Naturally, our viewpoints are formed by our direct experiences, but the passage of time also affects our interpretation. Read More Categories Charting Examples, Code Examples, Cool Ideas, FileMaker Tags FileMakerįor this article I have taken a different approach, and offer up my current perspective on events in the history of data visualization and the FileMaker platform. There is nothing inherently wrong with plug-ins, of course - they simply provide a different set of advantages and drawbacks. It seems that Brian has always been keenly aware of market needs, and in the mid-1990s he applied his considerable technical talents towards addressing the unmet need for a charting solution that did not require a plug-in to function. So in this spirit and from the perspective of mid-2011, please enjoy my retrospective wanderings. Their successes became the foundation on which FileMaker charting rested for nearly a decade. In the early- and mid-1990s Reinhold Stadelmann and Brian Dunning were wrestling with Cartesian coordinate systems in an heroic fashion. The first makers of charts in FileMaker Pro truly were pioneers. Reaching back almost twenty years, I’ve been able to collect a few stories about those early days. To help us plot our trendline trajectory into the future, please accompany me on a short stroll down memory lane.
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