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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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EXCELISYS PROMOTES DOUG WEST TO VP OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND PARTNER

South Bend, IN – March 20, 2014 – Christo, Founder/President of Excelisys, Inc. (www.excelisys.com), a leading full service custom software development firm, announced the promotion of Doug West to VP of Product Development and Partner of the custom business application design, development, and consulting organization. “Doug has shown tremendous team adhesion, his clients love him, he stays on top of the l

eXcelisys

March 20, 2014

Boost your Libraries

For those waiting to see what happens to the Node.js controlled Lego car, right now it is stuck in the pit lane waiting parts. I can say though that I have had fun linking up the motors and testing with my iPhone just a little teaser there. So what is this blog post all about.... Source

Paul de Halle

March 20, 2014

Game Developer Wanted (to be)

That’s the restroom key at DevLocal where FileMaker-Seattle meets. Are we all just frustrated game developers? I know that’s what got me excited about computers and I wonder how much of that original impulse still motivates what we do. Is that why we’re so into the animations and effects afforded by FileMaker 13? Is that why folks found FileMaker IWP so frustrating for so many years: because it could make nice *looking* apps but couldn’t make things that had nice behaviors? How does Web Direct

John Sindelar

March 18, 2014

A Portal Grey Area

A grey fill on the active portal row. For years it has been something that simply 'was'. Well no longer. In FileMaker 13 we can finally easily eliminate this rather annoying design feature, and take back full control of portal fill colours... Check out the full article here: http://www.teamdf.com/weetbicks/a-portal-grey-area/223/

Daniel Wood

March 18, 2014

FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick: A Custom Order Without The Wait

Here is a nice little FileMaker Pro 13 Tip – Do you keep your custom functions in FileMaker Pro 13 sorted by a “Custom Order”? If so, then I’m sure you’ve noticed that new or duplicated functions appear at the bottom of the list. Moving the new item near the top of a long list of custom functions can take more than just a few seconds. Repeat this a few times a day and it gets pretty annoying, right?&l

eXcelisys

March 5, 2014

Updated our article on FM13 Popover Workarounds

Just updated our Dec 5 article on popover workarounds to include notes on conditionally opening popovers and telling when a popover is open. Here’s the article. Enjoy! There’s more; click above to check out the whole article. The post Updated our article on FM13 Popover Workarounds appeared first on SeedCode. Source

John Sindelar

February 24, 2014

The downfall of Flash

I’m not talking about the superhero here; I’m talking about the video and animation creator and player that millions of people came to love and use on a daily basis. In its hay-day, flash was pretty much a system requirement for accessing the web. Many of the largest websites around would use Flash to relay... Source

Paul de Halle

February 24, 2014

Filemaker Slide Control

Source: [solutions] Filemaker Slide Control

Manjit Behera

February 17, 2014

Are we there yet?

I decided to take a break from my story having started at Linear Blue around 6 months ago, as everything is settling down and becoming easier for me. Instead I’d like to talk about where we might be going in the future in terms of the technology we use day to day. As with all... Source

Paul de Halle

February 17, 2014

Calendar Mods – Screenshot

Got this great screen shot in from Brent Foster at fastcuts.tv where they use our calendar layout to schedule video production… Brent’s addition of Out, Room, Users, and Resource columns to the calendar Most developers don’t take enough advantage of how easy it is to add columns to the day view of our Pro Calendar: easy and looks great. Thanks Brent. • Learn more about our Pro Calendar add-on: built solely with FileMaker Pro scripts and layouts. The post Calendar Mods – Screenshot appear

John Sindelar

February 14, 2014

Big Tabs!

Building FileMaker solutions for iOS introduces a new set of challenges for developers and requires UI controls that make it easy for users to interact. This article gives a very quick and simple technique you can use to make selecting tab controls much easier for FileMaker Go users on iPad and iPhone. Read the full article here: http://www.teamdf.com/weetbicks/big-tabs/220/

Daniel Wood

February 13, 2014

FMI Security Webinar

FMI Security Webinar On February 11th FileMaker, Inc. presented two webinars on FileMaker Platform Security. I am highly gratified that FileMaker, Inc. did this. These webinars, conducted by Consulting Systems Engineer Rosemary Tietge, clearly laid out the case for following Best Practices for securing files and their data across all elements of the FileMaker Platform. I want to expand on a number of recommendations about enhancing FileMaker file security from those webinars. By way

Steven H. Blackwell

February 12, 2014

Syncing Found Sets

Developers love that GoZync can be set to pull just a found set of records down to an iPhone or iPad. Folks use this to deliver just one user’s records–usually very specific things like “my customer visits for today” or “my active orders in this territory”. The QuickContact example file from GoZync: modded to sync flagged records. Less well known but almost cooler is that you can give your users the ability to “push” just a found set of records back to the office. This is great for when yo

John Sindelar

February 11, 2014

Raspberry Pi GPIO and Node.js

My last post talked about JavaScpipt and how exciting it is to be programming in this language. With this post I thought I would continue and explain a little bit more why it is exciting. A few months ago at Linear Blue the web team began looking into Node.js and inperticular it’s ability to achieve... Source

Paul de Halle

February 10, 2014

Best-Of: FileMaker 13 Animations — Go To Layout

Overview Example file (link below) The animations introduced in FM13 are great, but they still don’t let us animate the transition from one layout to another. This is something we’re looking for as it’s often used in iOS apps to move from list to detail and back again. However, using full-layout slide panels, we can animate layout transitions as long as we’re careful to get the timings right. Our unlocked example file demonstrates how to do this in your own solutions and introduces using

John Sindelar

February 4, 2014

FileMaker – Instant Web Publishing [IWP] … R.I.P.

I’m sure we can think of some examples of where the deployment of Instant Web Publishing [iWP] for a solution has been successful and served to meet purpose for the end user. There are many examples, however, where IWP has been considered but the limitations proved too much of a stretch to be incorporated into... Source

Paul de Halle

February 3, 2014

Under the Hood with Sync: GoZync Webinar Recording

Syncing FileMaker Go If you’re looking to learn more about syncing FileMaker Go, this Jan 7 webinar features demos of some of GoZync’s features along with a good deal of Q&A from the audience. Enjoy! Learn more about Syncing FileMaker Go with GoZync: GoZync download, demo & screenshots. The post Under the Hood with Sync: GoZync Webinar Recording appeared first on SeedCode. Source

John Sindelar

January 27, 2014

Reporting gotchas in FM 12 & 13

FileMaker 13 has been with us for a few weeks now and with it comes a new set of gotchas. I thought I would share a couple of things to watch out for when producing printed (pdf) reports (one of which was introduced in 12). In FileMaker 12 in the Layout Setup dialog we were... Source

Paul de Halle

January 27, 2014

30 years of Apple Macintosh

Here’s to 30 years of the Macintosh platform. Having started my journey into programming and computers back in the days of DOS and command prompts, I quickly fell in love with the beauty of the design, simplicity and power that the Macintosh gave to the user. 30 years on and I still love working on... Source

Paul de Halle

January 24, 2014

iOS Calendars (that work with FileMaker)

I collect all the new calendars for iOS, even the terribly strange ones (for example, try to use–or to even pronounce–”Schelandars“). Add an event in iCalendar One of my favorites is currently iCalendar which has a nice clean display and a simple interface for linking contacts and places to an event. Of course any of these iOS calendars can show events from FileMaker if you’re using SeedCode Subscribe: once you add a Subscribe URL as a source on your iPhone it’s available to any calendar

John Sindelar

January 23, 2014

Old Notifications: sorry about that

Our blog re-sent some notifications for a few old posts this morning: sorry for the unwanted email. Not quite sure what happened as we received them also. I apologize for the interruption. - John The post Old Notifications: sorry about that appeared first on SeedCode. Source

John Sindelar

January 22, 2014

FileMaker Publishes GoZync Case Study

FileMaker, Inc. has just published a case study featuring GoZync; it highlights the mobile solution SeedCode built for Blueprint Capital. Blueprint is one of the largest residential construction lenders in Seattle and their whole lending practice is run from a FileMaker solution named Blueprint Connect™. Blueprint Mobile: offline inspections synced to FileMaker Server Read FileMaker’s GoZync Case Study . Details follow for developers considering adding GoZync to their own solutions…

John Sindelar

January 22, 2014

Tip: Add a Wayback Machine to your FileMaker Audit Logs

Leverage your FileMaker Audit Logs Here is a common reporting request: the customer has a project with a status field that changes over time. They’d like a report that shows what the status of the project was on a given date in the past. This can be pretty hard to do if you hadn’t anticipated this request to begin with. Fortunately, running a FileMaker audit log isn’t that tough and makes answering questions like this much simpler. In our case we had been running a version of Ray Cologon’s Ult

John Sindelar

January 21, 2014