#separation model

FileMaker Session Model Video – geist interactive

  If you aren’t familiar with the session model in FileMaker, this blog post and video by Todd Geist is a great introduction (one more bonus:  he integrates the Selector model into the session model in this video).

The session model is all about tightly controlling the data and views displayed to the end user.  It does this by adding a Table Occurrence (T.O.) in front of all the other T.O.’s,…

Blurring the Distinction between Schema and Data, part 2 | FileMakerHacks

This is Part 2 on Kevin Franks presentation at Pause on Error recently:

A recurring theme, as we saw in part 1 and will see again today here in part 2, is that you can store “runtime code” as data. The most extreme example I’ve encountered is a proof of concept created and presented by Dr. Ray Cologon at DevCon 2006, the Text Script Interpreter, a.k.a. TSI.

The idea is that the entirety of…