Alexis Allen, the first developer to be interviewed by FileMaker Pro Gurus, is presenting at FileMaker Devcon 2015 (Did I mention I’ll be there as an attendee?) on the psychology of interaction design. If you are attending, mark this one as a “must attend”: Everyone is unique, but most humans share similar basic psychology and cognitive […]
Molly Thorsen asked if we could help jump start some business for JumpStartFM, a great month long, online course designed to take your FileMaker, project management, and other related skills to a much higher level. FileMaker Pro Gurus is happy to help out. JumpStartFM is tailored to your skill level, and you will be working with […]
From Tony White Designs, an Entity Relationship Diagram (in pdf form) containing FileMaker Code Objects. Why would you want this? Provides a concise overview of “FileMaker code object” that developers are well advised to be aware of.< Shows some of the relationships between FileMaker code objects, and can result in insights that lead to better […]
“Paint the back of the fence, because you’ll know.” -Steve Jobs’ father–intended to help instill pride in craft. Today’s focus is on design and implementation, and it’s importance in any endeavor. Here are a few notable articles on various aspects of design: Extraordinary Design Lessons From 4 Companies That Changed the World | Inc.com (Hat Tip: James […]
Soliant offers high level integration with SalesForce, a heavyweight in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) arena. They’ve just combined javascript and FileMaker to connect directly to the SalesForce API: The team here at Soliant was hoping that the improved “insert from URL” script step would prove to be able to communicate with Salesforce – Alas, the lack […]
Matt Petrowsky shows some great shortcuts in a custom database (subscription required to download) he built to speed up database development. The first part of the video shows how to use the database to avoid trips in and out of the Data Viewer. The second part is problem solving. Here’s a video about composing your FileMaker […]
The first tip segment in this podcast has to do with making pdf’s in a container field accessible over a WAN (a Wide Area Network). In FileMaker 13 and above, you need to open ports 80 and 443 (SSL). FileMaker 12 and below uses port 16000. So if your pdf’s are disappearing when you upload them over a […]
Some interesting things I’ve stumbled across: Microsoft Shows HoloLens’ Augmented Reality is no Gimmick. There are some exciting possibilities with this technology. Evernote has upgraded their offerings. Check it out. This is scary: Thieves using thermal imaging technology attached to a smart phone to steal your PIN codes. I won’t pretend to understand this: Functional 4D […]
Integrating with WordPress is a challenge and involves different, sometimes difficult pieces: ODBC, ESS or SQL queries, data mapping, MySQL familiarity, custom functions, data type conversion (MySQL to FileMaker), and more. The WordPress MySQL data structure is, in and of itself, an interesting puzzle. Add to that developers who shoehorn their data into the […]
OMG thinking…also known as Outside the Box thinking… also know as “Aha” thinking… Kevin Frank has a great post (its the third in the series) on anti-deduping (retain duplicates and omit unique entries from within an existing found set, as opposed to starting from all records). Why would you want to do that? This is […]
Richard Carlton shows us how to send SMS Messages from FileMaker Pro, and does it without the need for a plugin. It’s pretty straightforward, and if you’re willing to spend a little with Twilio, you can send out a lot of texts this way. Hat tip to Colibri Solutions for developing this solution last year–and don’t forget […]
Wim Decorte of Soliant answers a common question found on forums: “How can I exclude my externally stored container content from a backup run?”… If the container data is fairly static and you can exclude it from the backup then you could save roughly 100GB on each backup run and not fill up the hard […]
Douglas Alder has an interesting and informative post on the effects of FileMaker ending support forFileMaker Pro 11 this coming September: I have written before about the need to stay current with FileMaker Pro, operating systems and hardware. I recently received an email from a reader who asked: Between me and a colleague we built […]
Various fun links from around the web: 21 Fun Dog Photos Best wireless routers of 2015 Douglas Alder ran across this recently, and wondered if anyone has any experience with it: FM Marker 2 (allows photo markup on FileMaker Go). Is Google’s new wireless service the cheapest out there? It depends. Using Emoji’s in FileMaker Pro A Programmers […]
EfficientBizz: Hi Don You set same href (A Programmers Mind …) for 'Best wireless routers of 2015' (where Fritz!Box certainly will…
Don Clark: Thanks! - fixed now!