Next week I visit clients in Bremen, so how about having a xojo meeting for dinner? Here is a survey for best time/date: doodle.com/dg5ef36hr7xh6qu5 If we have a couple of people interested, we can look for a meeting place and reserve a table. Top... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 4.2 plugins: Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.1g. Added Container.GetResolution function. Changed Trace command to show DPI values in container as readable numbers. Download at monkeybreadsoftware.de/filemaker/files/Prerelease... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 14.1 plugins: Updated to OpenSSL 1.0.1g. Added JoinDataMBS and JoinStringMBS functions. Added NSBitmapImageRepMBS.imageRepWithCGImage function and remove constructor taking CGImage. Improved StringHandleMBS class to av... [More]

There are hundreds of consultants out there doing the exact same thing you do.  They’re hustling to sell their services to the very same people you’re trying to sell to.  They don’t live in New York city or San Francisco … Con... [More]

You may not like the idea of such a bundle, but it seems like the MacHeist bundle may give us another 10000+ people with Xojo licenses. If you need one, get the bundle. Maybe cheaper for some than an update, or if your license expired a good way to ... [More]

Today I had a job with XojoScript and wanted to have a textual message for the error. So I joined some information from the documentation and the xojoscript plugin's interface to build a list of errors and their documented error message. The functi... [More]

For the Xojo journal I wrote a few comments to the last plugin release. Maybe you missed them: When Mac OS X 10.8 was released, I checked what is new and maybe worth to make a plugin. So I found new frameworks like EventKit, Social and Accounts and... [More]

Anyone who has been following this blog for any length of time knows that I love the Xojo Developer Conferences.  It’s my one time of the year that I can talk shop all day and night.  Here are some random … Continue reading →... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 14.1 plugins: Fixed several background tasks to execute events on main thread instead of a xojo thread. This should avoid ThreadAccessingUIException. Fixed a bug in NSApplicationDelegateMBS.restoreWindowWithIdentifier ... [More]

New in this prerelease of the 4.2 plugins: Updated XCode to version 5.1 and rebuild everything. Added AppleScript property functions. Reduced memory footprint for PDFKit.GetPDFText function. Added DynaPDF.FlattenAnnots and DynaPDF.FlattenForm. Fixe... [More]

For our German speaking customers, we offer training days: Für unsere deutschsprachigen Xojo Entwickler bieten wir dieses Jahr auch wieder eine Schulung an. Am 22. und 23. Mai 2014 im Viva Hotel in Konstanz. Lernen Sie neues über Xojo kenn... [More]

In my last post I talked about what version 1 of the new compiler is going to accomplish in the first quarter of 2015.  It’s a great first step and with any switch to a newer, better technology it means … Continue reading →... [More]

The pan-European Unconference, Barcamp, Meetup, Hangout… for FileMaker Developers. Berlin, 2. - 4. June 2014 Website: dotfmp.com Last year I visited this unconference in Berlin and enjoyed it. Maybe a chance for you to meet FileMaker developers fr... [More]

The regularly Filemaker meeting is again this Thursday: FileMaker Stammtisch, 3rd April 2014, 7pm Restaurant Linde von Lorsbach - Alt Lorsbach 21 - 65719 Hofheim See you there! ... [More]

The Xojo Developer Conference keynote address is usually where a bunch of future items are put on display.  This year it was iOS and Xojo Cloud (the latter just being released).  But sometimes the sessions that the engineers lead are … Continue... [More]

If you liked the Xojo Conference in Las Vegas, maybe you are looking forward to also visit our conference in Germany? Hotel in Koblenz is reserved for 17th to 20th September 2014. 17th - training in German 18th and 19th - conference in English 20t... [More]

Here a few pictures from the conference: You probably read Bob's report, but I can add that new compiler is scheduled for Q1/2015. So when that means we have a beta in Q1, maybe a good working one in Q2? For iOS, well, they target to get it out in... [More]

My session was moved to just after the lunch, so if you plan to come, please check the updated schedule tomorrow. ... [More]

Geoff Perlman of Xojo gave the keynote address at the Xojo Developers Conference (XDC) today.  In his hour long talk Geoff talked a lot about Xojo Cloud and a little bit about the upcoming iOS version of Xojo. This years … Continue reading U... [More]

Our XMP plugin can read/write EXIF metadata, IPTC and of course the XMP values: dim file as FolderItem = SpecialFolder.Desktop.Child("test.jpg") // use XMPFilesMBS to open file dim flags as integer = XMPFilesMBS.kOpenForUpdate dim xf as n... [More]

When we (Christian Miller of Pariahware and myself) spoke at REAL World 2007 about Xojo (then Real Studio) consulting we had no idea what people wanted.  So we took the generic approach of  lets-throw-everything-we-can-think-of-and-fit-it-into-45-min... [More]

Xojo 2014 Release 1 hit the internet this week.  This substantial update fixes a number of issues, has some very nice enhancements, and has the long awaited release of Xojo Cloud.  So let’s dig in! Xojo Cloud is, as the … Continue reading ͛... [More]

BKeeney Software has released version 1.1 of our Calendar Classes for Xojo and Real Studio. The Calendar Control is a Canvas subclass that lets you easily add Day, Week, Multi-Week, and Month views into your desktop applications.  The Calendar Contro... [More]

Every now and then the Xojo IDE/compiler does something that just makes zero logical sense.  By all accounts some bit of code should work.  But it doesn’t and no amount of debugging and code changes solves it.  It’s easy to … Continue rea... [More]

Excellent article over at Fast Company that’s a really good read.  http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024819/how-not-to-get-screwed-by-clients?partner=newsletter  I’ll wait for you to come back. Get it in Writing Never do any work unless you have it in wri... [More]