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 […]
Company and Subcontractor Management Susan Fennema, Chaos Eradicating Officer (CEO) of Beyond the Chaos, and I discuss the ins and outs of company and subcontractor management in the third video in our 6 video series. There will be three more videos in the New Year. Today, we talk about communications, on boarding, and helping […]
Increase Code Quality While Staying Lean John Sindelar of SeedCode needs no introduction to FileMaker developers. Sindelar wrote the SeedCode calendar solution (now called Dayback), SeedCode Complete, FMChat, and his firm develops custom FileMaker solutions (naturally). So when Sindelar talks about increasing code quality while staying lean, it’s worth your time to pay attention: What […]
Data Modeling That Scales If you’ve never heard of Supertyping and Subtyping as it relates to FileMaker, you’re probably not alone – and you are in for a mind bending journey in this video presentation from Dave Graham (Geist Interactive), presented as Data Modeling that Scales at DevCon 2017. The main thrust of his message explains the […]
Hiring Subcontractors – Setting Expectations This week Susan Fennema and I get into the details of Hiring Subcontractors in our second video: Setting Expectations What to Expect What forms should a subcontractor sign before beginning work – and can you even hire a subcontractor? Why you ned an NDA Why you need a subcontractor agreement […]
A novel twist on the Separation model: The Function-Separation Model John Renfrew, Director at Attitude in the UK, wrote about using the new FileMaker 16 Card window function in a unique way: Add new functionality by calling a separate function file that does all the work (you send it parameters), returns the info to the […]
Managing SubContractors and Project Management Join Susan Fennema – Chaos Eradicating Officer, Beyond the Chaos , Brandon Hayes (Director of Business Relations – Kalos Consulting, Inc.) and me in the first of six videos on Managing SubContractors and Project Management. The video series started today on Facebook at 11 Eastern…and I have shared it on […]
FileMaker cURL One of the most powerful and, probably, least appreciated features of FileMaker 16 is the support of cURL. So what is cURL? Here’s what Wikipedia has to say: cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols. The cURL project produces two products, libcurl and cURL. It was first released in 1997. The […]
Do you want to use FileMaker on Android as an App? It’s tantalizingly close to real, but might still slip away. If you want or need FileMaker on Android, get over to LiveCode Native now. Kevin Miller, founder of LiveCode and LiveCode for FM, needs your help to finance this venture. LiveCode already offers a plugin for […]
Excel Exports using XML and XSLT All FileMaker developers spend time figuring out how to export FileMaker data in a usable format for their clients. Kevin Frank had a series of posts on just that subject (link in the next paragraph below). There is way to export data from FileMaker using XML and XSLT, but […]
FileMaker Document Management You may have missed this great post by Nicolas Hunter on FileMaker Document Management on LinkedIn recently. Are you on LinkedIn? If not, get busy and make an account – you are missing out on great business resource for learning and connecting with other business professionals. Back to FileMaker Document Management: Richard Carlton […]
Four and one half years ago, FileMakerProGurus was born at this desk… In this house… My office was to the right of the chimney, second floor. So What? Why do you bring this up? I don’t live there any longer…but I still own the house, and it’s now an AirBNB/VRBO (Vacation Rental By Owner) […]
Alex: Thank you Don. This will be super useful...
Don Clark: Glad to hear it, Alex. Hope things are going well for you!