FileMaker Success Tips, Date Range Overlap, Steve Jobs, and Gmail Fail
FileMaker Success Tips 384: Biz Politics, Comcast, Privilege Set Testing Repeat
One lesson from the podcast: Carefully read what you sign! It will save time and money.
Jeremy Brown dives into date range overlap: Determining if Two Date Ranges Overlap
All of the description above is sort of abstract. But this technique has potential to solve problems commonly found in FileMaker solutions. Here are a few.
- Ensure that an appointment for a person does not conflict with already existing appointments.
- Determine when two people are enrolled in the same course at the same time.
- Determine if two time-off requests for the same person overlap, or if two requests in the same department overlap.
I learned several new things about Steve Jobs in this article, all of them good: 6 Reasons Why Steve Jobs Was Truly One of a Kind
Gmail’s ‘Mic Drop’ prank backfires in a mortifying way, gets pulled
The problem with Mic Drop is that a lot of people inadvertently added the animated little guy to serious emails (see some particularly nasty examples, below).