Thursday, 24 January 2002

One thing that's slowly dawning on me is the idea of using Radio to deliver cached reports from remote FMpro databases (just like the news aggregator) and for searching etc to be performed on the cached information residing in the Radio object database which, of course, is sitting on the desktop and should therefore produce better performance. Chris Hansen and Brian Ablaza have both pointed me in this direction and I know Chris is doing some great stuff with Filemaker, XML and PHP. 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. 10:34:30 AM

I'm getting heaps of great email responses from this page. So many ideas floating around on this subject. For the moment I'm trying to stay focused and produce a Radio Tool to demonstrate the basic concept of using Radio as a client for Files served from Filemaker Pro using its 'web companion'. The tool is nearly done. There's just some tidying up to do and I've still got to figure the best way to publish to tool for others to try out. 10:19:15 AM

© Copyright 2002 Greg Smith.