "Perform Script on Server" (PSoS) and trust me there are many cool things you can do with […] \n"}

{"protected":false,"rendered":" We’re pleased to announce two Beez who have earned the title of FileMaker 17 Certified Developer. Christopher Edwards, Senior Developer Vincenzo Menanno, Senior Developer Christopher and Vince are among the first developers to receive this designation since FileMaker 17 Certification was announced last week. \n"}

{"protected":false,"rendered":" This post is about pretty code (with examples in Ruby), plus how to get nil out of the way and be more confident. Does this code look familiar? user && user.ask_for_email \n"}

{"protected":false,"rendered":" Solving an Old Problem When you consider how to keep information safe, you might first imagine a team of hackers in a dank basement typing and clicking their way into your bank account. \n"}