Geist Interactive believes in education. That’s why we commit so many resources to teaching everything we know about building valuable applications and digital experiences with the FileMaker platform. And it’s also why we helped found and directly support One Spark Academy, a non profit learning center for middle school age kids in Thousand Oaks, CA. […]
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That’s right, it is time for Geist Interactive’s Awesome Cyber Monday Sale All of our products, renewals, and implementation packages are discounted big time! If the above image doesn’t get you excited, I don’t know what will! Act fast. This sale is going on for a limited time! There’s NO CODE needed. When you add items to your shopping […]
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In the past year and a half here at Geist Interactive, I’ve been tasked with some development work that involves connecting to various APIs. I’ve written modules for clients that get definitions, other forms, synonyms and antonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms of a term from the client’s internal dictionary and such public dictionaries such as Oxford […]
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We at Geist Interactive have released a new podcast (well new in the last eight weeks): The Context Podcast.
Our podcast is focused on higher-level discussions of the FileMaker platform. We discuss (and embrace) innovation and technology inside and outside of FileMaker. We talk with guests from all around the community about their thoughts on whatever topic is on deck. We also try to ask the guest their thoughts on the context of certain techniques we use in our projects.
So far we've
FileMaker DevCon 2019 is done, over, kaput. The FileMaker & JavaScript training session we led during the conference brought over 100 people together to learn the basics of JavaScript inside of FIleMaker. It was a long day of learning and stumbling and success, and many of the attendees found a lot of value in it. […]
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Introducing the Context Podcast: talking about all things Innovation in FileMaker and beyond.
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At FileMaker DevCon 2019, I led over one hundred FileMaker developers in six hours of learning and working with JavaScript. It was a good day. We learned a lot. We made lots of mistakes. We fixed those mistakes. We felt pangs of frustration with the web viewer object. And we shouted with satisfaction when we […]
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Geist Interactive Team wins two FBA Excellence Awards at the FileMaker 2019 DevCon
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Otto 2.1.5 includes an App Store. You can instantly install 3rd Party applications on your Otto powered FileMaker Server with a single click, making it super easy to demo interesting applications.
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Geist Interactive's DevCon 2019 Sale is back and better than ever. Get 20% off products in our store. If your order total is $3000 or more you'll get an additional 10% off. That adds up to 30% off. Implementation Packages are 10% off. The discount will be automatically applied when you check out.
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The FileMaker Workplace Innovation Platform is the perfect tool to build all or parts of the Custom Application Network that every business has.
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FileMaker DevCon 2019 training session on JavaScript will dive deep. If you're attending or considering the training, read this and get yourself ready.
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WidgetStudio, the best tool out there to create and customize and deploy FileMaker web viewer widgets, is only a few months old. Yet its creator, Carson Lind of Eagle Optimizations, has added many new features to the dev tool. His goal was to make it easier to create and customize widgets. And he did so […]
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Today our FileMaker DevOps tool , Otto, gets a big upgrade; automated offsite backups to any S3 compatible storage service.
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The transactional method of working with records has one goal: to ensure all changes to records (additions, changes, or deletions) are done at once or not at all. We’ve talked about this before. The transactional method prevents some records in a discrete set (such as invoices and invoice line items) from being changed while others […]
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I am continuing my study of the new FileMaker 18 functions. We see this new release as a continuation of the dramatic change in FileMaker as a platform. Todd calls this new release the “End of the Beginning”. Therefore, it’s important to take a look at what’s new and see how game-changing each feature is. […]
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In this post Jeremy explores the new FileMaker write data to file set of script steps. He recorded himself exploring the workflow for the first time. It's a fun, weird video in which he learns a lot.
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FileMaker DevCon 2019 is fast approaching. There’s less than three months left, and we at Geist Interactive are busy, getting ready for the conference. Todd Geist and myself–Jeremy Brown–will attend (this will be our 20th and 8th time respectively) and spread the good word about JavaScript and the Workplace Innovation platform. We will be busy […]
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FileMaker Pro 18 Advanced brings welcome security changes that continue its transition into a first class web platform. Read on to learn about what's new.
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FileMaker 18 is here. It's the "End of the Beginning" for the leading Workplace Innovation Platform. Read Todd's thoughts about this newest version.
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It is important to end a FileMaker transaction strongly with the proper tests and possible logging. Read here to learn how.
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It is possible to perform FileMaker transactions without portals. In this post we'll take a look at that very possibility and review how it works.
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The FileMaker transaction process is really fairly simple in execution. We can use a portal to change multiple records. In this post we will take a look at the process and details about each step.
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FMPerception is useful in a FileMaker code review. Participants can review the report and dive deep into the file using this realtime developer intelligence tool. Listen in on a conversation between a mentor and mentee.
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Starting a FileMaker transaction is just as important the transaction itself. Let's take a look at what you can do to get started on the right foot.
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