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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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FileMaker Weetbicks

Weetbicks Trivia 1.0

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.
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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FileMaker Hacks

A Simple Backup Script, revisited

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 [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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SeedCode

Script Comments

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. Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Skeleton Key's Blog

MirrorSync | Synchronization | iPad | FM Academy | Laptop | 360Works

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
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Skeleton Key's Blog

ExecuteSQL Function | FileMaker Business Alliance Company | FileMaker Academy | Skeleton Key | Q&A

ExecuteSQL Function - FileMaker 12 Web Series Follow Up Q&A I was overwhelmed by the positive response to my 12 Days of FileMaker 12 - ExecuteSQL webinar. We received a lot of great questions during the session. I've included answers below for all of the questions we weren't able to address during the webinar. If you still have a question, feel free to contact us. Thanks to everyone who participated live or via the recording. If you missed it, you can still catch the recording at FM A
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Meet Our FileMaker Training Series Authorized Trainers | FileMaker Development Company | FileMaker Developers

Meet Our FileMaker 12 Training Series Authorized Trainers Alan Kirtlink, FileMaker Certified Developer, FileMaker Authorized Trainer Skeleton Key is pleased to announce that our certified developers, Mark Richman and Alan Kirtlink, are now FileMaker 12 Authorized Trainers after completing the requirements of FileMaker's instructor-led "Train the Trainer" course in April. Both Mark and Alan attended the Train the Trainer Course at FileMaker, Inc. headquarters in Santa Clara, Califo
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Hacks

Dwindling Value Lists, part 2

One thing I love about this blog is how much I learn from your comments. Having said at the end of part 1 that I couldn’t think of any serious use for a DVL on a check box set, Michael Rocharde kindly provided this example file (Conditionals), which I am sharing with his permission. This [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FileMaker Hacks

Dwindling Value Lists

A few months ago I mentioned “dwindling value lists” in passing, and said I would do a proper article on them at some point in the future. Well, then FM 12 was released and I went on an ExecuteSQL binge, so I’m just now getting around to honoring my promise. Dwindling Value Lists (DVLs) are [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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SeedCode

Skins

Love seeing what folks are doing to the look of our calendar! This cool skin is from Reis Adamson is Sydney who mapped the calendar to his own TASKS table and sent us this screen shot. Love the red. Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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RCC's FileMaker News and Bits

VTC.com QuickStart! – FileMaker Go 12 Training Course Now Available

Stephens City, VA (PRWEB) May 29, 2012 VTC.com and FileMaker developer Richard Carlton announce the release of QuickStart! – FileMaker Go 12 Training Course – designed to educate a typical FileMaker developer on the “ins” and “outs” of FileMaker Go 12 for the iPhone and iPad (http://www.filemaker.com/r/fm_go_pr) from FileMaker, Inc. Get a quick start into the world of FileMaker on the iPhone and iPad with VTC’s QuickStart! – FileMaker Go 12 training course. Detailed discussions include: Sleep/
Richard Carlton

Richard Carlton

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SeedCode

Case Study: Syncing On-Site Inspections

Using iPads, FileMaker 12, and GoZyc Just posted a great case study from the GoZync experts at FullCity Consulting. They’re taking water quality inspections offline on their iPads, the syncing the data–along with signatures and photos–back to the hosted solution as soon as they have cell signal. Check out the case study. Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Window Styles | FileMaker Business Alliance Company | FileMaker Academy | Skeleton Key | FileMaker 12

Window Styles - Bonus Topic 1 of 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series Great news! By popular demand, FM Academy added 3 sessions to the 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Series. Tuesday, May 22nd, marked Bonus Topic #1. Enhancements to the New Window script step will give developers much more control over new windows and their behavior. This webinar presented techniques for utilizing the new “Specify Advanced Styles” option to configure modeless document windows and modal dialog windows. We expl
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Hacks

FM 12 ExecuteSQL: Robust Coding, part 2

In part 1, I listed six scenarios that could potentially cause ExecuteSQL code to break: …and managed to get through the first five before running out of steam. This time, we’re going to look at #6 on the list, as well as some other observations, and I invite you to download and follow along in [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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SeedCode

SQL Love

Just got this from John Weinshel and had to share… “I love SQL, love that it’s as old as relational databases, sort of Codd’s afterthought. It’s like Freud, after describing his entirely new model of the universe, added a coda, psychoanalysis, for putting it to use. Except SQL is free and it works.” Priceless. Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker Weetbicks

Sweet Scrolling in FileMaker 12

Portal scrolling has always been a bit of a struggle in FileMaker Go up until the release of version 12. This article outlines some of the changes to portal scrolling in FileMaker Go 12 and we give a couple of examples how it can be set-up to give a very nice native-application look and feel. We also cover field scrolling. Click to read the full article!
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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FileMaker Hacks

FM 12 ExecuteSQL: Robust Coding, part 1

[Note: Some of the material in this article, and in today's demo file ExecuteSQL Sandbox, previously appeared in my March 2011 article, Custom Functions for Internal SQL.] The other day a colleague remarked, “You know, it’s going to be interesting to see if you SQL guys are still so excited about ExecuteSQL when something gets [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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SeedCode

SQL Explorer for FileMaker 12

Very proud to have shipped SQL Explorer, a tool for learning SQL (so you can use ExecuteSQL in FileMaker 12) using FileMaker metaphors you already know. You can learn more about the Explorer and download a copy here: SQLexplorer But I wanted to take a moment and point out three things that make this a new kind of product for us… 1. This is the first product we built using a FileMaker 12 theme. All the layouts in the solution are based on the Onyx theme, though we did add some of our ow
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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