Geoff Coffey Presents “DRY FileMaker”
Last month at the FileMaker Developer Conference in San Francisco, Geoff Coffey of SixFriedRice presented a session called, “DRY FileMaker: Techniques to Keep Scripts Error-Free and Manageable”.
Everyone in the Phoenix FileMaker Pro Users Group (FMPug/FMugAZ) who attended DevCon was at Geoff’s session (because Geoff is awesome). For the Phoenix members who did not attend DevCon, I have great news!
On Tuesday, September 15th, 2009, Geoff will be presenting his “DRY FileMaker” session to our local group.
Geoff’s session will give you a new perspective on scripting challenges by demonstrating how to use less code with increased efficiency. By implementing the DRY (Dont Repeat Yourself) principles in FileMaker, you’ll be better able to handle error conditions, keep scripts small and efficient, and modularize scripting for easy maintainence. Geoff will also demonstrate “context free scripting,” a powerful technique (using script parameters and script results) that allows you to incorporate global-style flexibility and re-usability into every every script without making table-specific changes.
I’ve already started some “script make-overs” of my own by applying the DRY techniques I learned from Geoff’s DevCon session, and you will, too, once you discover how to bring all these techniques together.
I look forward to seeing you at this meeting!
Geoff Coffey is co-owner of Six Fried Rice where he writes about, teaches and builds software with FileMaker Pro. He is co-author of “FileMaker Pro 10: The Missing Manual” as well as a technical editor and contributor to FileMaker Advisor Basics magazine. Geoff is a FileMaker Pro expert specializing in web application development.
