Blog Post

  • Meh, Service Workers may be god mode for QuickBase but it is so last year. My new branding is ELM. You guys may be futzing around with Angular or React but using ELM with QuickBase is going to be the next big thing.

  • Keep track of changes to your app with comments in field settings
    A new Comments tab appears in field settings. App builders can now add free-form, plain text comments (up to 500 characters in length) as notes to each field. Adding these comments to each field can let app builders document or notate the purpose of some or all fields.

    You can of course use these new comments to hold JavaScript or JSON and the values will show up in API calls such as API_GetSchema and API_GetFieldProperties in the XML response within the <comment> tag. Now you have 500 characters of user defined storage associated with every field in your applications! Used in conjunction with a Service Worker (or BOL) you could easily customize the form's operation in some way and be able to save the memory associated with the customization in the field itself. Excellent addition QuickBase.
  • >No one can say you are not committed to your brand, sir.

    You will notice that I have rebranded myself as mo_an the ultimate. I was going to do it earlier but I had a hard time finding the appropriate character that looked like a lambda and could be contorted into a d. But I found it the other day so game on:

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    coptic capital letter dalda (U+2C86)
    http://graphemica.com/%E2%B2%86

    I like it much - it has the lambda calculus, monad, and the more-dan meme all wrapped up in one short word.

    Things will never be the same once the QuickBase Monad lands on your planet.

  • Yep I re-branded myself as mo_an the ultimate to herald in an new epoch of QuickBase usage based on functional programming concepts. Advice Dog gave me the suggestion..
  • >No one can say you are not committed to your brand, sir.

    My focus group revealed that people were not groking on the "mo_an the ultimate" moniker so I re-branded to "_anom the ultimate (that's monad backwards)" and adopted the Writer Monad as my avatar: