When we weren’t looking, FileMaker started marketing more effectively On the day of the State of the Union speech, FileMake released the State of the Custom App Report. Great timing – FileMaker rode the news existing news cycle, google searches, and social media traffic to get the most exposure and bang for their buck. And spotlighted […]
AWS and WebDirect for Chinese customers: It doesn’t work. I just learned this late last night. I have a client who manufactures parts in China and ships to the US. When we tried out the China vendor part of the database using FileMaker WebDirect this past week we were in for a surprise: WebDirect does […]
Dynamically Filtering Filtered Portals A blast from the past (all the way back to 2013!), but still a great technique for smaller databases, this filtered portal is easy to use and will filter multiple fields. Read the comments for some speed enhancements and an faster alternative. The best part: You can use your existing portal […]
So, how do you go about being responsible as a developer? Being responsible as a developer requires some thought and some concrete action. Susan Fennema and I discuss what steps you can take to help: As a developer, how can you keep yourself on track? Say no when there are too many demands Underpromise, overdeliver […]
FileMaker External Authentication Wim Decorte presented on FileMaker External Authentication (EA, SSO, AD, OD, OAuth, LDAP) at Devcon 2017 last summer. Don’t let the the acronyms bother you. It’s actually pretty easy to set up Microsoft Azure, Amazon, or Google to handle external authentication for your FileMaker solution, and Decorte spends most of his session […]
Meeting Expectations In the fifth video of the Project Management – Sub Contractors series, Susan Fennema and I talk about tips for subcontractors to help with meeting expectations. Below the video is an overview…watch the whole video for all the useful details: What is the developer’s role in using project management tools? Checking off or […]
Communicating with your Project Manager Susan Fennema and I just finished our 4th Facebook live video on Project Management: Communicating with your Project Management. In this video we talk about communicating with your project manager and cover the following topics (and more, of course): What information does a project manager need from a developer? When […]
How to Automatically Create Variables from JSON Data in FileMaker Mislav Kos wrote an incredibly powerful, free custom function for parsing data from JSON files, something you’ll definitely want in your tool chest for the future (as the future will include a lot of JSON for most developers). If you have data stored as JSON, […]
It’s a brand new year and lot’s of exciting things are happening in the FileMaker world! Translating using Google Translate with FileMaker It turns out to be pretty easy, but costs for every word translated. I’d like to find a way to translate labels and tags in FileMaker on the fly – and store them […]