FileMaker Developer Interviews – Todd Geist Sit down and get ready to learn about one of the FileMaker Community’s more resourceful members, Todd Geist of Geist Interactive. Geist is the definition of busy, with a new product release–FM Perceptions–and two presentations at DevCon2016. Todd is very personable, contributes plenty to the FileMaker community, and started, […]
Integrating JavaScript and FileMaker If you are like me, the thought of learning the particulars of another language and integrating it with FileMaker probably makes you think “I don’t have the time”. Make Time And start by watching Todd Geist’s DevCon presentation: “Javascript is Eating the World”. Geist walks you through the history of Javascript, including: There is […]
Jason Young extends the capability of his great, free SQL solution, SQLExplorer, by adding select and deselect portal rows and the ability to reference the portal row Primary ID from a hidden column. This allows interaction both ways with a javascript enabled portal. Just as a refresher, Young builds on his main concept of usingJavascript to […]
For the more adventurous developers out there, Aaron Giard brings the fourth in his series on using jQuery inside a FileMaker webviewer to build and display charts. But don’t be intimidated! Using jQuery for charts can be broken down into a discrete set of actions: Download the Chart.js library from Github (there is a zip download […]
AARON GIARD of Scarpetta Group posted part 2 of his series on extending FileMaker’s capabilities with jQuery: For those of you who who have not read it, click to read part 1 of this series to get a preface on some of the techniques I am using to make this happen. I want to create a slider […]
FOR SOME PRETTY GOOD REASONS, many FileMaker developers are hesitant to use any third party tools to extend it’s capabilities. Incompatibilities in new versions, troubleshooting code in other programming languages, or just not wanting to learn so much new stuff all the time are just a few of the reasons. However, it’s time to embrace […]
Jonathan Fletcher: Isn't it Java that's owned by Oracle?