Wednesday, January 23, 2002

"In Radio 8 terms, I'm starting to visualise Filemaker Pro and its 'web companion' as a sort of a 'cloud' element with regular updates, upstreaming etc all happening in the background and drive by the Radio Tool that I'm working on. I'm nearly sure this could be made to work OK. [Greg Smith: Filemaker2Radio]" Bingo That is precisely what my solution is doing. On the FM side, I have a database that keeps track of records that are dirty, update dates, stuff like that. In Frontier, a similar .root file that keeps tabs on what user records have dirty records, etc. Frontier controls the talk back and forth, upstreaming and downloading records, updating flags, timestamps, junk like that. The downstream could be RSS, but FM has it's own way of tossing data, so we make do. Upstream is scheduled, once per hour, to do the reverse. Data can be downloaded in batches as to not overwhelm either server. It's a lot like Radio. I'm curious to see what Frontier learns from Radio that I can steal! 9:39:46 PM

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