FileMaker Inc. just announced the 2014 Developers Conference. I am proud to be presenting again this year. My topic for this year is Modular Design. We will explore the newest tricks and tips for building reusable, sharable, maintainable chunks of FileMaker code. We...
[vimeo id="89455585"] This is part 3 of a video series on FileMaker Transactions. It might be helpful to watch part 1 and part 2 first. But it's not required. In this video we took a look at why transactions are important to syncing FileMaker and FileMaker Go. We use...
[vimeo id="88808708"] This video is part 2 of a series on FileMaker Transactions. Part 1, titled "Fixing Slow FileMaker Reports" demonstrated one of the many reasons why transactions are an important part of building multi-user FileMaker apps. In this video, we break...
[vimeo id="88708993"] This video is part 1 in a series on FileMaker Transactions and why you should use them. In this video, we look at a slow FileMaker Report. The report is slow because it is based on unstored calculations. We look at a way to speed up the report,...
Building Multi-User FileMaker Applications FileMaker is a great platform for building multi-user applications. It's easy to get started, but powerful enough to build applications that can run an entire business. One of the reasons it is so easy and powerful is that it...
FileMaker Transactions Although it isn't talked about much, FileMaker does have solid support for database transactions. You can write scripts with full commit and rollback support, just like MySQL and most other Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). This is...
Announcing Barcode Creator Geist Interactive is excited to release Barcode Creator v1.0 for FileMaker. Barcode Creator can generate 14 different types of barcodes — all without using plugins, fonts, or web services. It's pure, 100%, native FileMaker. It works on the...
BaseElements FileMaker Plugin BaseElements is very powerful free plugin from Goya . Among it's dozens of useful features is the ability to create FileMaker code in the form of ClipBoard objects and place them on the clipboard so you can...
WordPress is the dominant web platform on the planet. It's ecosystem is orders of magnitude larger than FileMaker's. Clearly they are doing something right. Is there anything that FileMaker and FileMaker Developers can learn from Wordpress's success? At first blush,...
FileMaker Signature Capture Newbury Park, California, Feb 5th, 2014 – Geist Interactive is pleased to introduce GoSign 3.0 for FileMaker Go and FileMaker Pro. GoSign 3.0 is a major rewrite of the popular FileMaker Signature Capture add-on for FileMaker Go. GoSign...
Tim Anderson reported an awesome bug with HyperList version 2.0. I wanted to jump right in there and start fixing but the main HyperList script is a bit complicated. So you need to be careful. One of the ways I try to make sure that I don't break existing codes, is...
DreamPress is a supercharged, optimized for WordPress VPS from Dreamhost. We run geistinteractive.com and modularfilemaker.org on it. It uses Varnish and Memcached to keep Wordpress just zipping along. Overall I'd say we are pretty happy with it. But when you are...
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The most long-term success tends to come from reducing, to the greatest extent possible, the need for agreement and consensus. - Isaac Z. Schlueter Issac is the creator of npm, the nodejs package management system. This quote is the opening line of a great post on...