FileMaker Feud is coming to DevCon
by Michael Gaslowitz
Attention FileMaker friends and DevCon attendees: MightyData, a filemaker consultant, trainer, and certified developer, will host a contest at this year’s conference called FileMaker Feud. Two teams, each consisting of one FileMaker coach from MightyData and four DevCon attendees, will test their FileMaker knowledge at 2 p.m., August 3. The team that picks the most [...]
June 16, 2011 • DevCon, FileMaker, News • Comments Off
DocuBin 1.0 is here!
by Michael Gaslowitz
After 2.5 years of hard work I am proud to say that DocuBin shipped today! If you have been looking for a document or digital asset management system, I have your database right here.
April 21, 2011 • DocuBin, FileMaker, News • Comments Off
DocuBin
by Michael Gaslowitz
If you are looking for a quick and elegant way to store documents and images of all types and sizes, then I have the database for you. We are calling it DocuBin, and I am very proud and excited to be sharing it with you. Check out the sneak peek video, or better yet, come [...]
August 14, 2010 • DocuBin, FileMaker • Comments Off
Pushing FileMaker Alerts to the iPhone
by Michael Gaslowitz
If you use FileMaker to send Growl notifications, you may really benefit from Todd Geist’s post on Teaching FileMaker to Send Alerts to an iPhone. Combining Prowl, the Growl iPhone client, and the 360Works ScriptMaster Plugin, Todd wrote a ScriptMaster Module to push any text you like to an iPhone.
February 7, 2010 • FileMaker, Plugin • Comments Off
FileMaker DevCon Recap 2009: Thoughts for 2010
by Michael Gaslowitz
First and foremost, if you attended the 2009 FileMaker Developer Conference and want FileMaker to know what you thought, liked, or hated about it, make sure you submit your speaker and overall conference reviews. Nothing will change if they do not know about it. As for me, I only have two suggestions to those planning [...]
September 26, 2009 • DevCon, FileMaker • Comments Off
FileMaker DevCon 2009 Recap: The Sessions
by Michael Gaslowitz
I want to use this post to share with you a few of the sessions I attended at the 2009 FileMaker Developer Conference in San Francisco, CA. The theme this year was developing with FileMaker 10, with an unofficial focus on script triggers and a development technique called Virtual Lists, which the folks in the [...]
September 19, 2009 • DevCon, FileMaker • Comments Off
FileMaker DevCon 2009 Recap: What Was Different?
by Michael Gaslowitz
Another year, another FileMaker Developer conference. For this year’s recap I decided to add a little more analysis on the conference itself, so these next three posts about the 2009 FileMaker Developer Conference will ask the following three questions: How was this year’s conference different from previous conferences? What did I get out of the [...]
September 7, 2009 • DevCon, FileMaker • Comments Off
Video: Conditional Borders
by Michael Gaslowitz
This post demonstrates a conditional formatting trick to change the border color of a FileMaker object. Spoiler alert: there is no border. iPod Download (1.2 MB) Download ConditionalBorders.zip
May 30, 2009 • Conditional Formatting, FileMaker, Podcast • 1 Comment
AFB Wordle
by Michael Gaslowitz
Image courtesy of Wordle.
February 6, 2009 • FileMaker • Comments Off
AppleScript your FileMaker Pro Advanced Menus
by Michael Gaslowitz
The Data Viewer and the Script Debugger are staples in every FileMaker developer’s toolkit, yet there is no built-in keyboard shortcut or script step for either one of them. With four lines of AppleScript, these menus are now within reach: tell application “FileMaker Pro Advanced” activate do menu menu item “Data Viewer” of menu “Tools” [...]
January 31, 2009 • AppleScript, FileMaker, Toolkit • 2 Comments
