FileMaker Cloud Deployment This is a relatively short video (38 minutes) from FileMaker giving a fairly high view of the FileMaker Cloud Deployment process. It’s not intended to be a detailed setup guide, but it good for showing all the parts of the process to an interested client. LinkedIn Costly Mistakes I found this […]
FileMaker Cloud Trial Subscription Did you know there is a FileMaker Cloud trial subscription, and that it comes with a 15 day trial for the first instance? Not only that, but it is available with your choice of 5, 10, 25, or 100 users connections, and there is no hourly software charge from FileMaker. Of course, […]
Fibonacci and the Golden Triangle Fans of design theory are familiar with the Fibonacci Formula and the Golden Ratio and how they help design layouts that are naturally friendly to the eye. The reason is simple: the Golden Ratio appears over and over again in nature, and the human eye subconsciously picks up on the […]
FM Cloud and SSL Certificates – The Brain Basket I posted about setting up FileMaker Cloud servers last week and managed to miss the final, and probably most difficult, part of successfully setting up a FileMaker Cloud Server: Setting up an SSL certificate after the 90-day courtesy certificate expires. Fortunately, Claus Lavendt rides to the rescue (again) […]
Building Self-Updating Apps Katherine Russell’s (Nightwing Enterprises) second presentation at FileMaker DevCon 2016 is all about building self-updating apps: the concept, the steps you should take, what to look out for, and more. Self-updating apps is something I have seen recently in a separation model solution where the data file remains the same, but the interface […]
FileMaker Cloud and AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) has come a long way since in the last three years, making great strides in usability and offerings. How does this apply to the FileMaker world? FileMaker teamed up with AWS in 2016 to provide a linux based server known as FileMaker Cloud. FileMaker Cloud is, basically, FileMaker Server […]
Lots of things happening in the World of FileMaker 360Works released a FileMaker Cloud compatible version of MirrorSync, version 3.1 Some of the key features: Faster synching records Faster synch configuration Faster insert operations Improved self-repairing of sync data if dupes exist And more, of course. Check it out for all the details. FileMaker and Stripe […]
FileMaker Cloud Marc Larochelle with his perspective on FileMaker Cloud: a followup session at DevCon 2016. Larochelle is AWS certified (just happened!) and has some great details on implementation and some background of the project, as well. Ya gotta love the free market: This iPhone 7 case brings back the missing headphone jack A little […]
FileMaker on Amazon’s Cloud is here! FileMaker previewed FileMaker Cloud (under non disclosure, of course) at DevCon 2016, and the reception was enthusiastic! The formula is simple: FileMaker Server plus Amazon Web Services plus Linux CentOS = very powerful, easily configured FileMaker servers at a (mostly) reasonable price! Some of the nontechnical features you’ll want to […]