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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
Forums are a great way to get technical advice for FileMaker but for some reason, many people don't think they have to be nice in the electronic world. I was raised to say "please" and "thank you" and that has translated over to the internet for me. But, other folks think the anonymity of cyberspace is an excuse to be a jerk. Some posters are outright offensive and others will just leave snide responses like, "that wasn't much help". News flash! People on the internet are real and you should be
Hierarchical JSON Viewer / Editor
By Andy Persons & Doug West
One of the standout new features of FileMaker Pro 16 is native support for the JSON data-interchange format. In addition to providing easy integration with a host of online services, it also provides developers with the tools to create robust hierarchical structures for use entirely within FileMaker. This hierarchical JSON viewer / editor file provides some tools for visualizing, manipulating, and leveraging JSON text.
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Part 2: What Should You Consider When Selecting a Development Partner? What Questions Might You Ask a Potential Developer?
Hiring a developer is about creating a working relationship. You want someone who gets your business and gets you. Having a good working relationship often determines the success or failure of a development project. Hire someone you are comfortable with who also has the skills necessary to make your project successful. Beyond the quality of the working relationsh
GoDraw3 is a FileMaker drawing tool for users. For FileMaker developers, however, it is full of customization. A developer can do with it what she wants.
The post GoDraw3: Hack the Heck Out of It appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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<p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/blog/snow_day_technology_keeps_us_moving_and_working_update"><br /><h1>Snow Day: Technology That Keeps Us Moving and Working</h1>
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I wanted to share a milestone in the history of RCC. Not that I turned 40… I did that already. RCC is now training its 40th college intern.
For those that are unaware of this… at any given time RCC is busy training a corp of college interns in the art of FileMaker. RCC interns spend many months learning database design work, programming, and even the more important aspect of project and customer management. They will take these skills plus many life lessons with them forever. Some of the i
Very psyched to see the schedule for Pause on Error coming together! Just recorded a podcast with Matt Navarre of FileMaker Talk about all we’re looking forward to.
Check it out: http://filemakertalk.com/
And stay in touch by following pauseonerror on twitter.
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A while back my youngest son, who is an avid Go player, asked me, “Is it true there are more possible Go games than there are atoms in the universe?” “Absolutely,” I replied, “Let’s fire up FileMaker Pro and prove it.” (I wasn’t about to let a rare teachable moment slip by.) “If memory serves, [...]
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Working on a GoZync integration with Jason this morning and remembered this troubleshooting trick Todd and I came up with. This lets you quickly find where a given operation happens in GoZync scripts. (Worth a quick watch.)
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We’ve added a new article to the GoZync docs describing how to turn off the automatic deletion of mobile records that no longer match the users’ pull criteria.
For users pulling very large found sets, this can radically speed up pulls down to their mobile device.
The article describes scenarios where this would help, and walks users though the (very simple) mods required. Again, thanks to Todd’s clean code, this can be as simple as changing a single line. (We should make a collection of our fa
Recently I received a dual-technique FileMaker 12 demo from Eden Morris. Here’s what he had to say about technique #1: In the Relationships Graph I show the use of colored labels to indicate where record creation, cascade deletes, and sorted relationships. Looking at the graph it easily shows that I can create customers from a [...]
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Editor’s note: Today I’m pleased to present a guest article by Michael Rocharde, author of FileMaker & Me, an interactive multimedia book focusing on FileMaker Interface Design. FileMaker has always been an incredible tool for generating reports and for many years, I used to have a report screen with banks of buttons to generate all [...]
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Unskilled and Unaware
Nearly fourteen years ago two Cornell University psychologists authored a definitive study titled Unskilled and Unaware of It. Their core thesis was that persons who were unskilled in any number of domains suffered a dual burden. They reach erroneous conclusions and make incorrect and unfortunate choices on the one hand. And second, their lack of knowledge and competence robs them of the ability to recognize their errors. They are incorrect; yet, they believe that they
Dear Reader, There’s an old saying that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but having experienced it first hand, I’m not feeling even remotely flattered. Pissed off? Yes. Violated? Yes. But not flattered, and not amused. Here’s the short version: Me: The Impostor: Here’s a longer version (and I hope you’ll read to the [...]
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How I got a list with data from MySQL in less than 1 second with a SQL VIEW - from an awful 20-25 seconds when going through relationships between multiple tables from the MySQL database.
My Filemaker solution is integrated with a MySQL database that has been highly normalized for different reasons.
This means that a simple list with 4 different fields can easily contain info from 4 different tables, where a couple of the relationships might span 3 tables. This made the performance in FM
<p><a href="/blog/lemonade-stand-part-1-forecasting-and-trend-lines"><br /><h1>LEMONADE STAND, PART 1: FORECASTING AND TREND LINES</h1>
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<p>Sometimes as software developers we get caught up in the details of collecting, storing, and displaying data. To our clients, this is rarely the ultimate goal. Our clients want to use data to make better decisions that will increase profits, utilize resources more efficiently, and
<p>In our last few <a href="http://www.gozync.com" target="_blank">GoZync</a> deployments we’ve noticed folks frequently need to pull some related data down to the mobile file, but don’t want (or need) to sync the whole related table. Let’s say you want to get a customer’s credit limit on your iPhone but don’t want to sync the (massive) invoices table that is needed to calculate it. </p>
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<p><a href="/blog/filemaker-training-wherever-you-are-in-2013"><br /><h1>Skeleton Key - FileMaker Training: Wherever You Are in 2013</h1></a></p>
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<p>Skeleton Key will kick off its 2013 FileMaker online training
<h3>The first of a series of small templates built around GoZync.</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.seedcode.com/timezync" target="_blank">TimeZync</a> has finally shipped.</p>
<p>Most firms have a very hard time capturing billable time and TimeZync can help. It may be the fastest way to log time into a FileMaker solution. And it works offline, so folks can enter time wherever, whenever.</p>
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Editor’s note: Today we have a guest article written by John Weinshel, whose knowledge of SQL in general, and FileMaker+SQL in particular, runs deep. John’s contributions in various online forums are always worth reading, and it’s a privilege to present his thoughts on this topic here. The new ExecuteSQL() function in Filemaker 12 does not [...]
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<p><a href="/blog/follow-up-filemaker-academy-webinar-filemaker-server-beyond-the-admin-console"><br /><h1>Follow Up to FM Academy Webinar - FileMaker Server - Beyond the Admin Console</h1>
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<p>On November 15th, <a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/Alan_Kirtlink">Alan Kirtlink</a> at <a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com">Skeleton Key</a>, hosted FM Academy's webinar where he showed participants h
One of the cool things that conditional formatting has allowed us to do ever since its introduction in FileMaker 9 is to build inline field labels that become hidden when the field contains text. With the introduction of field state formatting in FileMaker 12, we can take these inline labels even further and make them even more awesome.
http://www.teamdf.com/weetbicks/even-cooler-inline-labels/200/]click to read the full article…
With the release of FileMaker 12 FileMaker has made FileMaker Go free. The reduction in cost makes Go the best product for rapid application development for iOS devices. While using Go within an all FileMaker network with good wireless is trivial its more difficult to use Go as a front end to a SQL Server...
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<p><a href="/blog/filemaker-academy-webinar-building-a-power-business-solution-on-a-budget"><br /><h1>FM Academy Webinar - Kyo Logic: Building a Power Business Solution on a Budget</h1>
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