File Permissions Error and PSOS

Working together today during our weekly dev meeting, the Portage Bay team ran across a slightly obscure requirements issue that took little bit of …

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FileMaker 16 and cURL

One of the more exciting new features of FileMaker 16 is the adoption of the cURL library within the “Insert from URL” script step. Using cURL as a …

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A Perfect Pair – ExecuteSQL and PSOS

This is a quick tip about how PSOS can vastly improve performance of the ExecuteSQL script step.  Recently we received feedback on one of our …

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FileMaker Performance Optimization

“97% of the time, Premature optimization is the root of all evil”

I think I first read this quote of Tony Hoare in McConnell’s “Code …

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Appended PDFs in FileMaker Go (FM16)

With the release of FileMaker 16, we have seen a great number of new and improved script steps. FileMaker 16 extended the capability of the Save as …

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Impossible Spaces in Virtual Reality

I have been fascinated with impossible places. Things like the Doctor Who Tardis, Hypercubes, and M.C. Escher’s impossible objects, lead me to …

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