FileMaker 17 Information Don’t look now, but there is a lot of information coming out about FileMaker 17 new features. Geist Interactive’s headline seems to indicate a problem with FileMaker 17 for the author…don’t be fooled. It focuses on the fact that FileMaker 17 added major features to the FileMaker Platform, such as the Data […]
FileMaker 17 As promised – a planned release every year – FileMaker 17 is available today! Let’s take a look at the new features. First off, there are several new features aimed to help developers (and users, too): Finally: Support for multiple email attachments That’s right, send as many attachments as your email account will […]
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’s View Menu Someone named Alison posted a video on the Free FileMaker Example List recently, a list usually reserved for linking to, well, Free FileMaker Example Files. I shared it, nevertheless, because I liked the content. It seems Alison started a YouTube channel called “FileMaker For You” recently, aimed at helping FileMaker beginners. This […]
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 […]
Hourly Billing is Nuts For FileMaker developers looking to break out of the hourly billing cycle, check out Jonathan Stark’s offerings at the link. The price is reasonable and posts I’ve read in the past by him are worth your time. Source: Hourly Billing Is Nuts by Jonathan Stark The State of API Integrations […]
Filemaker on Appstream Stu Dietz posted a detailed explanation on using FileMaker in a web browser – but not using WebDirect! How is that possible? By using an Amazon Web Services (AWS) called Appstream. Appstream is a feature that runs a wide variety of programs inside a web browser on a Windows Server instance. The benefits […]
This post is completely off my normal topics of FileMaker and business, but it’s time to update everyone on the progress of my son, Jon. For those who don’t know, here is a short version of the backstory: Jon has two advanced degrees, Computer Science and Industrial Engineering, and, in 2014, was living the life […]
FileMaker Popover Menu I stumbled across this 17 minute video and thought it should be shared as a great example of how to build a simple, attractive, effective FileMaker popover menu. Bobby Hritz, of Cross It Solutions and Solutions, LLC, also shows how to build submenus by adding in slider panels and some coding. All […]
Why Use JSON with FileMaker? Using FileMaker and JSON together opens a whole new world to your users. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is, first and foremost, a simple means of exchanging data between a browser and a server. JSON is a text only tool with some interesting characteristics: It’s a lightweight data-interchange format (data exchange […]
ROI – Return on Investment Chuck Melton of MainSpring posted an informative article on using a variation of Return on Investment (ROI) to help sell your custom application (hopefully FileMaker!). What is ROI? A standard definition for ROI is pretty straight forward: The return on investment ratio calculates the percentage return (profitability) on an investment. This is usually […]
Rick Torchia: Don, This is such good news and truly miraculous!
Don Clark: Thanks, Rick.
Shawn A. Krueger: What a wonderful update! Reading this really gave me a lift today, too. Thank you for sharing, Don! So happy…
Don Clark: Thanks,Shawn.
Karl: Wow! Thank you for sharing that. Family is sooo important and it's wonderful to hear of such a turnaround and…
Don Clark: Thank you, Karl.
Martin Spanjaard: Congratulations with this moving story.
Don Clark: Thank you, Martin.
Daniel Shanahan: Wow, Don I had no idea. Wishing Jon and all of you continued success.
Don Clark: Thanks, Daniel!