ernest's blog

fmSpark/NinjaCal Road Show - Philadelphia

Ernest Koe will be in Philadelphia for another fmSpark/NinjaCal Roadshow. Come join us at the fmPUG meeting here:

Tuesday 24th March
6:00 PM to 8:00pm

414 Commerce Dr.
Suite 150
Fort Washington, PA 19034

This will be an under-the-hood session on Proof's mail-merge solution, fmSpark and their latest must-have for FileMaker developers, NinjaCal, a super-easy-to-integrate native FileMaker calendar widget. The session will cover a range of topics including scripting practices, quasi-MVC design and the object-model architecture.

fmSpark/NinjaCal Road Show - Atlanta

I'll be in Atlanta for another fmSpark/NinjaCal Roadshow. Come join us at the fmPUG meeting here:

1875 Old Alabama Road
Suite 755
Roswell, GA 30076

Tuesday 10th March
7:00 PM to 8:30pm

This will be an under-the-hood session on Proof's mail-merge solution, fmSpark and their latest must-have for FileMaker developers, NinjaCal, a super-easy-to-integrate native FileMaker calendar widget. The session will cover a range of topics including scripting practices, quasi-MVC design and the object-model architecture.

edSocialMedia Bootcamp

Proof launches edSocialMedia Bootcamp today. Come join us live on twitter (http://twitter.com/edsocialmedia).

We are streaming the session live from Montclair Kimberley Academy, NJ here:
http://www.edsocialmedia.com/bootcamptv/

FileMaker 10 changes in a nutshell

Thinking about moving to FileMaker 10? Steven Blackwell reminded me about this document,  FileMaker Pro 10 and FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced Read Me. This comes from FileMaker Inc. directly and provides some answers to commonly asked questions. The ReadMe covers the following topics related to FileMaker 10 and 10 Advanced:

CCK date fields

I have been banging my head against a problem that has to do with passing FileMaker timestamp data to Drupal CCK date fields. Then, Andy alerted me to this post. So, it turns out that CCK date fields are stored in UTC format, which explains the -5 hrs time offset I was getting. Note this is not a Drupal config issue, ergo time wasted in wrong tree.

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