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Part 2: What Should You Consider When Selecting a Development Partner? What Questions Might You Ask a Potential Developer?
Figuring out how to choose a great developer can be bewildering without some insight about what to look for. In this segment of our seven-part series on choosing and working with a custom app developer, we will eXplore some tips on how to vet developer candidates.
Hiring a developer is about creating a working relationship. You want someone who gets your business
Michael Layne from Gearbox Solutions presents on FileMaker’s new JSON functions. He does a deep dive into FileMaker’s new JSON functions and demos several examples of how they are using JSON for passing parameters, populating form data, validation and rollback, managing session info such as value lists as global. Michael also demos REST client and REST server with new data API.
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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
FileMaker offers many different options for charting, but if you need a chart that is not available in FileMaker, you should consider using Google Charts. Google Charts is a free Javascript framework that can be used in conjunction with web viewers in FileMaker to extend your charting capabilities: https://dbservices.com/articles/google-charts-in-filemaker/
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WidgetStudio makes it easy to use, design and share powerful interface widgets, like calendars, gauges, charts, and timers. Pick from the constantly growing set of included widgets or build your own. Freely share them with your customers or friends.
The post Announcing WidgetStudio – FileMaker WebViewer Widgets appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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As promised last time, today we’re going to look at a technique from Dr. Osamu Noda, which uses FM 12′s ExecuteSQL to create what appears to be a value list when in fact there are no value lists defined at all. This technique, like some of the others we’ve seen recently, is decidedly esoteric, but [...]
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FileMaker DevCon: My Rash is Gone...
I hope you had a great time at DevCon. I did and came home with a rash to prove it.
If you're anything like me, you've returned from DevCon and gotten back to your daily grind. You're doing what you do and all the high-mindedness of DevCon is gone - just like my rash.
Most of us leave DevCon with a list of things we want to try, practices we want to implement, routine processes we want to improve. Once we return home, we spend a day or two playing '
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One of the things I love about FileMaker is how many different ways there are to skin the proverbial cat. Following our recent look at “Magic Value Lists“, I received thought-provoking FileMaker 12 demos from John Ahn and Dr. Osamu Noda. I’m going to save Dr. Noda’s files for next time, but today we have [...]
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Did You Hear What Happened at DevCon?
FileMaker concluded its 17th annual Developer Conference aka DevCon on July 19th in Miami, Florida. This year’s conference did not disappoint, hosting a variety of interactive exhibitors, over 70 speaker sessions, vendor demonstrations, ‘unconference’ meetings, entertaining social events - all showcased at the infamous Fontainebleu Hotel surrounded by a beautiful beach resort.
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It consists of 6 features: customer database, quotes, invoices, reports, product list, and a to-do list. Quotes and invoices can be instantly emailed to customers including before & after pictures.
GoBillit was designed for on the go businesses in mind.
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Folks, we have a superb demo today (MagicValueList), which comes courtesy of Andries Heylen of BH&A… But first a bit of background. Prior to July 18, 2012, if anyone had told me you could base a value list on an unstored field, my response would have something along the lines of… What app are you [...]
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Just got this great screen shot from Shawn Mayers who has integrated our calendar into his solution.
Nice work! Here is what Shawn had to say about it:
I am working on a solution for a doctors office and one of the features is to have an electronic appointment book. I chose your solution, SeedCode Calendar, to made this request. I was excited about how smoothly the integration worked; so I am sending this email. I have attached a screen shot of what I am working on.
Thank you for d
We’re thrilled to announce all of our development team have passed the FileMaker 12 Certification Exam withimpressive results, making Linear Blue the largest FileMaker 12 Certified team in the UK. Remaining at the very forefront of the FileMaker Development Industry is key to our company ethos, ensuring cutting edge database solutions are consistently delivered to our clients. We have tested and analysed the...
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of co-presenting a DevCon “Unconference” session with John Ahn on the topic of ExecuteSQL. I wasn’t sure if there would be much interest in this somewhat geeky subject, but the room was packed, and the audience ran the gamut from SQL newbies to SQL power users. We started out with a [...]
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The ostensible purpose of FM Chat is “chat” –letting your FileMaker users chat and collaborate in a searchable environment that respects FileMaker’s access privileges.
But we think the killer feature of FM Chat is “workflow” –alerting your users of events, and presenting them opportunities to take action.
We’ve recorded a short movie of a simple example: using FM Chat to send invitations to an event, and record who’s accepted:
Going Further. While we created the chat by hand in this
The other day I had a question about some nuance involving script triggers. The details of that particular question aren’t important, but I recalled that when script triggers were first introduced, Wim Decorte had produced a detailed, color-coded reference. I wondered if he had updated it for FM 12, and it turns out that he [...]
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What is Skeleton Key and FM Academy Doing at FileMaker Developer Conference 2012?
We're glad you asked!
Skeleton Key, a Platinum member of the FileMaker Business Alliance and Authorized Trainer will be participating as an exhibitor for the third year at FileMaker's annual Developer Conference. This year it will be held July 16-19, 2012, at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida.
We have a couple of updates for our colleagues, about our participation next week:
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Here is the 2012 DevCon schedule as an iCal subscription. Pumped out to Google Calendar from FileMaker Server using Zulu - iCal Sync for FileMaker. Enjoy!
https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/nsbmls3pfj5u4s0an1lcu4r3nc%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
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RCC is happy to announce the immediate availability of FM Starting Point 3.0v4. In this version, we updated the security settings when sending mail via SMTP. We also made a few minor under-the-hood fixes throughout the system. This update is not critical, but it is recommended for those who utilize the SMTP Emailing feature.
You can download your free copy of FM Starting Point at fmstartingpoint.com.
This update is also available to all localized versions of FM Starting Point at fmstartingp
FileMaker Trick : Help Me Help You
Accessing FileMaker's built-in Help is very useful; but, it can be a bit slow. This trick has saved me countless hours over the years when I have needed to reference the Help documents.
Please check out this brief video that I made of this quick-tip. It may prove to be valuable for you as well:
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A little while ago I received an e-mail asking for ideas on how to implement a multiple choice testing database. It just so happens that I had begun to build a database a few years ago which does just that. While it is not finished, I have decided to release a first version for people to download, dissect and use.
Click to read the article and download the database.
In October 2011 I posted a simple backup script that has made my development life easier, but of course that version was for .fp7 files only (the release of FM 12 being six months in the future), and when I began converting files to FileMaker 12, I realized that the backup script was not intelligently [...]
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We’ve started including FogBugz case numbers in our script comments. This lets us move between FBz and FileMaker pretty quickly: from FBz we can easily search* the scripts in FileMaker for the case number, landing right where we might need to make a change, and from FileMaker we can quickly paste the case number into FBz to see what someone’s question was, or what issue was resolved.
*Another place where script search has become part of the daily workflow.
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FM Academy Webinar - 360Works MirrorSync: Offline Synchronization for Your iPad and Laptop
Join Us Thursday, June 28th for a free one-hour webinar at 2pm (EST) / 1pm (CST) / 11am (PST). The topic is, 360Works MirrorSync: offline synchronization for your iPad and laptop. Register here.
MirrorSync from 360Works is a bidirectional synchronization tool for syncing FileMaker Server with offline databases running in FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Go. MirrorSync requires no plug-ins, runs on e
