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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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Proof+Geist

Using DataTables in FileMaker

Using DataTables in FileMaker is an innovative way to provide a full set of functionality with very little set up time. Here we explore how to set it up. The post Using DataTables in FileMaker appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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Proof+Geist

DevCon 2018 Training Day: A lot of us want to learn JavaScript

Training Day at DevCon 2018 finally arrived, and I was ready. After fretting over my ‘lesson plan‘ for so long, I was ready to do some FileMaker DevCon JavaScript training, for FileMaker developers. So I left the breakfast room and entered my classroom. I was hoping to get some moments of calm before we started. […] The post DevCon 2018 Training Day: A lot of us want to learn JavaScript appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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Proof+Geist

DevCon 2018 Training Day: A lot of us want to learn JavaScript

Training Day at DevCon 2018 finally arrived, and I was ready. After fretting over my ‘lesson plan‘ for so long, I was ready to do some FileMaker DevCon JavaScript training, for FileMaker developers. So I left the breakfast room and entered my classroom. I was hoping to get some moments of calm before we started. […] The post DevCon 2018 Training Day: A lot of us want to learn JavaScript appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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eXcelisys' Blog

Custom Web App Keeps ASAP Aquatics from Drowning in Paperwork

Pond Care Company Uses FileMaker Pro with Field-Synced iPads to Deliver Photos & Service Records to Office Staff & Clientele; System Eliminates Paperwork & Improves Customer Communications ASAP Aquatics is located in Indianapolis. Lakes and ponds are lovely … when they are lovely. But not so much when frothy slicks of fluorescent algae bloom all over the surface. To fix this problem, the people of Central Indiana rely on ASAP Aquatics. Founded in 1996, ASAP Aquatics offers algae
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Wing Forward Solutions

DevCon 2018 Review

DevCon 2018 was held at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center win Dallas, Texas from August 6th through the 9th and it was a great event. The Gaylord Texan (GT) is a destination unto itself. It’s enormous with several acres of open ground enclosed by a dome and a combination of a convention hotel and a family destination. There were a couple other conferences going on, including, notably, QuakeCon with hundred of video game fans hauling their heft PC towers and giant monitors through t
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Wing Forward Solutions

DevCon 2018 Review

DevCon 2018 was held at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center win Dallas, Texas from August 6th through the 9th and it was a great event. The Gaylord Texan (GT) is a destination unto itself. It’s enormous with several acres of open ground enclosed by a dome and a combination of a convention hotel and a family destination. There were a couple other conferences going on, including, notably, QuakeCon with hundred of video game fans hauling their heft PC towers and giant monitors through t
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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eXcelisys' Blog

Penny Newman Grain Co.

Penny Newman Grain Co. CLIENT Penny Newman Grain Co. DATE 2012 TAGS Agriculture, Consulting, Database, Design-Development, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Pro, Mobile Applications, Synchronization About Penny Newman Grain Co. Penny Newman Grain Inc. is a grain/feed supplier to the cattle and livestock industry. Challenge: Penny Newman had an idea to try and convert their dealers from paper-based reportin
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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FileMaker Magazine

Reusable Dialogs

Card windows will continue to impact our FileMaker solutions for years to come. Released in FileMaker 16, who would have thought that simply creating a new way to draw windows would be so empowering. We've long been able to create modal windows which force user interaction - but taking off the title bar and dimming the background window was all it took to make things much more powerful. So, what is the most common thing you can do with a card window? Well, create a reusable dialog box of course
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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Proof+Geist

DevCon Sale Extended Through Friday

DevCon was such a huge blast that we are extending our DevCon Sale through this Friday. You can get 20% off all the products in our store. The post DevCon Sale Extended Through Friday appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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Proof+Geist

DevCon Sale Extended Through Friday

DevCon was such a huge blast that we are extending our DevCon Sale through this Friday. You can get 20% off all the products in our store. The post DevCon Sale Extended Through Friday appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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Proof+Geist

FIleMaker DevCon 2018: Community || Sessions || FileMaker

FileMaker DevCon is my favorite time of the year. More than Christmas or even a vacation, I enjoy the deep dive into FileMaker for an entire week. The pool in the lavish hotel is a distant thought; I'd rather focus my time and energy on the technology and the community that makes up FileMaker. The post FIleMaker DevCon 2018: Community || Sessions || FileMaker appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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Proof+Geist

FIleMaker DevCon 2018: Community || Sessions || FileMaker

FileMaker DevCon is my favorite time of the year. More than Christmas or even a vacation, I enjoy the deep dive into FileMaker for an entire week. The pool in the lavish hotel is a distant thought; I'd rather focus my time and energy on the technology and the community that makes up FileMaker. The post FIleMaker DevCon 2018: Community || Sessions || FileMaker appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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Wing Forward Solutions

Fasting

In the blogs and forums I favor, there’s a buzz over the past few years about “intermittent fasting”.  The idea is that not eating all the time is healthy. As far as physical and emotional health benefits, the pop science seems intriguing and it meets my common sense filters, so why not try it? There’s a few different versions. 16/8 is popular. That’s where you only eat in the same 8 hour window each day. Say, from 10 AM to 6 PM. That’s sounds helpful, something I would call “time-restricted ea
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Wing Forward Solutions

Fasting

In the blogs and forums I favor, there’s a buzz over the past few years about “intermittent fasting”.  The idea is that not eating all the time is healthy. As far as physical and emotional health benefits, the pop science seems intriguing and it meets my common sense filters, so why not try it? There’s a few different versions. 16/8 is popular. That’s where you only eat in the same 8 hour window each day. Say, from 10 AM to 6 PM. That’s sounds helpful, something I would call “time-restricted ea
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Wing Forward Solutions

Modified timestamps and importing

At DevCon 2018, Molly Connolly led a session on data cleaning. During that session, there was a question of how to import data without updating the Modification timestamp. The goal is to display when a user last modified a record, not the developer. Two methods* of doing that were mentioned but there is another, more robust, answer. It’s simple and flexible: create an additional field that references the Modification Timestamp field and set a variable flag when you don’t want to update it. Le
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Wing Forward Solutions

Modified timestamps and importing

At DevCon 2018, Molly Connolly led a session on data cleaning. During that session, there was a question of how to import data without updating the Modification timestamp. The goal is to display when a user last modified a record, not the developer. Two methods* of doing that were mentioned but there is another, more robust, answer. It’s simple and flexible: create an additional field that references the Modification Timestamp field and set a variable flag when you don’t want to update it. Le
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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FileMaker Hacks

Thinking About JSON, part 3

This a quick followup to last month’s part 2, because today I want to to dig a little deeper into JSONSetElement and take a closer look at the first argument: As I wrote last time… Part of what makes JSONSetElement so powerful is that it can be used both to create new entries, and to […] View the full article
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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The Philosophy of FileMaker

Context and Relationships

Context is everything! Haven’t you ever had something you said taken out of context and then tried, desperately, to figure out how to get yourself out of the hole you just, inadvertently, dug for yourself? The same goes with relationships. In life, as in FileMaker, they can be tricky and, if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can get yourself in a whole mess of trouble. This article is really for newbies to FileMaker; anybody who has been working with FileMaker for a while will, or should, kn
John Mark Osborne

John Mark Osborne

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The Philosophy of FileMaker

Context and Relationships

Context is everything! Haven’t you ever had something you said taken out of context and then tried, desperately, to figure out how to get yourself out of the hole you just, inadvertently, dug for yourself? The same goes with relationships. In life, as in FileMaker, they can be tricky and, if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can get yourself in a whole mess of trouble. This article is really for newbies to FileMaker; anybody who has been working with FileMaker for a while will, or should, kn
John Mark Osborne

John Mark Osborne

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DB Services Blog

FM Quickstart 17

The latest and greatest version of FM Quickstart is now live! FM Quickstart is a free FileMaker CRM that’s fully customizable and works out-of-the-box with 8 main modules. Check out the article for a free download! https://dbservices.com/blog/fm-quickstart-17   dbservices.com
dbservices

dbservices in FileMaker CRM

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Blue Feather's Blog

Jesse Barnum, 360Works – AWS Services with Filemaker. Atlanta Developers Group 8/1/18

This presentation is NOT about how to run FileMaker Server or FileMaker Cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Instead, we will embark on a one hour tour of the incredibly powerful software as a service (SaaS) offerings from AWS. AWS is the largest cloud computing vendor in the world, with services such as real-time message queues, machine learning, and massive on-demand general computing services. You’ll learn how to interact directly with any of these services by sending AWS requests using the
Smef

Smef

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FileMaker Magazine

List Processing with Custom List

While FileMaker's calculation engine is super powerful for managing all kinds of unique calculations, the one thing it lacks is a feature for running a repetitive function across a range of data. This is certainly possible within the Scripting engine with the use of the ever wonderful Loop script step. However, as stated, there's no way to really process a range of data using just a function. Unless... you create your own or use one which has already been created. As it happens, there is just
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Hacks

Thinking About JSON, Part 2

This is a follow up to Thinking About JSON, Part 1. Last time we were primarily concerned with learning about JSON paths and structures, and reading JSON. This time around we’re going to look at creating and manipulating JSON. Demo file: winery-json.zip (If the above screen shot looks familiar you have a good memory, because […] View the full article
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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