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 […]
Learn about the Math of Visual Design from Alexis Allen of DesigningFileMaker.com For those who did not or could not attend Devcon 2016, watch this video presentation that goes over the math of visual design. Allen covers the math (and more) in her presentation: The Golden Ratio Symmetry Hick’s law (the time required to make […]
There are changes to what is popular – and working – in Form Design And these changes apply to what you need to know about form design in FileMaker. And I think this is a good thing, as form design (and readability) suffered from the Flat Design fiasco that swept the design world a couple […]
A FileMaker Sliding Drawer that Opens on MouseOver Daniel Wood of Digital Fusion wrote about FileMaker sliding drawers way back in July of 2014, and I somehow missed it. Dang it. Anyway, sliding drawers have, for good reason, grown in popularity and capability since Wood’s blog post. Check out the Hamburger Menu post and this Unique CRM […]
FileMaker Licensing Explained. This is the best explanation of the current state of FileMaker Licensing I have read/heard so far. Kudos to Mislav Kov of Soliant Consulting for taking the time to untangle the maze: Over the past few years, FileMaker, Inc. has introduced new products and functionality to expand the FileMaker platform, tweaked its licensing programs, […]
FileMaker Let Function and Text Manipulation I recently encountered the following challenge: There were just shy of two thousand web based photo files linked in a FileMaker database, and these files were of multiple types (jpegs, jpg’s, png, and tiffs) of all different sizes – high resolution, medium resolution, different heights and widths. Most of […]
FileMaker Developer Interview – Nick Lightbody Do you need to routinely update your (or a clients) website? Would you like it to be fast and easy to do? And how would you like the website you built to be blazingly fast? Then you need to watch this interview of Nick Lightbody of DeskspaceCMS, about his FileMaker […]
Make FileMaker Go Talk to IOS Apps Chris Ippolite, President of iSolutions, Inc., presented on One-Step Integration between FileMaker Go and iOS apps using fmp: scheme. The 5 minute video directly below is a summary of the areas Ippolite covers in the session. If you are not sure you are interested in this topic, watch […]
Modal Popovers Kevin Frank on Modal Popovers (love this idea) and using the Magic Value list technique (remember that?) to sort a list of dates that were returned as text. Note the downloadable example file below. Today we’re going to explore a couple ideas that were glossed over in last month’s article on the CustomList […]
FileMaker Pro Developer – Tim Cimbura Learn how Cimbura.com succeeds in a competitive market from Tim and Brenda Cimbura’s (CEO and COO, respectfully, and Nick Ciske, CTO. From technical products to concise business savvy techniques, the crew from Cimbura will show you how to succeed in a tough market. Be sure to listen to Dr. […]
FileMaker Developer vs Consultant James J. Wesolowski, Managing Principal and Founder of Colibri Solutions LLC, presented on the topic of FileMaker Developer vs Consultant at DevCon 2016. For those wanting to move their career or business forward, take the time to listen to this presentation and study the associated materials. Key points in this video: The difference […]
FileMaker and Accounting Integration News Two updates from the FileMaker and Accounting Integration world from Databuzz and Productive Computing. Hot off the press (so to speak)…Databuzz’s video on FileMaker and Xero Integration I have no experience using Xero, but hear it is a good alternative to Quickbooks. This video shows how easy it is to […]
Synching FileMaker Mobile Apps Synching FileMaker mobile apps with the hosted file is not one of the more glamorous topics to cover, but is a necessary one to address as a developer. Katherine Russell, Senior Consultant at NightWing Enterprises, presented on this topic at FileMaker DevCon 2016: The environment of each file involved in a syncing […]
Are You Getting Enough Sleep? Do you get at about 8 hours of sleep a night, night after night? I don’t. I normally get less than six hours of sleep, sometimes substantially less. And I work a long hours while building a bigger and better business. Not to mention blogging most days (OK, not recently, […]
Gerard van der Wolf: The sliding drawer is nice. But since it depends on an old version of the plugin I cannot use it…
Don Clark: Check out the Hamburger Menu post. It does not use a plugin to make it work.