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  • Josh Ormond

    A Conversation About '2 Factor Authentication'

    By Josh Ormond

    [ Edit: 3/16/2016 - With the help of some other people, we have been able to recover, or recreate some of the original images from original thread. ] Security is always a big topic when it involves data, or people, or possessions. Recently, over on the FileMaker Community, there was a very beneficial discussion regarding security. Unfortunately, that discussion was the victim of a necessary action...and was deleted. It was deleted, because the discussion was tied to a video that, as was det
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  • Steven H. Blackwell

    Hacking Your Own FileMaker Platform Solutions

    By Steven H. Blackwell

    Hacking Your Own FileMaker Platform Solutions Should FileMaker Platform developers mount hacking attacks on their own solutions? At first glance, this may seem an odd question. But I believe that the answer is “Yes, we should.” Consider this. As developers we see our solutions from a totally different perspective than Threat Agents see them. Without practicing our own hacking skills, we can become blind to the vulnerabilities a Threat Agent can exploit to compromise the Confidentiality
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HOnza's Bits @ FMForums

Custom Function Optimized to Evaluate Hundreds Times Faster

Two weeks ago I wrote an article about a FileMaker custom function I needed to preprocess some data imported from the web. I used this custom function in an auto-enter calculation to immediately preprocess the data while being imported. I created a server-side script that does the import every morning. But when I discovered that the import was taking over an hour every day, I saw it deserves some optimization. I used FM Bench Detective and optimized the custom function to evaluate up to several
HOnza

HOnza in Performance Tuning

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FileMaker Security Blog

Locks, Keys, and Lock-Picking

Locks, Keys, and Lock-Picking By Steven H. Blackwell Platinum Member Emeritus, FileMaker Business Alliance Recently, an experienced FileMaker Pro developer posed a question on developer group list about the behavior of FileMaker Pro files. Paraphrased, that question is as follows: We've come across a small, but possible, security issue.

 If a user has clicked the "Remember my password in my keychain", 
anyone can log in to the FMP system if the person has access t
Steven H. Blackwell

Steven H. Blackwell

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FileMaker Hacks

Birthday Challenges, part 2

Dear FileMaker Hacks, In my personnel database, how can I find all birthdays in a given range, for example, between September 8 and November 15? — Perplexed in Peoria Dear Perplexed, You do come up with some interesting questions. As I recall from our previous correspondence, you are in the US, where dates are formatted [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FileMaker Hacks

Birthday Challenges, part 1

Dear FileMaker Hacks, My personnel database has a scripted routine that locates all employees with birthdays in the current month, like so: When I sent a copy of the database to our sister organization in Australia, the scripted routine did not function properly for them. Could it have something to do with their computer expecting [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FileMaker Weetbicks

Simple Truncated Displaying of Long Lists (+more)

Displaying a long list of items on a layout generally means that the majority of the list is hidden from the user until they click into the field, with no feedback as to the size of the list. This article details a nice technique you can use to present the same list in a truncated style that gives live feedback on the number of items. Read the Full Article Here…
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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SeedCode

Rotation in Go and GoZync

Here is a short video showing how we’re collapsing GoZync’s left hand side bar as you rotate your iPad. For another gorgeous example of this technique, and more details, check out Yann Liqueur-Salzedo’s work here. Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker Weetbicks

The Search for Fast Aggregates - Implementation & Results

In the final part of this two part series, we go into a little more detail about the aggregate technique we developed in the first article. We also carry out a number of comparison aggregate tests and present the results. We also try to address some of the limitations of this technique and ways in which you could try to work around these… Read the Full Article Here…
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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FileMaker Security Blog

Did You Hear What I Said?

July 26th 2011 Did You Hear What I Said? By Steven H. Blackwell News media on both sides of the Atlantic were all agog last week over the alleged hacking of cellular phone voice mail accounts of politicians and crime victims by reporters of the now defunct News of the World tabloid. These are serious matters, and much of the coverage has been appropriately professional. Other media coverage however can be characterized in my view as lurid and as having an undertone of “Lo
Steven H. Blackwell

Steven H. Blackwell

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SeedCode

DevCon Schedule in iCal

For anyone heading to the show, we’ve published the DevCon Schedule out to Google Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/u7govide9q9ihq3al95gm7ja4o%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics From FileMaker, via Zulu of course. Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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HOnza's Bits @ FMForums

5 reasons for not attending FileMaker DevCon

To attend or not to attend? That’s the question I am asking myself every year since 2002 when I attended my first FileMaker DevCon. I have attended 8 DevCons so far, and skipped one. I have identified the following 5 possible reasons for not attending: Attending DevCon costs a lot of money Traveling to DevCon costs a lot of money Staying at DevCon's location costs a lot of money Going to DevCon takes a lot of time when I cannot do my regular work The sessions
HOnza

HOnza in Claris Engage

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HOnza's Bits @ FMForums

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion – Upgrade or Wait?

Everyone is excited about Lion. Even though many new features on Mac OS X 10.7 are giving us improvements we kept asking for since 10.1, Apple has again succeeded in giving all the new features the strong essence of innovation that makes us unable to hesitate to install and try Lion out as soon as we are able to. But we are also afraid. What if some important apps stop working? Read more in my article. Alredy updated with links to other resources and opinions...
FileMaker Weetbicks

Producing Pretty Portal Pagination

Navigation of portals in FileMaker is a pretty simple affair, you either have a scrollbar, or you don't. In this article we demonstrate another way to navigate portals using a pagination style. We also demonstrate how it can be implemented at the relationship level, or the portal level using filtering. Read the Full Article Here…
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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FileMaker Security Blog

Back Me Up, Don’t Take Me Out, Are You Never Gonna Do That?

Back Me Up, Don’t Take Me Out, Are You Never Gonna Do That? --By-- Steven H. Blackwell June 13th 2011 Well, with apologies to Emilia De Poret, this adaptation of her hit song’s title pretty well describes the system and process of FileMaker Pro file backups. Most all developers and IT Administrators who design or manage FileMaker solutions and deploy them in conjunction with FileMaker Server understand that a good backup system is absolutely one of several major requirement
Steven H. Blackwell

Steven H. Blackwell

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FileMaker Weetbicks

Building a Navigation System Part Two - Taking it Further

In part one, we built a basic navigation bar made from repeating fields. In this followup article we take the formatting of the navigation bar further by introducing highlights. We also adjust the construction of the navigation, and introduce a custom menu implementation that can be used in conjunction with, or in place of the navigation bar. Read the Full Article Here…
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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FileMaker Weetbicks

Super Fast Record Display in Descending Creation Order

When FileMaker sorts records it happens on the client machine. Consequently, sorting can be a very painful process for users over a slow connection to a database. In this article we show a very fast way in which records can be presented to the user in descending creation order, without sorting delays...   Read the Full Article Here…
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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Wing Forward Solutions

Workarounds

…are great.  Of course.  And necessary.  Of course.  Too often i spend time and energy railing against the powers that be to change their application/service/website to meet my individual needs.  “This app should let me do this!  Why doesn’t it?  Will there be an update to address this?  I should write support and have them fix it.” Okay, i’ll let you all in on what i’m talking about.  We use Google Apps here at Wing Forward.  I’m sure we’re not alone in this.  Google Docs, in particular, is a
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Wing Forward Solutions

Workarounds

…are great.  Of course.  And necessary.  Of course.  Too often i spend time and energy railing against the powers that be to change their application/service/website to meet my individual needs.  “This app should let me do this!  Why doesn’t it?  Will there be an update to address this?  I should write support and have them fix it.” Okay, i’ll let you all in on what i’m talking about.  We use Google Apps here at Wing Forward.  I’m sure we’re not alone in this.  Google Docs, in particular, is a
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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FileMaker Security Blog

The Power and Advantages Of External Server Authentication With FileMaker Server

The Power and Advantages Of External Server Authentication With FileMaker Server By Steven H. Blackwell May 9th 2011 Since the advent of FileMaker® Server 7 in 2004, FileMaker developers have been able to employ External Server Authentication for controlling Identity and Access Management to FileMaker files when hosted by FileMaker Server. Yet, either from lack of knowledge or from incorrect assumptions about the process, many do not employ this powerful option.
FileMaker Weetbicks

Making Your Windows Self-Aware (Mac Only!)

In this article the term "self-aware window" refers to a FileMaker window that can know in real-time whether or not it is the currently selected window, and act accordingly. We introduce a technique for allowing individual windows to calculate this, and some examples of what windows could do with that knowledge. Read the Full Article Here…
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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FileMaker Weetbicks

Integrating Image Maps in FileMaker

In this article I demonstrate how you can use image maps with web viewers in FileMaker. In doing so, you can display images that, when clicked, can report the coordinate chosen back to FileMaker to handle in whichever manner you wish… Read the Full Article Here…
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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