Coding Efficiency
One of the great things about being a developer is finding flow. It’s that feeling when you’re cranking out code, accomplishing one task after another, and time seems to fade into the background - you’re in the zone. However, a few things can really disrupt your flow, and one of the biggest culprits is your development environment.
If your syntax highlighting doesn’t work, or your environment slows you down, productivity takes a hit. That’s why one of the best things any coder can do is optimize their development environment for efficiency.
In FileMaker, there’s no traditional “code editor” per se. Instead, there’s a dialog box called the Calculation dialog box - sometimes labeled Specify Calculation or Edit Expression, depending on the context. Regardless of the name, this one dialog is where you’ll spend most of your time coding. The goal, then, is to make this area - and the Script Workspace (known as ScriptMaker for those who remember the early days) - as efficient as possible.
In this video, I walk through the tools I use to make the FileMaker environment as coding-friendly and efficient as possible.
Comments
Great 3rd party tools
As always, excellent video Matt. As developers we don't often get "time" to look into these wonderful very efficient tools. Thank you for showing these tools as it makes it a lot easier to be as "efficient" as possible making one a better and "speedier" developer when moving around the environment.
Can we now call you Matt "the MAPPING Whisperer" Petrowsky? ;)
Dominick Capobianco
Apple Scripts
Hey Matt! Toward the end you mentioned the apple scripts being on the article page but having trouble locating them. Can you help point me in the right direction?
Awesome vid
Been waiting to see more on how you manage to scoot around FM so fast since the typinator got shown off last year - cheers