Looping through and filtering lists of values turns out to be a common task in FileMaker. Having a few different techniques at your disposal is quite useful. In this post, we are going to look at a set of related techniques for processing lists. First we look at how...
I need your help. As some of you may know, Geist Interactive has been very involved in the founding and support of One Spark Academy, a non-profit learning center for middle aged school kids here in Thousand Oaks CA. When my wife, Lori Peters, and I founded One Spark...
Daniel Wood suggested a rather interesting idea on how to make HyperList and MasterDetail even faster. In short he suggested using FileMaker's built in record ID instead of the primary key. Its really rather brilliant and turns out to work quite well. You can read...
Update 08/07/16. SeedCode Subscribe is no longer available for sale Things have been so busy wit the run up to DevCon I didn't get a chance to talk about the new product that just launched with SeedCode. It's called SeedCode Subscribe. It's a simple way to get your...
FileMaker's GetField() function has always been struck me as a curious beast. Every since it's release back in Filemaker 5.5 or there abouts I had assumed that it returned the contents of the field specified by the parameter. But there were a couple of cases where...
Master Detail is mFM module that provides a master detail view for any table in your solution. It uses the virtual list technique to reproduce the found set in a portal. This lets you create any kind of layout that combines a list and the...
It has long been difficult to share code in the FileMaker world. Traditional FileMaker coding styles made it difficult, and I think many of us old school FileMaker Devs still have pieces of "6 think" burned into our brains. As a result we never really developed the...
Unit Testing is the practice of testing individual chunks of code to make sure they are working as designed. Ideally it is done with a single click of a button, so that you can do it all the time. Traditional FileMaker coding doesn't lend itself to this practice...
DevCon 2013 is coming back to California. YAY! It will be August 12th - 15th in San Diego, California. For more information, visit the conference web page. DevCon is always a blast. Lots of great tricks, tips, and techniques from the best FileMaker heads from all...
Tim Dietrich interviewed me for FileMaker Addict. You can read it here.
Update! this is full of some pretty rich language and general goofiness. If thats not for you then you probably shouldn't watch it For more information about GoZync, visit GoZync's website: http://www.seedcode.com/gozync
This summer, I traveled back east to visit one of my customers. STAT Biomed is a medical equipment sales and service company based in Middleboro, MA. They have been using FileMaker for years, and have enjoyed great success with it. Last year they asked us to help...
DevCon 2012 is over and it was quite a show! I gave two presentations, I received a Mad Dog award and both GoZync and GoDraw were featured prominently in the Keynote and the closing session. John Sindelar from SeedCode and I were really proud that GoZync was part of...