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Marvelous Optimization #4 – Optimized Again

Posted by HOnza, 27 January 2012 -

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filemaker, custom function and 4 more...

Last September I wrote an article about a custom function that I optimized to evaluate hundreds times faster. At the end of the article, I challenged my readers and myself by claiming that the already optimized custom function can be optimized even further....

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Marvelous Optimization #3 – Faster Imports

Posted by HOnza, 12 December 2011 -

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This example demonstrates that even a single-step script can be optimized. You just have to think a little bit out of the box…

I was showing this as a surprise in my session Marvelous Optimizations at Pause On Error [x] London...

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Marvelous Optimization #2

Posted by HOnza, 11 November 2011 -

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video, scripting, Pause On Error and 2 more...

The second example I was showing in my session Marvelous Optimizations at Pause On Error [x] London 2011 was the script for selecting Random Set of Records. I found this example in the FileMaker...

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Marvelous Optimization #1

Posted by HOnza, 11 November 2011 -

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scripting, Pause On Error, video and 2 more...

This is the first example I was showing in my session Marvelous Optimizations at Pause On Error [x] London 2011. I already wrote about this optimization some time ago. It’s the one that led me to unveil the Marvelous Optimization...

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Debugging Scripts by Writing to Event.log - Secret Script Step Revealed

Posted by HOnza, 17 October 2011 -

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FileMaker, Server, Scripting and 2 more...

This is a fresh story of me spending hours trying to fix a technical issue and accidentally revealing a gold nugget. A few days ago one of my nightly server-side scripts stopped working without any apparent reason. But when I tried to run the script in FileMaker Pro it worked just fine. I really needed a way to debug the script on the server.

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Random Set of Records (optimized)

Posted by HOnza, 29 September 2011 -

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optimization, scripting

I noticed that one of the articles updated in the official FileMaker Knowledge Base on September 23, 2011 was explaining how to select a random set of records in a FileMaker database. I was wondering how fast the currently recommended technique...

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Custom Function Optimized to Evaluate Hundreds Times Faster

Posted by HOnza, 14 September 2011 -

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FileMaker, Custom function and 1 more...

Two weeks ago I wrote an article about a FileMaker custom function I needed to preprocess some data imported from the web. I used this custom function in an auto-enter calculation to immediately preprocess the data while being imported. I created a server-side script that...

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FileMaker Custom Function for HTML Entities

Posted by HOnza, 14 September 2011 -

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FileMaker, Custom function

I needed to decode HTML encoded text in FileMaker. I thought this must have been done many times before, so I tried to search for a suitable custom function at BrianDunning.com and FMFunctions.com. After checking few functions I found one that seemed pretty good...

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5 reasons for not attending FileMaker DevCon

Posted by HOnza, 18 July 2011 -

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To attend or not to attend? That’s the question I am asking myself every year since 2002 when I attended my first FileMaker DevCon. I have attended 8 DevCons so far, and skipped one. I have identified the following 5 possible reasons for not attending:

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Mac OS X 10.7 Lion – Upgrade or Wait?

Posted by HOnza, 15 July 2011 -

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FileMaker, Mac, Upgrade and 2 more...

Everyone is excited about Lion. Even though many new features on Mac OS X 10.7 are giving us improvements we kept asking for since 10.1, Apple has again succeeded in giving all the new features the strong essence of innovation that makes us unable to hesitate to install and try Lion out as soon as we are able to.
But we are also afraid. What if some...

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