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[jjeremysstash]

Well the thing is... It's not possible for everyone.

For my Master and afterwards for work, I need to have Windows because I have to use programs that can only be found on windows and mac, and I'm certainly never going to use a mac.

Yes linux is great, which is why I put my previous laptop under linux now that I use another one for uni, but I can't download Adobe on Debian now, can I?

And yes, I know there are free and open sources alternatives AND that they're also available on linux. But when your entire uni/work system uses specific programs to run specific tasks specific to your specialisation, you can hardly be picky.

Also linux is "hard to use" because a huge chunk of people use windows and only moves to Linux when they're laptop is dying. It's just the normal impact of changing OS.

Windows is hard to use bc they keep rolling out shit updates and also capitalism. But in itself it's easier for a lot of people because they know how to use it.

So yeah... You can advocate for linux. Linux is great. But you can't possibly tell people to do things they can't do, and even less shame/judge them for that.

Fixing Windows 11 - A Masterpost

Windows 11 is absolute crap for a good bunch of stuff so yeah, have a masterpost with most of the things I've found around to fix it haha (they're not all here because I did stuff around and I don't remember what)

Stopping W11 from making you create an account/setting up your computer without internet (with a way to create gpedit.msc if your version doesn't have it)

Fixing the Taskbar (in case you also don't like the grouped Battery/internet/sound)(there's more to it, check the settings)

Fixing the Start Menu

How to show all options right away

How to remove Copilot if you have it (I don't, but it might be because I'm in Europe??)

Other stuff not specifically related to the shit W11 did

Changing the size of the scroll bars

How to fully remove Cortana

[brownhood69]

The puppetshow: News

Aradia is in her office reading through the papers filled with lore about Cookie worldly Aus when Atticus the FileMaker runs it to her office looking pale as white chalk.

Atticus:*PANT PANT PANT*

Aradia looks up from one of her papers.

Aradia:Atticus? Why didnt you bother knocking?

Atticus:I-Im sorry Aradia, b-but this can't wait any longer. Remember that Fix a beast world you created? Yeah uh, the pure vanilla cookie in there turn every single cookie in the cookie world into mindless puppets.

...Aradia stops reading her paperwork before getting up from her seat to look Atticus straight in the eyes.

Aradia: ...What?

Atticus:A- apparently something within him snapped and took all his friends soul jams in order to take control of Earth bread and mind control every single cookie in his world! Even the legendary cookies aren't safe!

Aradia:... Schedule a meeting with the Destruction class including the Punishment class. We cannot let his influence spread to other universes. We also need to make sure he knows his place in the world.

Atticus:W-What are you going to do to him?

Aradia: We are going to make him feel the same pain that he inflicted on those cookies; Helplessness.

fix a beast is by @fishymom-art

[pearatwar]

Why are you pear :v

ohohohohohoh this is my favorite story to tell okay so

once upon a time (a couple years ago): our italian teacher explains to us how surnames came from the position our ancestors held in society and she tells us to look our surname's origin up

so i look it up, it's a surname present rather sporadically in the north of italy, where i live, and it barely ever comes up in the south, and its meaning most definitely was and still is "pyre maker" (see: funeral pyres)

BUT the first half of the surname (which everyone calls me by) in a SOUTHERN dialect (the surname does not exist in the south) means pear; or rather pear tree

at the same time poor old me was trying to outgrow their government-mandated (created by parents) online username

It had struck me like a bolt of lightning so white and pure.. i was pear!! pear pear pear peae pear

but i damn well knew pear was going to be taken on every site, game and relational database known to man, i had to improvise and god forbid i settled for numbers. numbers dont make an impression unless you are a big nerd person guy.

threw some words at 'pear' to see what stuck. 'light' was a close second and i am not proud of that. 'fire' also was on the table but 'war' is what i ended up with. it rolled off the tongue like a tasty bite of pear.

fast forward some years, everyone of my friends refers to me as pear and even my parents acknowledged it. whoop dee doo! thats how you make an username that lasts

BONUS: other potential nicknames??

pyremaker (one of my friends is called filemaker so. uh.)

metheas (no real reason except its close to my real name)

rebex (originally meant 'rebecca' + 'regex', see regular expressions, still a cool name imo)

nullpointer (sometimes i daydream of owning a radio channel that broadcasts dnb and jungle music and it's called null pointer and its so cool woah. null pointers are purple little creaturws that explode badly written code)

[fromdevcom]

It’s interesting to follow the progress of FileMaker and see it gaining more and more popularity in different circles. The attention that’s being paid to the platform is definitely well deserved, but those who want to make sure that they will be able to make proper use of it, in the long run, should familiarize themselves with the evolution trends of the platform, and know what to expect from it some years from now. That way, you can always be prepared for any new developments that arrive in the market, and you’ll be able to meet the changing requirements of your applications without too much hassle.More Focus On Rapid DeploymentThere is already a lot being said about the potential of FileMaker to facilitate rapid app development and deployment, and this will likely become an even hotter topic in the near future. Many companies are paying close attention to methods that can optimize their workflows in this regard, and a tool that can allow a development team to have something up and running in a short period of time is an invaluable asset in the current environment. This will become even more valid as automation technologies continue to take ground, and we’re likely going to see a lot more attention being paid to FileMaker’s capabilities for rapid prototyping and deployment of applications, as well as its benefits when it comes to getting user feedback quickly.More Intuitive Development ToolsWe will also likely see development tools that make more sense from the perspective of someone without intricate knowledge of FileMaker’s systems and hierarchy. This is important because we will certainly need all the extra work power we can get to implement the complex projects that the near future is surely going to require. Many development teams are already paying active attention to the idea of making their tools more accessible for the common user, and it will be interesting to follow that trend and see how it evolves. AI is likely going to play a major role in defining the tools of tomorrow, and while it’s hard to tell how far we will go in this direction, it’s not hard to imagine a situation where a user “develops” an app by just listing out its specifications in a natural language, with a system running in the background taking care of the more complex parts of the development process.Even More Community SupportFileMaker already enjoys a lot of support from its users, both professionals, and hobbyists, and it’s showing every sign that this is going to continue in the near future too. From online communities of fellow users to professional services like FileMaker hosting – the market is quite rich and active right now, and there is no shortage of options for you to use. As long as you understand the requirements of your own projects well enough, you should be able to find the right partner without too much difficulty and keep working with them in the future too. And you generally don’t need to compare current companies too much to see which ones have been around the longest, and which are showing signs that they will be around in the near future as well.Better SecurityPeople working closely with FileMaker know that the platform has some issues with its security when it’s used by less experienced users, but thankfully, a lot of effort is being put in this area right now and the situation is getting better and better. There is already a lot of attention on these issues, and people are working hard to educate FileMaker users and developers on appropriate practices and prevent them from making common mistakes. And if things keep going the same way, the situation will likely become even better in the near future, taking a huge load off the shoulders of those who use FileMaker the most.After all, it will significantly improve things for everyone when users don’t have to occupy their minds with small details related to the current security organization of the company’s systems. Allowing every developer to focus more actively on figuring out

a good workflow for their own application is going to benefit everyone on some level, including end users who rely on FileMaker apps in their daily work.

[plentyeyes]

hey I hope this isn't super annoying, but do u have any tips for that neocities template situation u made a while ago? ive been stuck at setting up my node environment (it wont recognize it as an internal/external command operable program or batch file, if that helps.)

again i TOTALLY understand if this is just my problem to figure out but I cant find helpful info elsewhere...

i'm assuming you're on windows!

so, windows has an "environment variable" called PATH. an environment variable is basically just a value that can be used by any program that can see it. your command line uses PATH to look for executable files that it can run as commands

so for example, imagine you have an executable (.exe) file at, say: -> C:/FileMaker/filemaker.exe in this case, if you add "C:/FileMaker/" to your PATH, then you can go in your command line and type "filemaker", and it would run filemaker.exe.

i'm assuming you're trying to run npm in your command line. however, if there is no npm.exe in your PATH, and you try to run npm i, then it'll give you "not recognized as an internal/external command".

this means one of the following:

npm is not installed. it can be installed bundled with node.js at the node.js website, or through nvm (or nvm-windows). when you install it with node.js, make sure "add to PATH" is enabled!

2. npm IS installed, but it is not in your PATH. this is weird and i'm not sure why it would happen, but if you can find npm.exe, this is quite easily remedied.

search for system "environment variables" in your computer. i use win10; for win10, there is a button called "Environment variables..." that opens a second window. then you find Path and then double click that, which opens a third window, then you wanna add the folder path to the end of the list

in case it helps and you need to track down npm.exe manually, i have two npm.exe files at these places, which might match your setup:

C:/Program Files/nodejs/npm.exe C:/Users/[user]/AppData/Roaming/npm/npm.exe

3. npm IS installed and it IS in your path, but your command line cannot see the environment variables. the primary reason for this would be that you did not restart the command line after installing node and/or updating the environment variables; go ahead and do that if you haven't. the secondary reason for this would be you're using a command line in something else (like vs code), and for some reason in that situation updating the environment variables can be very finnicky. try using your system's command line instead.

worst case scenario, you can also replace "npm" in your command line with the full path to npm. like: "C:/Program Files/nodejs/npm.exe i". this would work!

(sometimes using the "where" command helps to locate stuff, like "where npm", but i dont know how where actually works; for all i know it could be using PATH as well, in which case it would be useless for finding things not already in your PATH.)

[filemakerexperts]

FileMaker Synchronisation...

Ab 7 Januar stellen wir eine neue Synchronisations-Lösung für FileMaker vor. Ob Server - Client oder FileMaker Go - Server und umgekehrt. Diese Lösung funktioniert ohne Plugin.

[xtrablak674]

Matt, Me and Ronnie

The image by itself tells a story all on its on, but I felt since I wasn't going to do a full entry that I should say a little something. First of all I believe this photo was taken David Melito, who had the curious name of Spike in college, due to the fact that he was a media/film major. I had participated in a few of his film projects during this time.

Now Matt or Matthew and I parted friendship I think sometimes around the early aughts, due to some fallout from Adam but primarily because it was overdue in its own right. As shown here Matt was a bit more into me than I was him, and it manifested itself as him being a bit of a fan. Yes a fan, more appropriately fanatic.

During this time period I had a database of my sexual partners in FileMaker Pro, I sometimes included photos and totally had fuller descriptions of each partner and the activity we participated in. Matt knew my partners better than me, and I think he even recalled their number on the list, he may have had an eidetic memory, it was flattering but also a bit creepy. The final straw came after my fire in ninety-eight and I stayed with him in his parents home a couple of blocks away till my apartment was suitable to move back into.

Smothering would be an understatement, it seemed like his dream of having me to himself full-time was realized and it became untenable for me. I moved to the YMCA that used to be on twenty-third street to finish out the time of the renovation of my apartment. Our friendship waned and soon ended there after.

I don't want to absolve myself of any culpability here, as I have said when I talk about this time period I had a tendency towards very codependent relationships with friends that always traipsed into unhealthy emotional boundaries. But Matt seemed near obsessive about me and albeit I enjoyed the attention it never quite seemed right. I was the ish, but I wasn't all of that.

Now, damn it, this wasn't supposed to be a missive about Matt and me, Ronnie is also in the photo on the right. Now I had a thing for Ronnie following my trend of liking unclockable guys, not something I would overtly acknowledge until years later. But Ronnie wasn't giving me the time of day. Like David who took the photo. I never had even a taste of impropriety with either of them, and trust I tried repeatedly.

Of course this only made me desire Ronnie more. In college I was the flavor of the week every week and I partook of all the bounties of this position in an unshackled fervor. I always have a special eye for the ones who got away.

I am not sure where we are on campus here. It looks like a party. I am trying to recall where on campus had unfinished brick walls. Maybe the garden apartments at the South of campus? It all looks so casual I can't see this happening in any official campus location. I also don't have any shoes on, which means I was comfortable enough to go around in my socked feet. It would be years before I felt comfortable enough to walk around totally bare-footed.

I sent David an email asking if he had a newer scan of this photo, maybe he will have more background and context. But these are the few things that I remember. Otherwise I look great, I don't think I still own one stitch of clothing I had in this shot, but I did have a bit clothing loss in ninety-two and again in ninety-eight. But I can confidently say I don't even have that Swatch anymore, albeit it might be in a box somewhere in this house waiting to be found again.

College was an interesting time for me, I wasn't quite prepared for the experience especially the class difference between my peers and me, and I totally wasn't expecting to end up homeless and having to leave after three semesters. Albeit I did make connections that followed me for decades as you're supposed to do, I just think I would have done even better if I was prepared for what college was really about, and since no one in my household had been they couldn't manage my expectation around how to navigate this very interesting time in young adulthood.

[Photo by David Melito]

[ms-demeanor]

There are some important things to know about the next section of this story.

It is gross. Very very gross, very unsanitary, read at your own risk.

John was a fully adult middle aged man, maybe in his mid to late fifties; he was not an older person possibly dealing with dementia, he was not a young person in his first job with zero idea of how to behave in an office environment (or just, like, the world in general. What the fuck.).

John had worked at the company for ten years.

The company was hiring because John was fucking up. He wasn't doing his work, when it was getting done it was getting done badly, and it was costing us customers. But Gary, the owner, has always been a coward about replacing people, so I was interviewed in the very specific time that John took his lunch every day. I don't think the interview went particularly well, but John was REALLY fucking up and B2B vouched for me as at least someone who had no history of significantly fucking the company over and therefore a measurably better employee than John. I got the call back about the job before I'd even made it home.

So on the fifteenth of the month (which gives Gary the opportunity to fire John on a Friday afternoon and hand him his last check) I show up for my first day of Business Work in my cute little knee length skirt with my cute little button-up shirt and my cute little purple peacoat because I am an Adult and I am going to be a Business Lady, or something in that approximate neighborhood. I am going to be assisting and executing. I am going to be administrating and office managing. The coffee pot is going to be clean, the paperwork is going to be done, and my email will find you no matter how far you run.

(I am clueless).

I spend the first few hours familiarizing myself with the programs I lied about being proficient in in the interview and learning how to navigate Filemaker Pro 7 (released in 2005, the year is 2011, we will continue using this program without upgrades or changes until 2018). I also start emptying the desk drawers of all the stuff that John didn't take when he left and begin an inventory of the parts cabinet. At some point, I am sitting in my secretarial cubicle at my enormous L-shaped desk and I am emptying drawers on the far right hand side. I finish emptying the drawer into the trashcan and instead of pushing my wheely office chair back to my keyboard, I grab the edge of the desk and pull myself back into place.

There is something sharp and abrasive under the desk, which I've felt a few times scraping over my knees as I move my legs, or have touched in passing as I reached for the trash can. I lean down to look under the desk, to see if maybe there are splinters that are chipping off or hardware left over from a keyboard tray or something.

That's not it.

At first, I'm not sure what I'm seeing. Is it mold? Is it some very, very weird pattern in the particleboard across both legs of the L-shaped desk? It's hard to see because it's dark under the desk, so I get the flashlight out of my purse.

It's not mold.

It's boogers.

I'm sitting on the floor of my brand new shiny office lady job looking up at approximately twelve square feet of snot stalactites that have been smeared on the bottom of the desk for the last ten years.

John was apparently a nose-picker, and he decided to share that with me.

I stare in abject horror for probably thirty seconds, then stand up and go to the bathroom and wash my hands very, very well, and then I walk to B2B's office.

"Hey man," I say.

"Hey," he says back. "How's the first day so far?" (He has asked me this every twenty minutes and I deeply appreciate it - working with him is great until he unceremoniously abandons me for a good job three years later. We are still friends - in the malicious compliance con story he was the person sneaking stickers all over the place).

"Um," I say, "I need you to come look at something because I want to make sure that I'm not crazy."

"Well, that's not ominous," he says and follows me back to my office. I hand him my flashlight and direct him behind the cubicle. "Do you see anything weird with the under-side of the desk?"

He crouches down on the floor, angles the flashlight up, and frowns. Then frowns harder. Then leans a bit closer. Then shouts "WHAT THE FUCK?"

Two technicians come running.

"What's wrong?" Tech one asks.

"That motherfucker has been sticking boogers to his desk for ten fucking years!"

"What?" Tech two exclaims, and they each take their time with the flashlight to look up at my desk and marvel in horror.

We stand around in contemplative shock when everyone has had a chance to observe Mount Mucus.

"Could he have done this after he got fired?"

"That was on Friday, man, you can't make that much snot in a few hours."

"He literally kept tissues on his desk what the fuck was he doing?"

"I don't know! What the fuck, do we have to check the cars?"

"Can any of you tell me if we have any bleach?" I ask.

"Uh, yeah, there's some cleaning supplies in the server room," B2B says. "Why?"

Well, because nobody else was going to clean it up.

So I spent the last two hours of my first day at work spraying windex (we didn't have bleach) at snot central to allow the accumulated mucus to soften then scraping it off with paper towels.

It wasn't really assisting anyone, but there sure was somebody I was in the mood to execute. And to be fair, that is the biggest middle finger he could have possibly given to the job that had fired him so unceremoniously.

Actually, I've told the story about how I got the job at the coffee shop by handling a dead body - did I tell you that I got this job because someone at the hacker meetup put together a powerpoint about how much he fucking hated his coworker?

[blubberquark]

Excel, Word, Access, Outlook

Previously on computer literacy: A Test For Computer Literacy

If you’re a computer programmer, you sometimes hear other programmers complain about Excel, because it mixes data and code, or about Word, because it mixes text and formatting, and nobody ever uses Word and Excel properly.

If you’re a computer programmer, you frequently hear UX experts praise the way Excel allows non-programmers to write whole applications without help from the IT department. Excel is a great tool for normal people and power users, I often hear.

I have never seen anybody who wasn’t already versed in a real programming language write a complex application in an Excel spreadsheet. I have never seen anybody who was not a programmer or trained in Excel fill in a spreadsheet and send it back correctly.

Computer programmers complain about the inaccessibility of Excel, the lack of discoverability, the mixing of code and data in documents that makes versioning applications a proper nightmare, the influence of the cell structure on code structure, and the destructive automatic casting of cell data into datatypes.

UX experts praise Excel for giving power to non-programmers, but I never met a non-programmer who used Excel “properly”, never mind developed an application in it. I met non-programmers who used SPSS, Mathematica, or Matlab properly a handful of times, but even these people are getting rarer and rarer in the age of Julia, NumPy, SymPy, Octave, and R. Myself, I have actually had to learn how to use Excel in school, in seventh grade. I suspect that half of the “basic computer usage” curriculum was the result of a lobbying campaign by Microsoft’s German branch, because we had to learn about certain features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows 95, and non-Microsoft applications were conspicuously absent.

Visual Basic and VBS seemed like a natural choice to give power to end users in the 90s. People who had already used a home computer during the 8-bit/16-bit era (or even an IBM-compatible PC) were familiar with BASIC because that was how end-users were originally supposed to interact with their computers. BASIC was for end users, and machine code/compiled languages were for “real programmers” - BASIC was documented in the manual that came with your home computer, machine code was documented in MOS data sheets. From today’s point of view, programming in BASIC is real programming. Calling Visual Basic or .Net scripting in Excel “not programming“ misrepresents what modern programmers do, and what GUI users have come to expect after the year 2000.

Excel is not very intuitive or beginner-friendly. The “basic computer usage” curriculum was scrapped shortly after I took it, so I had many opportunities to observe people who were two years younger than me try to use Excel by experimenting with the GUI alone.

The same goes fro Microsoft Word. A friend of mine insists that nobody ever uses Word properly, because Word can do ligatures and good typesetting now, as well as footnotes, chapters, outline note taking, and so on. You just need to configure it right. If people used Word properly, they wouldn’t need LaTeX or Markdown. That friend is already a programmer. All the people I know who use Word use WYSIWYG text styling, fonts, alignment, tables, that sort of thing. In order to use Word “properly“, you’d have to use footnotes, chapter marks, and style sheets. The most “power user” thing I have ever seen an end user do was when my father bought a CD in 1995 with 300 Word templates for all sorts of occasions - birthday party invitation, employee of the month certificate, marathon completion certificate, time table, cooking recipe, invoice, cover letter - to fill in and print out.

Unlike Excel, nobody even claims that non-programmer end users do great things in Word. Word is almost never the right program when you have email, calendars, wikis, to-do lists/Kanban/note taking, DTP, vector graphics, mind mapping/outline editors, programmer’s plain text editors, dedicated novelist/screenwriting software, and typesetting/document preparation systems like LaTeX. Nobody disputes that plain text, a wiki, or a virtual Kanban board is often preferable to a .doc or .docx file in a shared folder. Word is still ubiquitous, but so are browsers.

Word is not seen as a liberating tool that enables end-user computing, but as a program you need to have but rarely use, except when you write a letter you have to print out, or when you need to collaborate with people who insist on e-mailing documents back and forth.

I never met an end user who actually liked Outlook enough to use it for personal correspondence. It was always mandated by an institution or an employer, maintained by an IT department, and they either provided training or assumed you already had had training. Outlook has all these features, but neither IT departments nor end users seemed to like them. Outlook is top-down mandated legibility and uniformity.

Lastly, there is Microsoft Access. Sometimes people confused Excel and Access because both have tables, so at some point Microsoft caved in and made Excel understand SQL queries, but Excel is still not a database. Access is a database product, designed to compete with products like dBase, Cornerstone, and FileMaker. It has an integrated editor for the database schema and a GUI builder to create forms and reports. It is not a networked database, but it can be used to run SQL queries on a local database, and multiple users can open the same database file if it is on a shared SMB folder. It is not something you can pick up on one afternoon to code your company’s billing and invoicing system. You could probably use it to catalogue your Funko-Pop collection, or to keep track of the inventory, lending and book returns of a municipal library, as long as the database is only kept on one computer. As soon as you want to manage a mobile library or multiple branches, you would have to ditch Access for a real SQL RDBMS.

Microsoft Access was marketed as a tool for end-user computing, but nobody really believed it. To me, Access was SQL with training wheels in computer science class, before we graduated to MySQL and then later to Postgres and DB2. UX experts never tout Access as a big success story in end-user computing - yet they do so for Excel.

The narrative around Excel is quite different from the narrative around Yahoo Pipes, IFTTT, AppleScript, HyperCard, Processing, or LabView. The narrative goes like this: “Excel empowers users in big, bureaucratic organisations, and allows them to write limited applications to solve business problems, and share them with co-workers.”

Excel is not a good tool for finance, simulations, genetics, or psychology research, but it is most likely installed on every PC in your organisation already. You’re not allowed to share .exe files, but you are allowed to share spreadsheets. Excel is an exchange format for applications. Excel files are not centrally controlled, like Outlook servers or ERP systems, and they are not legible to management. Excel is ubiquitous. Excel is a ubiquitous runtime and development environment that allows end-users to create small applications to perform simple calculations for their jobs.

Excel is a tool for office workers to write applications to calculate things, but not without programming, but without involving the IT department. The IT department would like all forms to be running on some central platform, all data to be in the data warehouse/OLAP platform/ERP system - not because they want to make the data legible and accessible, but because they want to minimise the number of business-critical machines and points of failure, because important applications should either run on servers in a server rack, or be distributed to workstations by IT.

Management wants all knowledge to be formalised so the next guy can pick up where you left off when you quit. For this reason, wikis, slack, tickets and kanban boards are preferable to Word documents in shared folders. The IT department calls end-user computing “rogue servers“ or “shadow IT“. They want all IT to have version control, unit tests, backups, monitoring, and a handbook. Accounting/controlling thinks end-user computing is a compliance nightmare. They want all software to be documented, secured, and budgeted for. Upper management wants all IT to be run by the IT department, and all information integrated into their reporting solution that generates these colourful graphs. Middle management wants their people to get some work done.

Somebody somewhere in the C-suite is always viewing IT as a cost centre, trying to fire IT people and to scale down the server room. This looks great on paper, because the savings in servers, admins, and tech support are externalised to other departments in the form of increased paperwork, time wasted on help hotlines, and

Excel is dominating end-user computing because of social reasons and workplace politics. Excel is not dominating end-user computing because it is actually easy to pick up for end-users.

Excel is dominating end-user computing neither because it is actually easy to pick up for non-programmers nor easy to use for end-users.

This is rather obvious to all the people who teach human-computer interaction at universities, to the people who write books about usability, and the people who work in IT departments. Maybe it is not quite as obvious to people who use Excel. Excel is not easy to use. It’s not obvious when you read a book on human-computer interaction (HCI), industrial design, or user experience (UX). Excel is always used as the go-to example of end-user computing, an example of a tool that “empowers users”. If you read between the lines, you know that the experts know that Excel is not actually a good role model you should try to emulate.

Excel is often called a “no code“ tool to make “small applications“, but that is also not true. “No Code” tools usually require users to write code, but they use point-and-click, drag-and-drop, natural language programming, or connecting boxes by drawing lines to avoid the syntax of programming languages. Excel avoids complex syntax by breaking everything up into small cells. Excel avoids iteration or recursion by letting users copy-paste formulas into cells and filling formulas in adjacent cells automatically. Excel does not have a debugger, but shows you intermediate results by showing the numbers/values in the cells by default, and the code in the cells only if you click.

All this makes Excel more like GameMaker or ClickTeam Fusion than like Twine. Excel is a tool that doesn’t scare users away with text editors, but that’s not why people use it. It that were the reason, we would be writing business tools and productivity software in GameMaker.

The next time you read or hear about the amazing usability of Excel, take it with a grain of salt! It’s just barely usable enough.

[indieephemera]

Computer printout of a catalog of my entire record collection (vinyl, tapes and CDs), as input into the family computer on April 30, 1990.

The floppy disk containing the text file onto which this was saved is long gone, but this computer printout lives on as evidence of my early-onset record collector mania. Where did all the money I made at my after-school video rental store clerk job go? Here, clearly.

I also think it’s amusing that I was this into documenting my collection at such an early age. I’ve long since passed the point where that is even remotely worth my time attempting, but this effort preceded a circa-1998 cataloging of my 7″ singles collection in a primitive FileMaker Pro database on what might have been my first laptop computer.

As for the content itself, there are many classics represented here on page one, including records by Galaxie 500, The Church, Game Theory and even a semi-obscure one on Flying Nun by Able Tasmans. Yes, I was already knee-deep in underground Kiwi pop, with subsequent pages documenting my ownership of records by The Chills (”Doledrums” 7″ single and “I Love My Leather Jacket” 12″), Sneaky Feelings (”Husband House” 12″) and that In Love With These Times Flying Nun comp on CD.

If you want to take a deeper peek into my teenage record collection, I scanned the whole thing and uploaded a PDF of the catalog here. There are plenty of other cool records (early Field Mice records, the first dB’s single) and a few embarrassments that, well, you’ll just have to click through to see.

[seat-safety-switch]

There's few things people dread more than the arrival of their latest credit card bill. A big tome of paper containing all of their impulse purchases, sinful subscriptions, and general wastes of money. It's no wonder that a lot of folks don't even look at the bill but instead throw it directly into the shredder, banishing this evil structure from their lives forever. It doesn't have to be like this. Time to switch... to SwitchBank™.

Here at SwitchBank, we won't give you a credit card. That's because we don't trust you enough to extend to you any credit. And that, in turn, is because nobody funding us trusts us enough to extend to us any credit. This has some big advantages. For one, you never have to worry about us foreclosing your mortgage because we bet the pinks in a Cavalier-on-Isuzu drag race. At no point will we securitize an investment and then sell it to other banks, because they won't take our calls.

It doesn't just stop at credit, though: we also won't let you write cheques (our printer is out of toner) or use a debit card, because those involve paying someone else huge fees. Come over to our place, show us some ID, and we'll dig your cash out of the back. What we do is best called "retro banking," and retro is in.

Is it secure? You bet: our entire information technology systems architecture is one Mac IIci from 1989 running a Filemaker database. Nobody even knows how to operate it, let alone how to break in. And we have an armoured car, because to be honest, this was the entire reason for starting a bank in the first place. It's pretty dope, and it scares the living shit out of slowpokes in the fast lane when you tailgate them with it. Most secure of all, however, is the fact that we have literally no customers. Our vault is empty! If anyone breaks in, all they're going to find is a bunch of discarded staples from when we were having a stapler fight last Tuesday. Oh, and a bunch of armoured car parts. And Isuzu parts. Datsun parts... regular Nissan parts... couple of what I think used to be Corvette monoleafs in the back... huh, I forgot I had this Taurus transmission.

[filemakerexperts]

Nachtrag Synchronisation mit FileMaker Go

Ich hatte ja schon vor einiger Zeit über die Möglichkeit einer Synchronisation zwischen FileMaker und FileMaker Go ohne Plugin oder andere Hilfemittel berichtet. Nun kam die Frage auf, wie speichere ich in den Importeinstellungen die Einstellung „Vorhandene Datensätze in der Ergebnismenge aktualisieren“ ?

Ganz einfach. Wir müssen noch auf dem Desktoprechner eine Synchronisation bzw. einen Import durchführen. Im Zweifelsfall auch mit Dummy-Daten. Anschliessend nochmals das Import-Script bearbeiten und die Einstellung wie gezeigt setzen.

Nun sollten veränderte Datensätze nur geändert und nicht als neue Datensätze Hinzugefügt werden.

[loggix097]

FileMaker Software Developing

FileMaker is a cross-platform relational database application from Claris International, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. FileMaker Application (filemaker applicatie) integrates a database engine with a graphical user interface (GUI) and security features, allowing users to modify the database by dragging new elements into layouts, screens, or forms. FileMaker Customization (filemaker maatwerk)  menus with FileMaker Pro Advanced, you can create custom menus for your database solutions. You can add, edit, duplicate, or delete menus and menu items in many ways with our support.

FileMaker WebDirect provides your extended users with desktop-style interaction with your FileMaker app through a web browser on a desktop, laptop or mobile phone. We develop native apps and affordable FileMaker Go apps (iOS only) for any type of task. FileMaker Developer(filemaker ontwikkelaar) does all of this job perfectly.

Loggix is the FileMaker application and supports software development company.

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[broadwaysymposium]

A Stage Manager’s Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions

The beginning of the new year is a time for a fresh start and an opportunity for new beginnings. New Year’s resolutions can help us focus on what we want to do better and/or achieve over the next twelve months. With that in mind, below I’ve put together a top 10 list of New Year’s resolutions for stage managers to consider. These are things for us all to keep in mind throughout the year, ways we can continue to grow and work towards being the best stage managers, leaders and people we can be.

1. Be more proactive than reactive. Anticipate problems or issues and find solutions before they even become a concern. This is challenging, as we have so much on our plate to manage each day, it can be hard to see those few extra steps down the road. But if we spend a few minutes each day thinking farther along the process, any potential rough spots along the road from rehearsals through closing night can be smoothed out before anyone knows there was even a hint of an issue.

2. Be more compassionate. Try to see issues from the other person’s point of view. In this way, annoying complaints and seemingly petty concerns will be understood and solved easier and with less stress and strife. By simply understanding more, we create more trust and a better work environment.

3. Take care of yourself. We focus on taking care of others. Don’t forget to make time for yourself. Create some space to relax, spend time with friends, exercise… all of the things we usually sacrifice while working on a show. We matter too and the same way we invest in the welfare of the company, we can take care of ourselves.

4. Ask for help when you need it. You are not a super hero, as much as stage managers try to be. If you have to tape a complicated floor, ask for some extra hands. Need to change rehearsal studios, ask for help moving everything. Have a question or concern about a union issue, reach out and call. You are not alone. The theatre, producer and you have resources you can call on when needed. Even Superheros can’t always do it alone (see the Avengers or Justice League!).

5. Sleep. Of all the sacrifices we make, this is probably the worst.  We need sleep to function at our best. It helps our brains and bodies. Instead of staying at the theater late to update all your paperwork or rewrite all those line notes, get some shut eye to recharge and refresh. You’ll be more efficient and effective because of it.

6. Use sick days. You are allowed to be sick too. You are human. And it’s better to take a sick day than get the cast infected too. There is also that little quirk in the AEA Production Contract where you can only get paid out 11 of your 13 sick days, so when you get that long run, you gotta take at least two sick days a year anyway!  You can empower your assistants, find a sub and know that you will be covered.  And if you are so valuable that you can't get sick or the show falls apart, maybe that's a good time to ask for a raise!

7. Learn a new hard skill. Those hard skills such as dance vocabulary, computer skills and reading music can be learned in a class, from a book or online.  2018 could be just the right time to add to your skill set by taking a CPR/First Aid class or learning Filemaker or First Draft. Not only is it fun, but it makes you a more valuable stage manager.

8. Cut down on the caffeine and sugary snacks. There are many of us that use coffee or diet coke for a boost or grab that snickers bar for a quick jolt of energy. However, too much can result in dehydration, headaches and more. When in tech for The Little Mermaid, Disney producer Thomas Schumacher kept nuts and dried fruit on his tech table so folks would have real energy snacks available. I’m not saying give up your go to beverage or snack, rather work towards a healthier balance. This will help us be better in the long term. And we all want long careers, right.

9. Be greener.  Unfortunately, we use a lot of paper in our profession. Let’s try to find ways to cut back, reduce and/or reuse paper more. The Broadway Green Alliance has done great work on this front. See their website.  One of the stage managers on Doctor Zhivago had a method for using “dirty paper.” Any paper that was printed on only one side was saved in a special pile and the daily in/out sheet was always printed on the back. 

10. Remember why you love your job! It’s easy to get caught up in all the day to day minutiae of running a show. Everyone needs something and herding all those cats is challenging. If you step back a moment, you can really appreciate the wonderful and amazing job we are privileged to do. We get to work on PLAYS! No cubicles or time clocks, instead we get song and dance all day long! When working on An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, I had to pinch myself to realize that I was working with icons that I grew up admiring  and dreaming about being in the theatre with.

11. BONUS CHALLENGE: Try to see a show and try NOT see the tech elements. This is a real tough one, but worth the effort. Can you get lost in a show enough to not picture calling it or timing the quick changes or re-organizing the scene shifts? Try to give yourself this gift and enjoy the theatre like you did before it was your vocation. I try and fail at this often, but when it works, it’s a very special night of theatre. 

Whatever your personal resolutions are, we wish you all the best with them and wish everyone a very happy new year!