One of the most valuable aspects of this year’s FileMaker Developers Conference was a far-reaching discussion of the role of design in the FileMaker world. A broad range of speakers presented an exciting new view of design as an interactive process shared by developers and users alike. This new vision of design suggests several new possibilities and poses some intriguing questions for the FileMaker community.

FileMaker DevCon 2011 is just around the corner! Make the most out of your trip and see our Top 11 Tips for DevCon '11 attendees.

In February, four of the Beez went to New York for PauseOnError, the annual winter "Unconference" gathering of FileMaker developers.

Here's an overview of our experience at the event.

 

FileMaker 11 is here! Are you ready for the next generation of the world’s most widely used, easy-to-use database?

As Platinum members of the FileMaker Business Alliance and long-term beta testers with FileMaker, we’ve been testing the new version of FileMaker for a while now and wanted to share some of what we’ve learned.

We’re extremely pleased to report that FileMaker 11 makes some core improvements for the user experience and these are what we’re going to focus on in this article. There’s a bunch of under-the-hood improvements that developers benefit from, but for now, we’ll focus on improvements for users.

A new version of our free FileMaker plug-in is now available. You can download the latest version at http://www.beezwax.net/download/bbox

This version sports the following improvements:

• bBox_AppleScript now uses UTF-16 (2 byte characters) where possible
• bBox_DoShell has improved handling of UTF-8 characters, faster processing of large amount of text
• bBox_PasteboardGet has improved handling of encoding issues, and a new UTF-16 mode
• bBox_DoScript function can now pass a text parameter to the script being called