FileMaker and AWS Services You may have a need to integrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) into your business, but just didn’t know it. Jesse Barnum’s DevCon 2018 presentation covered the ways to integrate FileMaker and AWS Services. But he was not talking about how to build FileMaker servers on AWS. Instead, Barnum focused on the […]
How does a custom FileMaker App improve your service business? One bumper repair company increases monthly billing by $90K, saved almost an hour a day, and paid for it’s custom app in less than 2 months: Are the most important people in your business out in the field with your customers? Do you waste time […]
FileMaker DevCon 2016 Un-Conference Session Claus Lavendt is hosting an un-conference session on his new FileMaker Server product, FMS Whistleblower: FMS WhistleBlower – The missing tool for FileMaker Server Wednesday 3:45 at the un-conference session room. In this session, Claus Lavendt will present a new freeware tool, created by Peter Wagemans and Claus Lavendt. It is designed […]
William Porter of MacWorld assesses the release of FileMaker 15 in his article: With version 15, the FileMaker platform gets better, and it was pretty good already. But in terms of features, FileMaker 15 is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary release. Many existing users may not feel the need to rush to upgrade, and both new […]
Matt Greger: Thanks Don! I just posted the setup for configuring the Redshift ODBC connection via FileMaker Server on Windows. One interesting…
Don Clark: You are welcome, Matt! And thanks for that info, Matt. I thought PostgreSQL was included in FM 15–my mistake. I'll…
It’s panic time: Your FileMaker file with all of that critical data is corrupted! What do you do? To whom do you turn? For starters, read Makah Encarnacao’s extensive guide to using the FileMaker Recovery Tool. Be sure to read the comments on her blog post, as well: You may suspect your file is corrupted if you […]
For the new developers out there: A day in the life of an IT Apprentice at Linear Blue FileMaker Success Tips 385 Thu, 14 April 2016 385_FM_Success_Tips Is It too complicated?, Should we do a series?, Indexing and import Repeat I see a trend developing here. Amazon Web Services is getting more and more attention, […]
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 […]
In part one of this series, Duncan Baker walked us through setting up an Amazon account and setting up the base server instance: In our previous blog post, we did all that was necessary on the AWS side to set up groups, users and security prior to being able to launch our server Instance using […]
Part one of an in-depth look at setting up an Amazon Web Server and installing FileMaker services by Duncan Baker of Sound Essentials: Learn to set up your own FileMaker Server using Amazon Web Services in this step-by-step tutorial from Sounds Essential… What’s involved in setting up FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS), one […]
Tim Ballering: Regarding the AWS backups We back up a 100 GB solution offsite nightly over a bonded T1. Impossible? We use…