Just for the sake of mixing it up: Insane, but nicely done: Insane Red Bull video showcases 8 types of flying acrobatics CES 2016, Theme Names: FileMaker Success Tips 377 Personal Improment – get your daily dose: 5 Ways To Get Stronger, Faster And Motivated By Training Your Mind A short read but worth it if you will […]
What’s New in Flat Design Flat design is about three years old now, and there are signs that the interface is adding back in some of the visual cues that disappeared so abruptly in 2013. The biggest problem, in my opinion, was lack of cues for the users action options: Buttons no longer had depth […]
The latest in FileMaker News Integrating Google Translate with FileMaker. Zero Blue on integrating language support into FileMaker The First Fifteen Minutes. Seth Godin–The problem with evaluating the first fifteen minutes of frustration is that we easily forget about the 5,000 minutes of leverage that frustration earns us if we stick it out. fmSMS now supports […]
Interesting Links I’ve stumbled across from around the web. 88 iconic Martin Luther King Jr. quotes – “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. FileMaker Success Tips 376 – (Should you be pragmatic?, […]
FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services I recently set up a Simple Email Service (SES) account to use with 360Works Cloudmail, and it is truly a challenging learning experience that is not for the faint of heart. But it is much easier than it was a 18 months ago when I first tried it. The learning curve is […]
Design Trends 2016 Great tips on design trends in 2016, along with ideas on implementation, by Brian Jens of DesignContest: Do you think that design trends is not a topic you should know more about to help your business? If you have planned to get some graphic design in 2016 – creating a new logo […]
One Click Update Giedrius Godelaitis of YZY Soft offers a new look at an old challenge: How to simplify rolling out updates to clients: Like every FileMaker developer, I was also looking for a bunch of different techniques to make my solution do what I want to do. I found lots of different and very useful […]
Need help troubleshooting FileMaker 14 Server Web Services? Recently, SuperContainer, for reasons unknown, stopped working on my cloud server. I Immediately tried re-installing the latest version of SuperContainer, but that did not fix the problem. Instead, things went from bad to worse: FileMaker 14 Server web services stopped working entirely, affecting multiple clients on the server. I went […]
More great things from around the world of business and FileMaker: JONATHAN STARK: Pricing on Value. An interesting take on how to price development projects and how to work with your clients to make that happen. Note: For full value, you will need to sign up for a series of emails (which I did. The […]
FileMaker iOS App SDK – that’s a mouthful. What exactly does it mean? It means you, as a developer, have a powerful new way to share your FileMaker solution to an iOS device– your iPhone or iPad, for example. It means vertical market solutions that open a the touch of a button, rather than having to open FileMaker […]
Tim Cimbura: More information here... http://cimbura.com/tech/2016/01/13/filemaker-mobile-ios-development-native-app-sdk/
Free SVG Icon Pack – Check it out! FileMaker Examples has a free download of a FileMaker database with, at last count, 89 SVG icons, all fully FileMaker compatible. Which means FileMaker users are easily able to change the fill color as desired: This SVG Icon Pack is not just any collection of SVG icons. These […]
Kudos to Macah Encarnacao, FileMaker Consultant. Macah Encarnacao works at home full time as a FileMaker Consultant from Albuquerque, NM (my home town now for over 25 years). I first met her at our local FileMaker User Group a few years back, where she helped others by sharing her knowledge with others. She placed 4th in the FileMaker […]
FileMaker Heat Map Emory Brown of DB Services builds a FileMaker Heat Map using SVG Icons and conditional formatting: Creating A Heat Map FileMaker not only has the ability to import SVG icons, it also gives the ability to change their color with conditional formatting. This is key to using them for data visualization. All we need to get […]
Many to Many Relationships Many to Many Relationships are conceptually difficult for many people to grasp. Douglas Alder tackles the subject in an effort to explain it to one of his clients: One-to-Many Relationships are the standard way of building a relational database. Sometimes a developer comes up against situations where they need something more […]
Jonathan Fletcher: The link to Stark's article appears to be broken...
Don Clark: Thanks, Jonathan. It's fixed now.