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On why Google Maps doesn't work on Mac

A couple weeks ago, I wrote an article on mapping a single address using the Google Maps API in FileMaker.  It concluded that the the obvious technique, simply building a correctly-formatted JavaScript page and displaying it in the Web Viewer with a data:url, wouldn't work on MacOS X.  In this article, I'd like to delve into the technical reasons I this doesn't work.  Read on if you're so inclined...

A tale of font woes in FileMaker

The recent release of FileMaker Pro 10 is very exciting.  However, it got me thinking about a font problem I recently had and I began wondering if FileMaker, Inc., might have fixed the issue in the new release...

 

Bones Module: Development Release for Drupal 6

The initial release of the Bones Module for Drupal 6 is now available at http://drupal.org/project/bones. Functionally it is more or less identical to the original Drupal 5 release, with updates to the internal Menu API code.

The Bones Module facilitates rapid site wireframing by importing YAML outlnes.

Building out Drupal module interfaces with a stub function

A technique that I’m finding quite useful during module development is to create a “stub” function for use as a generic interface callback for menu items that I want to define, but haven’t yet written callbacks for. For example, if I were building a Drupal 5 module called widgetmaster, I would define:

Searching the Drupal Database by Regular Expression

I found myself wanting to use regular expressions to find some imported Drupal nodes containing broken old image paths. Naturally, I went looking for a module that might accommodate me and I did find the Scanner module. Unfortunately the site I was working with is in Drupal 6, and I didn't have the time to work on a Drupal 6 port of what looks like a pretty sophisticated module just to find a few nodes.