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A Conversation About '2 Factor Authentication'

By Josh Ormond February 8, 2016

[ 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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Hacking Your Own FileMaker Platform Solutions

By Steven H. Blackwell April 7, 2016

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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Marvelous Optimization #4 – Optimized Again

Last September I wrote an article about a custom function that I optimized to evaluate hundreds times faster. At the end of the article, I challenged my readers and myself by claiming that the already optimized custom function can be optimized even further. Do you remember? Later on I actually really optimized it again, and talked about this optimization during my session at Pause On Error [x] London 2011. Now you can watch the video of this part of my session below: Read more and

HOnza in Performance Tuning

January 27, 2012

Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Zoom Lock

Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Zoom Lock Welcome to the third post in my blog series about Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout. This entry will cover Locking the Zoom Level on Filemaker Go Layouts. The previous posts in the series covered: Understanding scroll lock Basic Go Layout Sizing read more Source

Skeleton Key

January 26, 2012

Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Understanding Scroll Lock

Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Understanding Scroll Lock This is the first blog post in a series about Creating a Fundamental Layout for use in FileMaker Go. The goal of this series is to offer practical advice and specific instructions for creating FileMaker Go layouts that look and act the way you, and your users, expect. The first topic we'll cover in the series is 'Understanding Scroll Lock'. read more Source

Skeleton Key

January 26, 2012

Tips & Hints - Layout Mode

This is the first in a series of articles that will present some useful and time saving tidbits for various areas of FileMaker. In this first article we focus on layout mode. There is no rhyme or reason, no common theme - just an assortment of our favorite time-savers, shortcuts, tips, hints, tricks, tools of the trade and more… Read the Full Article Here…

Daniel Wood

January 26, 2012

GetAsDate Momentary Head-Scratcher

Recently I was doing some FileMaker training with my older son; we were looking at the “DayOfWeek” function in the data viewer, and I showed him that… DayOfWeek ( Date ( 1 ; 22 ; 2012 ) ) …returns a 1, since this particular date falls on Sunday, and FileMaker considers Sunday to be the [...] Source

Kevin Frank

January 22, 2012

Are FileMaker plug-ins dead?

The release of FileMaker Go has added a new variable to the equation we use when considering whether to use a FileMaker plug-in. We are experiencing a big shift to mobile solutions. Within less than a year ignoring the iOS platform became an unforgivable mistake for every FileMaker developer. When creating a new solution, adding... Source

Paul de Halle

January 20, 2012

Customer Videos: iCal & Google Calendar Sync

Matthew Hardy of Real Estate Success Tools has put together a great video showing off how he’s using Zulu to link iCal and Google Calendar to his application. Great overview and a link to the video here. And if you haven’t seen his solution, REST, before, take some time to check out the site: it’s really well done. And as Matthew says, between Zulu and FileMaker his users can now interact with REST from any platform. Source

John Sindelar

January 17, 2012

Locating Matching Records, part 2

Have you ever right-clicked into a field (or Ctrl-clicked if on a Mac) and chosen Find Matching Records? It works remarkably well, but oddly enough, there is no scripted equivalent for this command. Of course if we do a Find Matching Records and then invoke Modify Last Find… …we can see what FileMaker is doing [...] Source

Kevin Frank

January 15, 2012

FileMaker Developer Tools: A Love-Hate Relationship

FileMaker's Developer Tools: A Love-Hate Relationship FileMaker is a great platform for development and I owe most of my professional success to its success. There are some things about FileMaker Pro that I love and, of course, as with any passionate relationship, there are a few things I would like to see improved. This article will strive to expose my passionate feelings about certain developer features in FileMaker Pro that I both love, and hate, with equal verve. read more Sourc

Skeleton Key

January 13, 2012

FileMaker Technical Network

The FileMaker Technical Network is now free for FileMaker developers, designers and users to share their knowledge and skills amongst one another. Joining the FileMaker community not only increases your technical knowledge and development skills, but also gives you access to a vast array of resources - Download hundreds of scripts, calculations and custom functions Read how-to articles Receive product news and... Source

Paul de Halle

January 11, 2012

Skeleton Key - FileMaker Training: Wherever You Are

FileMaker Training: Wherever You Are photo by OfficeNow Skeleton Key will kick off its 2012 FileMaker online training schedule this week with FileMaker Server 101. Take a look at the line up of trainings available for you to attend from your desk, home office, or anywhere you've got a good internet connection.

Skeleton Key

January 9, 2012

Locating Matching Records, part 1

Sometimes a seemingly-simple FileMaker challenge turns out to be more nuanced and educational than first impressions might indicate. This happened recently when I was asked to help make a scripted search behave properly. Most of the time, the existing routine worked correctly, but on certain records it would fail. The challenge: Click a button to [...] Source

Kevin Frank

January 9, 2012

Local Blogs

For members who have been blogging on the site - many of you have or maintain an external blog. Initially when we set up the forum we allowed external blog link all that did was redirect a visitor to your actually blog, and counted how many times that link was clicked. I have since disabled external blog links but I have enabled RSS Import of external blogs - This way entries of your blogs can be imported as they occur. (10 per day) and you get the benefit of having view counts on each o

We are trying to move our website to a new hosting company (godaddy is SLOW and not very easy to use – and, as we just found out, VERY RESTRICTIVE). We researched a bunch online and found that a good way to move a wordpress site safely (and with little or no downtime) is to [...] Source

David Jondreau

January 6, 2012