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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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Saving Panel State

Over the years, I've created a number of videos which showcase saving the state of various situations. For example, saving how many and which windows a user has open, saving the window positions and also saving the state of which panels are selected on multi-panel objects. Such as tab panels and sliders. In this video, we revisit the topic because we now have a newer function within FileMaker 18 which makes it even easier to save which panels are frontmost within your user UI. While I personall

FileMaker Magazine

July 22, 2019

Using Node-RED & the FileMaker Data API

While it's been around for a few years now, there aren't too many developers in the world of FileMaker who have explored Node-RED. Created by IBM and made open source in 2016, this visual programming tool may start to make waves in the FileMaker world. A wonderfully generous developer named Lui de la Parra has made it possible to use Node-RED with FileMaker's own Data API. This means that anything in the world of Node-RED is now accessible to FileMaker. This is an amazingly powerful technology

FileMaker Magazine

July 18, 2019

Using Node-RED & the FileMaker Data API

FileMaker Magazine

July 18, 2019

Web Development

FileMaker Web Apps with Vue.js

Looking to take your FileMaker to the next level by bringing it to web or creating a customer web portal? Learn why Vue.js is our recommended Javascript framework to build highly dynamic FileMaker webapps. Be sure to check out FileMaker Web Apps with Vue.js Includes a free video and sample file. dbservices.com

dbservices in Web Development

July 17, 2019

Fixed in 18: List + GetNthRecord Bug

Recently I was working in FM 17 and ran into an unexpected bug. My use case was more complex than this, but the following bare bones demo illustrates the problem. Demo file: List+GetNthRecordBug.zip Given two tables joined via a standard primary-key-to-foreign-key equijoin relationship… This works as expected. You might think you could get rid of… Continue reading Fixed in 18: List + GetNthRecord Bug View the full article

Kevin Frank

July 14, 2019

File Input & Output

When first learning about file operations, while working with PHP, I remember having to learn about the concept of buffers and buffer streams. Fortunately, we're not quite there yet within FileMaker. But, we have arrived at the point of learning about the nitty-gritty details of understanding all the details of files and how they factor into the FileMaker universe. FileMaker 18 released support for file IO and we're certainly going to be taking advantage of it in this new world of APIs and inter

FileMaker Magazine

July 9, 2019

File Input & Output

FileMaker Magazine

July 9, 2019

JavaScript at FileMaker DevCon 2019

FileMaker DevCon 2019 training session on JavaScript will dive deep. If you're attending or considering the training, read this and get yourself ready. The post JavaScript at FileMaker DevCon 2019 appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article

Todd Geist

July 5, 2019

WidgetStudio 2.0: Create, Customize, and Deploy Even Better

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 […] The post WidgetStudio 2.0: Create, Customize, and Deploy Even Better appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article

Todd Geist

July 3, 2019

Forum Etiquette

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

John Mark Osborne

July 2, 2019

Forum Etiquette

John Mark Osborne

July 2, 2019

Take the Short Cut

Learning and using keyboard shortcuts in FileMaker is the absolute number one shortcut to being a faster and better developer. In this article we take a look at why shortcuts are useful, and then present a way for you to add even more useful shortcuts that do not come bundled with FileMaker. We go through some of the more cooler ones in depth and show you a few tricks along the way... You can read the full article here

Daniel Wood

July 1, 2019

Otto 2.0 – Offsite Backups to S3 – FileMaker 18

Today our FileMaker DevOps tool , Otto, gets a big upgrade; automated offsite backups to any S3 compatible storage service. The post Otto 2.0 – Offsite Backups to S3 – FileMaker 18 appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article

Todd Geist

June 28, 2019

FileMaker Transactions: Editing records

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 […] The post FileMaker Transactions: Editing records appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article

Todd Geist

June 28, 2019

Working with SVGs

As the number of web sites hosting icon collections has grown over the years, it makes little sense to have your own collection of icons custom created at a costly premium. Typically, you can find pretty much any icon you could ever want to use and in many cases, you can even modify the icon to fit your specific needs if you need a slight variation. With the release of Creative Commons licensing, a wide array of freely available collections and the easy ability to modify icons, you can quickly

FileMaker Magazine

June 25, 2019

Working with SVGs

FileMaker Magazine

June 25, 2019

FileMaker Terminology

Within every industry there's a certain terminology used to express how things work and how to accomplish things. FileMaker is obviously no different. So, with this video, we start discussing some of the FileMaker specific terms and terminology. Click the title or link to this article to view the video. View the full article

FileMaker Magazine

June 21, 2019

FileMaker Terminology

FileMaker Magazine

June 21, 2019

Node Red and the FileMaker Data API – Atlanta Developers Group 6/5/19

Lui de la Parra from Mute Symphony will show how to use Node Red and the FileMaker Data API to connect with IOT devices and build scalable APIs. Learn how to use Node’s event driven architecture alongside FileMaker’s robust and reliable UI capabilities to solve complex business problems. Node Red allows developer’s to take advantage of visual and flow based programming techniques. https://github.com/Luidog/node-red-contrib-filemaker Lui will also preview a new developer tool for managing Fi

Smef

June 18, 2019

Node Red and the FileMaker Data API – Atlanta Developers Group 6/5/19

Lui de la Parra from Mute Symphony will show how to use Node Red and the FileMaker Data API to connect with IOT devices and build scalable APIs. Learn how to use Node’s event driven architecture alongside FileMaker’s robust and reliable UI capabilities to solve complex business problems. Node Red allows developer’s to take advantage … Node Red and the FileMaker Data API – Atlanta Developers Group 6/5/19 Read More » The post Node Red and the FileMaker Data API – Atlanta Developers Group 6/5/1

Smef

June 18, 2019

Giving Back to the Community – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group – 5/1/19

Makah Encarnaco from Soliant will present on how FileMaker developers can give back to the community and the new join::table organization. She’ll also be presenting on custom functions for dynamically creating JSON from related child records. The post Giving Back to the Community – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group – 5/1/19 appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, Web. View the full article

Smef

June 18, 2019

Machine Learning in FileMaker – Atlanta FileMaker Developers 12/5/18

Joe Martin from 360Works will be presenting – Machine Learning in FileMaker: Using AWS Rekognition for Object Detection and Text Extraction from Images Building off of Jesse Barnum’s AWS FileMaker scripts, Joe will show how to interact with the AWS Rekognition API, allowing for object and scene detection in an image, as well as extracting text from an image. If there’s time, he’ll also go into facial recognition and celebrity detection. Download sample file: http://s3-external-1.amazona

Smef

June 18, 2019

WidgetStudio: FileMaker javascript solutions – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 3/6/19

Jeremy Brown from Geist Interactive demonstrates their product, WidgetStudio. WidgetStudio makes it easy to use, design and share powerful interface widgets, like calendars, gauges, charts, and timers. Pick from the constantly growing set of included widgets or build your own. Freely share them with your customers or friends. There is no need to learn any other programming language to use WidgetStudio. If you can design a FileMaker Layout, you can use WidgetStudio’s built in point and c

Smef

June 18, 2019