Filemaker Pro is now Claris Pro. In fact there is no more Filemaker. It’s all Claris.
Category: Development
Using Visual Studio Code with WSL at my new job is blowing my mind. :-))
I just wanted to write a quick note to say how impressed I am with Microsoft’s moves toward fostering a more neutral, pragmatic, productive, ergonomic programming environment for people to work with. It’s only been half a day, of course! π …Of my using these tools, but I didn’t know they existed and were so well integrated until today. I’m pretty impressed so far, and relieved. π It’s nice to see some things going the right way.
A tutorial for using nginx as a reverse proxy with SSL.
Great write-up, dude!!! π It helped me a lot.
My Return to (Rapid) Application Development! :-)
Good morning! π
I hope you have had a nice holiday season so far. Only New Year’s Eve left to go, from my narrow sociological and cultural perspective! What are you planning on doing for New Year’s Eve?? If you are near Jackson, Mississippi, please feel free to throw out some ideas. I would appreciate hearing about them.
So, I recently had some time away from my regular life to reflect on things and one of the things that popped into my head was how I would approach application development when I returned to my home. I found that I felt GREAT solace in the idea of going straight back to FileMaker, if it were still a thing, and then finally giving Python Django an honest shot for full-stack Web development on Linux.
I’d never really dived into Django although I’d used it several times. I couldn’t say I’d actually *built* something with Django but instead maintained or modified some Django sites. Remarkably, my exposure to it was so oblique, or maybe my head was just too full of other things going on so I couldn’t adequately appreciate it, that I never realized how awesome Django was/is as a rapid application development platform!!! For example, the fact that you get an “admin” interface (CRUD functionality is really what I’m going for here) right out of the box is fantastically amazing and exceptional in my experience. This seems to indicate that the development and design of Django has been pragmatic and reasonable which are the hallmarks of things that I like to use.
And about FileMaker. . . . FileMaker is, or was, a desktop database application. It was similar to Microsoft Access. FileMaker was my big introduction to software development. You could design an app within FileMaker and it would contain a database model, user interfaces, scripting capabilities, lots of data integrity functionality built-in, and the process was extremely user-friendly and GUI-driven; there was no coding required aside from the code the developer chose to write for enhanced functionality of the app. I found it extremely useful personally and professionally.
Now I’m thinking of trying to use FileMaker again, as both a Web application prototyping and wireframing tool, a tool for building one-off apps for myself that don’t need to be on the Web, and, once again, for professional development through my consulting services. For example, I could build a complex, data-driven application in a few days and hand it off to a contractor to replicate it in whichever stack might be called for. That seems very efficient!
So, I will move forward with this set of tools for now and see how it goes.
The amount of info and insight Firefox provides by using its developer tools is amazing and impressive.
SDKMAN! to the rescue!!!
I just had to blog about this again. I think I’ve posted about it before, and for all I know everyone on Java-Earth already knows about it, but still. . . .
How To Record with the Screen Turned Black & Off in Android
There are some sensible reasons why you might want to record with the screen turned off and some nefarious reasons why you might want to record with the screen turned off. Iβm going to assume you want to record
Source: How To Record with the Screen Turned Black & Off in Android
I don’t get it. Why is it treated so skeptically when a person wants to record video without monitoring the output live? I would like to press “record” on my phone while I’m driving and continue to use my phone while it continues to record video. Is that such an edge case?? It seems like bad design to me, not only making assumptions that people should want to record video while monitoring it constantly but enforcing it so that when I switch activities, for example, while recording a video the recording stops. I didn’t tell it to stop. Why did it stop? Why should it stop? Who determined that the default human expectation should be that when you stop looking at a video recording in progress it ceases to be?
Foray into Hadoop with Hortonworks HDP
I embarked on an adventure to learn Hadoop and hit my first big snag. Β Here’s my post on Hortonworks’s forum:
http://hortonworks.com/community/forums/topic/completely-uninstalling-hdp-2-22-3/
I decided to go with Hortonworks’s Hadoop distribution because they make all of their code open-source.