Apr 25, 2025 · 1 min read · 從王安實驗室 Wang Laboratories 發蹟到 Nashoba Systems 公司的創立 FileMaker 的歷史可以追溯至 1980 年代初期，由四位在麻省洛威爾王安實驗室 Wang Laboratories 工作的工程師共同開創：Spec Bowers、Alan Albert、Dan Chadwick 與 Jega Arulpragasam 。當時這四人在王安實驗室內部希望開發新產品，但由於公司內部的政治文化和限制，他們難以施展抱負 。1982 年，隨著 IBM PC 問世，他...
Join discussionApr 6, 2025 · 22 min read · Markdown is used widely in programming, documentation, content creation, GitHub, and lots of other areas in tech. One of the most popular Markdown editors is Obsidian, a note taking app with an interesting graph view that shows how all of your notes ...
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Mar 10, 2025 · 8 min read · Web viewers in FileMaker Pro are a great way to extend the platform and create new UI components that would otherwise be impossible. The results can be extremely powerful, but working with web viewers and writing the code in FileMaker Pro can be a hu...
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Dec 14, 2024 · 5 min read · Recently I needed to upload some data from a local FileMaker database to a REST API as part of a migration. FileMaker’s Insert from Url script step uses curl requests for sending data to another API, and anyone who’s used it knows the struggle of esc...
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Nov 9, 2024 · 3 min read · Last week, Meta released the LLama3.2-vision models, adding image recognition to the existing v3.2 text models. GenAI with image-to-text has been out for a while now, but what’s new here is just how optimized and lightweight the models are. The small...
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Oct 21, 2024 · 5 min read · In just the last year or so, nearly every app and web service has integrated some form of AI into their product. Even many development platforms like FileMaker now include LLMs for building custom solutions with AI features. And for older versions, y...
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Sep 22, 2024 · 5 min read · Web Viewers in FileMaker Pro are like an escape hatch. When you hit the limits of the native FMP platform, you can always extend it with a web viewer to add new functionality. You can add some really cool features to FileMaker with a web viewer and a...
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Sep 8, 2024 · 1 min read · Choropleth maps are similar to heat maps, but with regions defined by geometry, rather than a grid. These maps are useful for displaying aggregate values for each region, like census or voting totals, average income or home cost per state, and other ...
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Aug 24, 2024 · 7 min read · FileMaker Pro's layout design tools are top-notch. Between Form View, List View, Sub-Summary Parts, and Table View, you can build just about any type of UI you want... EXCEPT Grid Layouts! Yes, there are some workarounds you can do with multiple copi...
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Aug 3, 2024 · 5 min read · OpenAI’s Assistants allow developers to add a ChatGPT-like AI chat to other apps and websites. I’ve been using the Assistant API quite a bit lately in Appsmith, and I wanted to see if I could build the same type of integration in my original go-to lo...
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