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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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FIleMaker DevCon 2018: Community || Sessions || FileMaker

FileMaker DevCon is my favorite time of the year. More than Christmas or even a vacation, I enjoy the deep dive into FileMaker for an entire week. The pool in the lavish hotel is a distant thought; I'd rather focus my time and energy on the technology and the community that makes up FileMaker. The post FIleMaker DevCon 2018: Community || Sessions || FileMaker appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article

Todd Geist

August 15, 2018

Fasting

In the blogs and forums I favor, there’s a buzz over the past few years about “intermittent fasting”. The idea is that not eating all the time is healthy. As far as physical and emotional health benefits, the pop science seems intriguing and it meets my common sense filters, so why not try it? There’s a few different versions. 16/8 is popular. That’s where you only eat in the same 8 hour window each day. Say, from 10 AM to 6 PM. That’s sounds helpful, something I would call “time-restricted ea

David Jondreau

August 14, 2018

Fasting

David Jondreau

August 14, 2018

Modified timestamps and importing

At DevCon 2018, Molly Connolly led a session on data cleaning. During that session, there was a question of how to import data without updating the Modification timestamp. The goal is to display when a user last modified a record, not the developer. Two methods* of doing that were mentioned but there is another, more robust, answer. It’s simple and flexible: create an additional field that references the Modification Timestamp field and set a variable flag when you don’t want to update it. Le

David Jondreau

August 12, 2018

Modified timestamps and importing

David Jondreau

August 12, 2018

Thinking About JSON, part 3

This a quick followup to last month’s part 2, because today I want to to dig a little deeper into JSONSetElement and take a closer look at the first argument: As I wrote last time… Part of what makes JSONSetElement so powerful is that it can be used both to create new entries, and to […] View the full article

Kevin Frank

August 9, 2018

Context and Relationships

Context is everything! Haven’t you ever had something you said taken out of context and then tried, desperately, to figure out how to get yourself out of the hole you just, inadvertently, dug for yourself? The same goes with relationships. In life, as in FileMaker, they can be tricky and, if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can get yourself in a whole mess of trouble. This article is really for newbies to FileMaker; anybody who has been working with FileMaker for a while will, or should, kn

John Mark Osborne

August 7, 2018

Context and Relationships

John Mark Osborne

August 7, 2018

FileMaker CRM

FM Quickstart 17

The latest and greatest version of FM Quickstart is now live! FM Quickstart is a free FileMaker CRM that’s fully customizable and works out-of-the-box with 8 main modules. Check out the article for a free download! https://dbservices.com/blog/fm-quickstart-17 dbservices.com

dbservices in FileMaker CRM

August 6, 2018

Jesse Barnum, 360Works – AWS Services with Filemaker. Atlanta Developers Group 8/1/18

This presentation is NOT about how to run FileMaker Server or FileMaker Cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Instead, we will embark on a one hour tour of the incredibly powerful software as a service (SaaS) offerings from AWS. AWS is the largest cloud computing vendor in the world, with services such as real-time message queues, machine learning, and massive on-demand general computing services. You’ll learn how to interact directly with any of these services by sending AWS requests using the

Smef

August 5, 2018

List Processing with Custom List

While FileMaker's calculation engine is super powerful for managing all kinds of unique calculations, the one thing it lacks is a feature for running a repetitive function across a range of data. This is certainly possible within the Scripting engine with the use of the ever wonderful Loop script step. However, as stated, there's no way to really process a range of data using just a function. Unless... you create your own or use one which has already been created. As it happens, there is just

FileMaker Magazine

August 5, 2018

Thinking About JSON, Part 2

This is a follow up to Thinking About JSON, Part 1. Last time we were primarily concerned with learning about JSON paths and structures, and reading JSON. This time around we’re going to look at creating and manipulating JSON. Demo file: winery-json.zip (If the above screen shot looks familiar you have a good memory, because […] View the full article