Issue 16.1 ("London 2017")

*Byte Order Marker* by Eugene Dakin

Unicode was supposed to solve all our text encoding problems, but there are tricky aspects. Find out what a BOM is and how to support it.

*From FileMaker to Xojo and Back Again* by Ulrich Bogun

Imagine the best of FileMaker and Xojo with none of the limitations. How is that possible? by using the two together, you can take advantage of the strengths of each!

*MBS London Conference 2017* by Richard Duke and Marc Zeedar

Did you go to the conference in London in November? Marc did, and he had a great time on his first-ever visit to England. Find out what you missed!

*Get Stock Prices with Xojo* by Marc Zeedar

There are web APIs for getting data on the Web, but sometimes data scrapping is easier. Marc demonstrates two methods of getting stock prices.

*A Model For Health* by JC Cruz

Jose shows how to design a proper data model for his previous Health Data project. He refactors the old code so you can see how to update an existing design.

*Plus:* Xojo 2017R3, disaster recovery, packaging Linux apps, scope, and more!