Author: Frank van der Most

FileMaker developer, Adult fan of LEGO, nature conservationist - not necessarily in this order

Measuring FileMaker’s speed with FileMaker: The measuring influences the measurement

July 24, 2025

The past few years, I’ve become increasingly more interested in FileMaker’s speed. Recently, I learned that FileMaker was known to slow down in long running scripts. I wanted to know more about that, which in turn got me interested in speed measurement. This post will go into the effect that the measuring system influences the measurement. … More Measuring FileMaker’s speed with FileMaker: The measuring influences the measurement

Table Stitcher : a no-code, documenting, data blending solution

March 14, 2023

In this text, I will explain a common data problem that the sea turtle researchers at Osa Conservation asked me to solve. The solution is a so-called data blending tool to not just stitch data from multiple tables together, but also to address differences in data formatting, and to keep track and automatically document all modifications in metadata output files. … More Table Stitcher : a no-code, documenting, data blending solution