I happened across this post this morning: Is Being Introverted Affecting Your Confidence? We all know that the Big Five personality traits—openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism—are important personality-determinants. Their varying combination in each of us dictates why we evolve to become who we are. And up until recently, scientists believed that we can’t […]
SVG’s for FileMaker Eric Sterbenk of The Support Group posts on a great source for SVG icons and a way to easily modify the icons to make them FileMaker compatible: Who else but Google has created a style guide for all of their applications and shared it on the interwebs for everyone to use. Material Design is basically […]
JSON Help Kevin Frank, of FileMakerHacks.com fame, posted part 1 of a new series about JSON, Thinking About JSON. His post explains the basics of JSON from basics to pretty advanced, and includes a free FileMaker Example file, json-sandbox.fmp12, as well. I’ve been working on a couple large JSON projects over the last few months, and with the […]
Needs vs Wants A problem most people routinely experience, for themselves or with dealings with others, is telling the difference between a need and a want. Jordon Watson studied the differences as it applied to developers dealing with clients, and shared his findings at DevCon 2017. The following four points are part of his observations, […]
FileMaker UX and UI with Semantic UI Humming Tech is pushing the boundaries of the FileMaker User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) recently, and their latest effort is no exception. This time it is a video tutorial (with a Free FileMaker Example File) on integrating features from the free Semantic UI development framework: Semantic is a […]
FileMaker Portal Filtering and Sorting FileMakerHacks recently posted on FileMaker portal filtering and sorting using SQL queries, something a lot FileMaker developer avoid due to the complexity of using SQL queries inside the FileMaker framework: In this article we are going to explain how to implement portal filtering in FileMaker portal using SQL techniques, because it is easy, […]
FileMaker Pro Developer Interview – Mike Beargie Join Don Clark of FileMakerProGurus.com as he learns more about Mike Beargie, now with Mainspring.com. Mike Beargie Mike is well known in the FileMaker community for his contributions on forums, helping out when people are having problems. Mike also blogs at his FMCommunityLive.org website. Mike also developed and […]
FileMaker REST using BaseElements Plugin Matt Petrowsky, of ISO FileMaker Magazine, puts out high-quality instructional videos and example files on a weekly basis. And to support this, he charges a very modest fee for access. If you are serious about developing FileMaker, it’s a smart move to subscribe. The time savings you’ll reap by watching […]
WebViewer Integrations Library Jeremy Brown, of Soliant Computing, spent the last two or so years exploring ways to integrate WebViewer solutions into FileMaker databases. As you may know, there is a world of great code waiting to be put to use with FileMaker. The problem is putting FileMaker data into that code in a structured […]
FileMaker Developers Interview – Lesterius Team Meet and learn more about Lesterius, a Platinum FileMaker company, from Roland Jacobs, David Julot, Tristan Meul (all with Lesterius) and Jasper Schoonackers (with myFMBUTLER, which is owned by Lesterius) in this wide ranging interview from DevCon 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. We all had a great time and learned a […]
FileMaker to Slack, Dropbox, Trello, MailChimp, ZenDesk and back. Automatically. At FileMaker DevCon 2016, I caught glimpses of the future for FileMaker and FileMaker developers. And Salvatore Colangelo’s Devcon2016 presentation drove it home by showing how FileMaker’s role in this future it to act a central information hub for a variety of web services: FileMaker to […]
Executing Design It’s time for FileMaker’s take on UX design, brought to you by Chih Hsiao, Senior UX Designer at FileMaker: How do you incorporate design into your day-to‐day development activities? Design is not an afterthought but an ongoing practice of planning, testing, and validating your ideas. In this session, we look at examples that […]
FileMaker Elapsed Timer A lawyer client recently requested a start and stop FileMaker elapsed timer for the CRM/Case manager solution I am building for him. I poked around on the web for while and didn’t find anything I liked, and decided to build one. He likes it so much I decided to share it with the […]
FileMaker and business smarts for all, from beginner to guru. Michael Rocharde, of michaelrocharde.com, and Don Clark sit down for a wide ranging conversation on the business of FileMaker, from business smarts to overcoming introvert tendencies, and more. Here’s just some of what you’ll learn in this informative interview: Rocharde’s current ventures, including three current businesses […]
Alex Barattieri: Thank you for P. J. O'Rourke's quote of the day.
Don Clark: You bet, Alex. O'Rourke has a way with words...