With spring in the air we decided to go back to our roots and focus on a very fundamental topic – Entity Relationship Diagrams, or ERD’s. This simple, yet very important, document gives developers a snapshot view of a database. It illustrates at a glance all the tables, fields and […]
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At this meeting, our own Thomas Mokwa from ProFile Developers will present “Audit Logging or Back in Time!”. Over the course of the evening, Thomas will present the various options available to the developer to include an audit log in any given solution. In addition to showing which options are out […]
FileMaker has the convenience of being able to perform updates to live systems when put onto a server or in the cloud. Also, when the FileMaker system is set up this way it is more accessible in many places. However, there are FileMaker systems that are used quite often or […]
Let’s spend a little time discussing the Developers view and how it differs from the customer’s view on a “completed” project. Thinking of any major video game or software that is on the market makes it very clear that a developer’s job on a project/piece of software is never “done”. […]
As part of this “FileMaker Show-n-Tell”, our own Erica Tamburo and Eric Lewis will each present a mini-keynote. Erica and Eric will walk us through the topics of their choice, highlighting development work done on their various solutions. Each presentation gives us the opportunity to see how our peers have solved real-world problems using […]
Collaborating with people is a part of many projects, allowing the opportunity to share ideas and delegate tasks. This varies on different levels, depending on whether we are talking to managers, developers, or customers. There may be certain people we work with better than others, but when things work out, […]
As developers, the longer we develop the more attached we become to certain methods of organizing information. In saying that, I mean my eye twitches when I work on a project that lacks a clean organized backend to the solution. As a team at Cross IT we do a great […]
This past weekend I had the pleasure of running into one of my old classmates from college. After the typical pleasantries of catching up and reminiscing the conversation naturally shifted towards our respective jobs and what we do. With my friend being an in house database developer using Oracle and […]
The agenda for the evening includes a roundtable discussion centered around the topic “What’s Your Problem?”. For the last couple of years, each FMburgh meeting has concluded with a segment we like to call “One More Thing…”, which is an opportunity for any one present to ask a question not […]
With the newest file format of FileMaker 12, we also received the function ExecuteSQL to many developer’s delight. From then on, it has helped expand many FileMaker files in its capabilities, one being reporting. If SQL wasn’t something a developer already knew, they could try SQL Explorer made by SeedCode […]
As FileMaker developers, we sometimes take things in development for granted that customers and even internal employees may not be aware of. In some of the newer projects that I have been working on, there have been requested features that I have not exactly needed to quote out or build […]
On September 27 2016 FileMaker, Inc. released the newest product to the FileMaker Platform, FileMaker Cloud. Now that the dust has settled, we wanted to evaluate what this means for FileMaker and what it could mean for your FileMaker solutions. The first thing to do is look at how FileMaker Cloud […]