[FX.php List] FX.php compatibility with FMS 9.0

[Dale Bengston]

Well, that's your opinion. Here's mine: It's irrelevant to my work.

To me, FileMaker is just a data pot. Over time, I use fewer and fewer  
of its bells and whistles since I'm structuring my projects to use  
one of many possible data sources. So, if I strip out all the things  
that don't exist in SQL database back-ends, I'm never going to use  
web portals or repeating fields or any scripting built into  
FileMaker. I don't even use related fields.

So, is FileMaker 9 a major release? A minor upgrade? Having been the  
marketing person at several software companies, I'm here to tell you  
it's whatever the marketing person decides to label it. The more  
agnostic I get about my data platform, the less the version matters  
on any of them.

Also, my bleeding-edge days are over. I don't expect to deploy  
anything on FileMaker 9 before a year goes by. I'm at the mercy of my  
clients' upgrade timelines. Fine with me; by then we'll be on 9.0v5  
or something, and all the major bugs will be squished.

Dale


On Jul 10, 2007, at 9:05 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> In an open source project this would increase the version number of
> something like +0.001
>
> On 7/11/07, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>> I think it deserves a new version number; there are a lot of  
>> significant
>> changes, not the least of which is the ability to create a PHP web  
>> interface
>> without knowing any PHP. For lots of people this is going to be a  
>> huge
>> improvement. I watched a demo of the PHP code generator (I forget  
>> what they
>> call it) and was impressed to see a nice little web app get  
>> created in less
>> than 2 minutes.
>>
>> They've also made some fairly significant improvements in the way  
>> that
>> FileMaker deals with SQL--not something that I'll use in the  
>> immediate
>> future, but having dealt with writing SQL queries in the past,  
>> something I'm
>> glad to see that they implemented.
>>
>> I haven't fooled with the dynamic field resizing yet, but I can  
>> see how this
>> will be useful.
>>
>> I like the ability to have multiple script windows open, to be  
>> able to group
>> scripts, to be able to hide/show groups.
>>
>> I do wish they'd put in script triggering upon field changes, but  
>> I'll have
>> to deal with plugins a while longer.
>>
>> Also, the ability to have PHP functionality in FMS as opposed to  
>> FMSA is
>> going to mean that lots of companies will be using web apps and  
>> hosting
>> their files internally--not something I as a web host am glad to  
>> see, but I
>> think it's a smart move for FMI.
>>
>> I'd be interested to hear what others think as well...
>>
>> Bob Patin
>> Longterm Solutions
>> bob at longtermsolutions.com
>> 615-333-6858
>> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2007, at 8:27 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>>
>>
>> Do you guys feel comfortable calling this version 9.0?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 8.6 sounds better to me, seeing what it does...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ggt667
>>
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