FileMaker as Rapid Development Environment

One of the things I always like about FileMaker is how you can quickly you develop new features. It’s surely the fastest application development environment going around these days. For the last week, all of my development time has been in BaseElements, fixing a...

BaseElements 3.0.1 Released

I’ve just posted a .1 release for BaseElements 3. There are a bunch of the usual fixes in this version to various UI and data issues. Full details are on the Version History page. There are two notable changes though. Firstly, I’m url encoding the...

Detecting maximised windows in FileMaker

I had a feature request for BaseElements that to me sound perfectly reasonable : When you’re creating a new window by holding down the option key, can you put it a few pixels below and to the left of the current window in the exact same way the “New...

Back from DevCon

I’ve arrived back from San Diego after our 15 day flight direct into Melbourne. Sorry did I say 15 day, I meant 15 hour flight. Although it does seem like that at times. We had a great conference, it was very successful for us in terms of getting BaseElements...