An insert from URL or fetch from URL allows filemaker to hit a rest-ful service apparently since FM 2103. Here are some things you need to know

• don’t pre-encode anything but & and = (and %)
• json? Well – stick with xml if possible
• a FM talk about importing with post. It, under the hood, is really LOOK like a GET inside FM , but outside, it is 100% post.

I am trying to understand some performance metrics. To start, I am looking at disk i/o between 2 timestamps. Lets see how that goes.

• Performance Monitoring Getting Started Guide (2012) perfmon.msc

• Monitoring Your Windows Server Metrics with WMI WMI (underlying tech) and PerfMon (GUI) are related

• Looks like there are few native apps -not sure how they are connected.  Windows Performance Analyzer – WMA
• WQL WMI QUERY FOR DISK I/O
• WMI queries from the command line (Rob van der Woude’s Scripting Pages
• Is there a way to query WMI without using PowerShell or CIM Studio?  (recommended wmic, wbemtest, some ps and vbscripts
• what is this WPA? It is NOT WMA. Watch the video at that link

So, I HAVE to bite the bullet. A colleague of mine started using it 3 months ago, another SQL mentor has been badgering me to use it (and to love bitcoin) for a LONG while. Today, I will record links to some basic looping structures. This is like unix (a good thing) but object oriented with full API access it seems. Neat! And … I am hooked now even if I am a late adopter and am finally giving up dos scripts (yet I am a unix shell junkie) 🙁

• adding to your path variable
• Run a simple command using PowerShell recursively on a directory

My final commands were

dir -recurse -include *.xec | %{pdt -fo $_.FullName}
dir -recurse -include *.xe* | %{migratedsp -f $_.FullName -dest $_.DirectoryName}

where pdt is the .exe file that does something to the filenames. Note that % is a short form of foreach. The object that has the methods FullName and DirectoryName are listed on msdn and is the FileInfo class that we know and love in other scripting languages.