Party time
Today we celebrate the 25 years of Monkeybread Software
We look forward to meet a lot of clients, friends and family. See you later today!
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Time goes by quickly. It's already a year since the last Xojo conference hosted by Monkeybread Software. Since Xojo Inc. didn't put up their own conference and I didn't see someone else organize one and several people asked me about when the next conference is, I started thinking about making one. This would be my 14th.
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We got asked by clients for support contracts or options. In general we offer support to all our clients at a best effort level. You know, as time permits. Usually that tends to be within minutes or hours when someone is in the office. But sometimes when traveling, vacation, holidays or similar, there is a delay. And some more complex support requests may take days until we get an answer.
Our clients in general appreciate our responsiveness. We get praises about having a very complete documentation and functions working as advertised or documented.
Since we got asked, we will introduce a priority support level. If you get priority support for a fee, we make sure your support requests are flagged as important and answered quicker. Usually this may not make a difference, except when time for support is tight and we have to pick who to answer first.
Our priority support comes in two variants. General MBS Plugin support and separated DynaPDF support. And if you order priority support for DynaPDF, we include the priority support from DynaForms with 24h reaction time and 7 days fix time.
Beside standard or priority support, there is also paid support available. Some clients prefer to pay by the hour to get their problems resolved or a helping hand implementing a plugin feature.
We'll see how well this is received and appreciated.
Let us know if you have a question.
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This year in early April our company turned 25 years old.
We plan to have a party here in Germany near our office with around 100 guests.
Today we emailed everyone who is on the guest list. If you do not receive an email today or lost your invitation, please contact us.
So far it looks like our party will be the biggest Xojo developer conference this year. For FileMaker, it will be the second biggest gathering of FileMaker developers behind the German FileMaker Konferenz.
We look forward to meet you guys and celebrate!
(more)Rendering text in a PDF might seem straightforward—until you try working with languages like Arabic or Hebrew. These languages require more than just placing characters from left to right. Without proper handling, the result can be unreadable or even misleading.
Let’s look at how DynaPDF handles this challenge using Bidirectional (Bidi) Mode and Complex Text Rendering.
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Over time, we’ve built a few web forms—some simple, some more complex. Unfortunately, bots love web forms. They fill them out with spam, test vulnerabilities, or just cause general headaches. If you’ve ever maintained a form in production, you know exactly what I mean.
To cut down on junk submissions, we’ve implemented a few strategies that have worked well for us. These aren’t foolproof, but they definitely raise the bar and help filter out a lot of automated noise.
(more)Today we like to connect to a DuckDB database from FileMaker using the SQL functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin. For that we need the client libraries for DuckDB, but where to get them?
For macOS you can use homebrew to install the duckdb package. Then you get the duckdb library installed.
You find the library on an Apple Silicon Mac:
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/duckdb/1.2.1/lib/libduckdb.dylib
For an Intel Mac, you find it in the /usr/local folder in a sunfolder.
(more)Today we like to connect to Postgres Database server from FileMaker using the SQL functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin. For that we need the client libraries for Postgres, but where to get them?
For macOS you can download the Postgres App to get a local test server for Postgres on your Mac. You can directly point to the libpq.5.dylib within the application.
We adjusted the install names to make them work into the Frameworks folder of your application. The libpq library needs crypto and ssl libraries, so these must be in the same folder. We got the libraries here for you: PostgreSQL Libraries. You can store these for example in the Extensions folder next to our plugin.
(more)We are glad to inform you that the new LibXL version 4.6.0 is available now.
What's new in the version 4.6.0:
The LibXL library can be used with MBS Plugins in Xojo and FileMaker. Updated plugins will be available soon. As usual we add the new functions soon. If you need help or want to try the new version early, let me know.
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This month we celebrate 25 years of Monkeybread Software.
In April 2000 I started my self employment with filling the business registration form. Originally I coded shareware applications, but since I got consulting clients in 2000 and needed to write invoices, I had to start a company and register as a business.
In 2001 we needed more and more plugins in REALbasic for the various projects. We got a lot of plugins from Einhugur back then and Björn is still making Xojo plugins as of today! Since we needed more, I went into learning C++ and started my own plugin collection. Thanks to Thomas Tempelmann and others for some help to get started. Over the years we (co-)hosted 13 European Xojo conferences to bring together the developer community.
Later in 2006 we started the adventure into making a plugin for FileMaker. A couple of people asked over the years to port over some functions from my Xojo plugins to FileMaker and eventually Todd Geist persuaded me into making one. It took a few years to grow, but the popularity really toke off when I went to the FileMaker Konferenz 2012 in Salzburg and the FileMaker DevCon in 2013 in San Diego. Once people saw the plugin, they loved it and our business grew.
The Monkeybread Software name came from Matt Ronge, my former US business partner. We separated a few years later and he's now busy as the Cofounder and CEO of Astropad.
There will be a big party here near the office and we invited hundreds of clients, friends and family. If you like to join and you miss an invitation, you can contact us and ask whether your invitation got lost.
If you need a new license for MBS Plugins, we have a special offer for April: Use coupon code Birthday for a 20% discount.
See you at the party or the next conference!