Getting Started with Design 2: Type

Getting Started with Design 2: Type

Many developer types are confused about the entire topic of typography. What’s the big deal? If you can read it, it’s working, right? Not necessarily. In part 2 of the “Getting Started with Design” series, we will explore what makes type so...
Double-keying: We Have Penicillin

Double-keying: We Have Penicillin

If you were to ask me what’s the most common source of pain for new, first-time clients, I can say unequivocally that it’s double-keying – the practice of entering the same piece of information in more than one location (e.g. two different Excel...
New Skin: A Case Study

New Skin: A Case Study

What happens when your client does not like the look and feel you have created in your FileMaker database? You have little choice but to give them something better suited to their sensibilities. When faced with just such a problem, here’s how we solved it. The...
The Tragedy of Comic Sans

The Tragedy of Comic Sans

In what may be the definitive final argument in the Comic Sans wars (those of you who attended my FileMaker DevCon session know what I’m on about), Pixartprinting via Sara Boboltz of Huffington Post have given us an infographic that shows the true economic and...
Dead Man’s Curve

Dead Man’s Curve

Learn how to avoid a common mistake growing businesses often make. Dead Man’s Curve, it’s no place to play Dead Man’s Curve, you best keep away Dead Man’s Curve, I can hear ’em say Won’t come back from Dead Man’s Curve Jan and...