Do you look for new ways to develop FileMaker solutions? Are you on the bleeding leading edge? I’ll bet most of you are, if only because your clients challenge you to on a routine basis to more than you thought possible, or to find a better way to do it. Jacob Unsworth, of Linear Blue, […]
Benjamin Fehr of Efficient Buzz has figured out a way using Applescript to make FileMaker communicate with the Apple notification center. He’s looking for a hook to make it work with FileMaker Go on iOS. If you can help, make a comment. Benjamin shared this with me last week, and I’m hoping someone out there […]
Tim Dietrich released an open source signature capture solution that captures signatures via a web viewer, making it possible to grab signatures on a desktop client as well as FileMaker Go: This morning I released FMEasySignature, an open source solution for capturing signatures in FileMaker databases. It is a technique for capturing signatures and optionally storing […]
Another well made video bio of a young FileMaker developer professional, this time of Brian Voss of aAcesoft software in Brooklyn. Kudos to Brian and to Mary Pitzen for putting themselves in front of the camera and advancing both their cause and their careers! Published on Oct 13, 2014 It all started back in high […]
Listen while driving, biking, or walking. Or sitting still, if you must. Thu, 23 October 2014 320_FM_Success_Tips Typical mistakes in decoupling scripts, 2 theme tools Direct download: 320_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 5:30 PM Filemaker Success Tips : 320_FM_Success_Tips.
Back in August, I reached out for help with outputting Vcards from FileMaker and Douglas Alder was one of several (thanks to you all, btw) who reached out to help. And he was right: it’s way harder than it should be to output to both Mac and Windows, and the biggest issue is with the “Export […]
EfficientBizz: I completely agree about using virtual lists for this kind of application. I made similar experiences with creating .ICS files.…
Optimizing your database to run fast from the server is critical, and not necessarily an easy thing to do. The one hour seminars that FileMaker has been making for a while are very helpful, and FileMaker makes them available on demand afterwards. FileMaker is offering two sessions Tuesday, October 28th. Follow the link below to […]
It seems FileMaker is taking a new tact in it’s advertising and marketing efforts. So far, I’ve seen two videos like this one–one each for a man and a woman–designed to entice other young people to look into developing FileMaker as a career. It’s a smart move for those with an interest in programming and […]
FileMaker Developer Career Profile: Mary Pitzen...: […] It seems FileMaker is taking a new tact in it’s advertising and marketing efforts.So far, I’ve seen two videos…
A very simple way to install Todd Geist’s Barcode Creator into FM Starting Point–or any FileMaker solution, for that matter. Published on Oct 17, 2014 Geist Interactive’s Barcode Creator is a great companion tool for FM Starting Point 4.2. By copying in a few scripts, you can be scanning barcodes in less than a minute! […]
Alexis Allen of Designing FileMaker has a new guest blogger, John Renfrew of attitiude, and his first article is on adding a visually pleasing way to build an automatic progress tracker that provides instant feedback to a client as the project progresses through the process: I’m pleased to present a guest post from John Renfrew, […]
Tim Dietrich’s just released FMEasySync V1.3, an open source license database that synchs FileMaker Databases. This version fixes some bugs from v1.2. Here’s to Tim for sharing his timeless work. I’ll be using this on my next synch project. Looking for an easy, powerful, and reliable way to sync FileMaker databases? You’ve come to the […]
Mentoring/coaching young talent (or talent of any age, for that matter) is a fulfilling and rewarding experience for both parties. I have direct experience with both roles in the immediate past in the area of business coaching. FileMaker Mentoring, the brain child of Egbert Friedrich, is a great start, and one that will start spawning a […]
Thu, 16 October 2014 319_FM_Success_Tips No padding in table view, Latest Radioshack stuff, Get( Scriptresult ) and Dialog boxes Direct download: 319_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 5:30 PM Filemaker Success Tips : 319_FM_Success_Tips.
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 […]
Damian Kelly: If you can embed a URL you can call filemaker back with the fmp:// url method...