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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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eXcelisys' Blog

FileMaker Pro Tips-n-Tricks: A New Home-Page for FileMaker Server 13

<h3>FileMaker Pro Tips-n-Tricks: A New Home-Page for FileMaker Server 13</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h4><b style="color: #000000;">Über Awesome Sauce for FileMaker Server 13</b></h4> <p style="color: #000000;">We’re going to take the original default index page on your FileMaker Server 13, and replace it with something a little more interesting, and a lot more useful.</p> <p style="color: #000000;">As I’m sure you’ll recognize
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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SeedCode

Data Modeling Sessions (my favorite)

The data modeling sessions at Pause have always had a big impact and so far there are some great ones planned for October in Portland. Dave Graham – Workforce.org : Let’s Party! – pitfalls and benefits to implementing a Party Model and generalized frameworks in FileMaker. Jason Young – SeedCode : Wet and Dry Development in FileMaker checking our assumptions Todd Geist – geistinteractive : Universal Context You can get there from here! Kevin Frank : Runtime Code – Blurring the distinction bet
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Blue Feather's Blog

Importing XML data into FileMaker using XSLT (XSL Style Sheets)

FileMaker is capable of importing data from many different sources. One of the most useful is importing from XML data sources, which can be a great way to get data from non-FileMaker resources into your database. XML is used by all sorts of programs and applications, and so you may encounter it when working with many non-filemaker services or data sources. About XML and XSLT XML is a standard way of making writing annotations about data, but each XML document can be formatted in completely d
Smef

Smef

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Blue Feather's Blog

Importing XML data into FileMaker using XSLT (XSL Transformations)

FileMaker is capable of importing data from many different sources. One of the most useful is importing from XML data sources, which can be a great way to get data from non-FileMaker resources into your database. XML is used by all sorts of programs and applications, and so you may encounter it when working with many non-filemaker services or data sources. About XML and XSLT XML is a standard way of making writing annotations about data, but each XML document can be formatted in completely d
Smef

Smef

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Linear Blue

Standards! Standards! Read All About It!

With FileMaker being such a versatile and quick development application it is often too easy to develop a functional solution with little regard for its legacy and, in particular, how the solution is to be supported, maintained and developed in the future. As developers, either commissioned or “in house” our support of a system may... Source
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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Linear Blue

Standards! Standards! Read All About It!

With FileMaker being such a versatile and quick development application it is often too easy to develop a functional solution with little regard for its legacy and, in particular, how the solution is to be supported, maintained and developed in the future. As developers, either commissioned or “in house” our support of a system may... View the full article
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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Thorsen Consulting

JumpStartFM, Molly Connolly’s one-month online FileMaker training course begins October 6, 2014

by JumpStartFM online FileMaker training course begins 10/6/14. Molly Connolly’s next one-month online FileMaker training course, JumpStartFM begins on October 6, 2014. Download the JumpStartFM.FAQ for more information. JumpStartFM is a great training resource for busy software developers. This month long, project-oriented course is taught by Molly Connolly, David Knight, Cris Ippolite, Matt Navarre and Debbie Zempel. Developers attend twelve online classes  and complete project work on their
mollyc

mollyc

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SeedCode

Hover Tricks for FileMaker Buttons

A couple of demos showing how you can reveal additional text, or even new buttons, when rolling over buttons in FileMaker 13. We used to hide text from some button states by making the text unusually large, but Jason Young showed us a much better method. More in the video below. Download the “Hover Tricks” example file towards the bottom of our downloads page. Want more? Subscribe to SeedCode for more tips. The post Hover Tricks for FileMaker Buttons appeared first on SeedCode. Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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eXcelisys' Blog

FileMaker Pro Progress Bar V3

V3 FileMaker Pro Progress Bar – Gangsta with Gradients! OK, one last riff on progress bars! The V2 FileMaker Pro Progress Bar demo file showed how to have the bar change color based on the percentage, such as changing the entire bar from green to yellow to red as the percentage increased. That approach has some good uses (showing how full a container is, for instance), but some people had something else in mind: having the bar incrementally change color as it progressed. In other words, a g
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Blue Feather's Blog

Fixed number of x-axis labels in a chart for any number of records

FileMaker has extremely functional charts, but one tricky part I’ve found is making the x-axis display in an appealing format. The values along the x-axis can overlapIf you have a lot of records. Summaries can help with this, but what if you don’t know how many points you’re going to have to plot, or the range which would need to be summarized? For example: A client of mine has an environment monitor that monitors temperature in a manufacturing facility to make sure it doesn’t get too war
Smef

Smef

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Blue Feather's Blog

Fixed number of x-axis labels in a chart for any number of records

FileMaker has extremely functional charts, but one tricky part I’ve found is making the x-axis display in an appealing format. The values along the x-axis can overlapIf you have a lot of records. Summaries can help with this, but what if you don’t know how many points you’re going to have to plot, or the range which would need to be summarized? For example: A client of mine has an environment monitor that monitors temperature in a manufacturing facility to make sure it doesn’t get too warm f
Smef

Smef

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SeedCode

The Running Test

Testing code is one thing, but how do we test our ideas. (I’m not talking about validating ideas with customers as in Lean Startup, but testing an idea against your gut. Is there a way to measure that?) When you’re small, opportunity costs are huge–your best customer is another customer you didn’t meet–so how do you know at a real gut level if you’re making a decision for the right reasons or if you’re reacting to fear? How you do test if you’re aligned with your idea? The Running Test is one
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker Weetbicks

Proper Printing in WebDirect

FileMaker WebDirect is the exciting new replacement to Instant Web Publishing. With it you can access your database via a web browser and do *almost* all of the things that you can do in FileMaker Pro. However proper printing is not one of them. In this article we present a framework and example file for doing proper printing via WebDirect - from basic record printing to complex sub-summary reports and more... Click to read the full article here!
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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eXcelisys' Blog

FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick – V2 FileMaker Pro Progress Bar

<h4 style="color: #000000;">By Andy Persons</h4> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2 style="color: #000000;">The Next Generation of the FileMaker Pro Progress Bar Using base64</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: #000000;">After we posted the FileMaker Pro 13 Progress Bar demo file using a base64 image last December, one frequent request we received was for a way to have the bar change color based on its percentage. For example, changing from gr
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Our #FileMakerDevCon Recap

<p>Confession: I'm late in writing this blog. After all, FileMaker's 2014 Developer Conference (DevCon) was 2+ weeks ago. Referring to <a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/who_we_are/meet_the_team/mark_richman/" target="_blank">Mark Richman's</a> common advice: <em>don't let perfect be the enemy of good</em>, I decided to write it anyway. It's still relevant and good news. I hope you agree. </p> <h4>DevCon in San Antonio</h4> <p>By all ac
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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SeedCode

JavaScript Functions in FileMaker

JavaScript Functions for Speed and Profit The movie below is from one of our most popular demos from “Year in Review” at DevCon 2014. I was talking about what a breakthrough custom functions were back in 2004 and how they unlocked a whole new kind of code-sharing among FileMaker developers. JavaScript functions in FileMaker may unlock even more potential. Jason Young introduced the idea of using JavaScript as a calculator–as a library of functions–instead of using it for perhaps the more obvio
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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SeedCode

20% Off DevCon Sale Continues

If you couldn’t make it to DevCon, SeedCode is extending our 20% off sale on all templates and add-ons through this week (August 8th). That’s 20% off our Pro Calendar (with WebDirect support), ProMaps, and 20% off the new faster GoZync for syncing FileMaker Go. See all products on sale Implementation packages are not on sale. Please get in touch if you have questions: we’re here to help. The post 20% Off DevCon Sale Continues appeared first on SeedCode. Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Skeleton Key's Blog

FileMaker STL Meetup: Join Us For DevCon Recap

<p><a href="http://www.meetup.com/FileMaker-STL/"><img class="wp-image-1103 size-medium" src="http://www.skeletonkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Untitled-copy-300x83.jpg" alt="FileMaker STL" width="300" height="83" /></a> </p> <p>You are invited to <a href="http://www.meetup.com/FileMaker-STL/" target="_blank">join</a> our local FileMaker User Group. This group is for experienced FileMaker Devs, FileMaker users who've poked around under the
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Linear Blue

SEO and Why Content Is King

Practically every web developer, blogger and SEO specialist on the internet talks about how content is king, but what do they really mean? Thousands of websites and blogs are updated every day and every single one of these websites is crawled over by Google to find the keywords, content and to see if there have... Source
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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Linear Blue

SEO and Why Content Is King

Practically every web developer, blogger and SEO specialist on the internet talks about how content is king, but what do they really mean? Thousands of websites and blogs are updated every day and every single one of these websites is crawled over by Google to find the keywords, content and to see if there have... View the full article
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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Thorsen Consulting

FileMaker: How to Hire a Junior Developer

by   Molly Connolly’s presentation, “How to Hire a Junior Developer,” provides valuable insights on hiring, training, and evaluating junior FileMaker developers. Click the image below to view the presentation on the FileMaker Technical Network:       by View the full article
mollyc

mollyc

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SeedCode

DevCon Meditation Challenge

With so much going on at DevCon–and so many friends to catch up with–it can be tempting to put yourself on auto-pilot for the whole conference, just reacting to what’s around you. You can feel a little aimless that way. And you can miss things. You’ve sacrificed a lot to be here so double-down on that commitment: join the DevCon Meditation Challenge and see what it does for you. This even works if you’re not at DevCon =)Folks who take up the challenge will take time to meditate on their own, f
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Skeleton Key's Blog

We’re headed to DevCon 2014

<p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/SK_DevConBlogCollage1.jpg" class="gallery_colorbox"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1240" src="http://www.skeletonkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/SK_DevConBlogCollage1-300x300.jpg" alt="SK_DevConBlogCollage1" width="300" height="300" /></a></p> <p>Mark Richman, President (top, right), Greg Lane, VP of Application Development (bottom, left), and Chris Schmitz Certified Developer
Skeleton Key

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