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Step-by-step for FileMaker Cloud

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker 16, FileMaker Cloud, Server Administration

Although setting up your AWS account and creating a new FileMaker Cloud instance is a fairly easy process, it does have dozens of steps, and a few places where you could easily take a wrong turn. On this post we’ll go through each step in the configuration of your Amazon AWS account and requesting your first server.
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FileMaker Cloud Live – SF Bay Area

by Jay Gonzales
Posted in All, Business, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker Cloud, Mobile Development, News

Join us in person, November 7th…

…for a live, hands-on presentation of FileMaker Cloud. You’ll walk through the setup of a free trial with our guidance. Free credits for AWS will be provided, courtesy of FileMaker, Inc. Presented by Beezwax, hosted at 42 USA’s facility in Fremont.

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Maximizing Diversity to Bridge The Tech Gap

by Tonya Makowski
Posted in All, Business, Community, Organization Development

Work To Be Done: Bridging The Tech Gap

If you follow tech industry news I am sure you’ve read and heard about the need for greater diversity in the industry. While the discussion began with a focus on women and people of color, diversity in hiring also includes people with disabilities, parents in need of flexible scheduling, gender diversity and people from diverse socio-economic backgrounds.

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FileMaker Collaboration, Performance & Insight with InspectorPro

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, InspectorPro, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

 

FileMaker Meetups: Seattle, Portland, Santa Clara & LA

Beezwax’s Vincenzo Menanno is hitting the road this week to visit our FileMaker colleagues across the West Coast, talking about “FileMaker Collaboration, Performance and Insight with InspectorPro”. Vince will be presenting our latest research, development and product offerings to FileMaker Developer Meetups in Seattle, Portland, Santa Clara and Los Angeles.

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The Thrival Guide: @ Burning Man

by Julian Nadel
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Community

This is Julian’s Out of Office email reply. We thought it would be fun to share it, along with the work mentioned herein. Enjoy!

From: Julian Nadel

Subject: Out of Office; @ Burning Man

Hello. I am off-line, returning to email on September 7th.

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Version 0.84 of bBox for FileMaker Now Available

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, bBox, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker Server, Integration, Python, Tools & Add-ons

Optimized for FileMaker 15, the new version of bBox includes 160 examples

We are pleased to release another update to bBox, v0.84 of our free utility plug-in to extend FileMaker solutions to other programs, code libraries, and OS X functions including Python, Ruby, AppleScript, Perl, Bash/sh, XPath, and SQLite.

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Building Native Mobile Apps with FileMaker Data

by Mary Martinez
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker Server, Mobile Development, Swift, Techniques

Ever wonder how you might be able to create a mobile app with data you already have in your FileMaker solution? I have, too! As it turns out, it’s not too outlandish of an idea thanks to the FileMaker Custom Web Publishing with XML API.

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Freedom to Experiment – FileMaker 15’s Script Undo/Redo

by Darren Burgess
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, Techniques

Introduction

FileMaker 15 introduces a major enhancement for the Script Workspace that is a real boon for developers: editing Undo and Redo. This functionality continues the efforts at making the Script Workspace more like a “text editor”. It’s a stress-reducing development enhancement that I think will improve our ability as FileMaker Developers to write scripts.

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SSL Certificates with FileMaker

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker Server, Security, Server Administration, Techniques

Intro: SSL Basics

SSL certificates are a very common way to secure client/server network connections, and the FileMaker platform has made use of them for many years. Starting with version 15 however, FileMaker introduced a number of security changes, in handling SSL and certificates, on both the server and the clients. But where do they come into play, and how might this affect your deployments?

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Performance Optimizations Make Compelling Case for FileMaker 15 Upgrade

by Mark Scott
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker Server, Performance, Techniques

Small Gains: Big Impact

In the transit-planning universe, planners and economists often get excited about 5 minutes shaved off of a 30-minute bus ride. The individual rider might shrug at a mere 50 minutes saved per week, but the planners and economists multiply that 50 minutes by the number of people who ride that route during a typical week and see something much bigger.

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iBeacons – Improve the Ranging Experience

by Perren Smith
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, Techniques

FileMaker gave us the ability to integrate iBeacon technology with the release of FileMaker 15 last month. This is a great way to enhance existing apps with microlocation features as well as build entirely new apps to solve problems we couldn’t solve before.

Some potential app ideas that have been floating around in my head include:

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Speeding FileMaker Performance with Truncate Table

by Jud Wolfskill
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 15, FileMaker Server, Performance, Techniques, Testing

Managing Data You Use and Throw Out

We develop FileMaker applications because we want a place to store information for the long term. We track events, tasks, contacts, finances—FileMaker can track almost anything. To update information, the application might ingest a spreadsheet.

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Mask Data with Concealed Edit Boxes in FileMaker 15

by Jud Wolfskill
Posted in All, FileMaker, Security, Techniques

Solving an Old Problem

When you consider how to keep information safe, you might first imagine a team of hackers in a dank basement typing and clicking their way into your bank account. 

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Version 0.83 of bBox Now Available

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, bBox, FileMaker, Integration, News, Python, Tools & Add-ons

Optimized for FileMaker 15, the new version of bBox includes 160 examples

We are pleased to release another update to bBox, v0.83 of our free utility plug-in to extend FileMaker solutions to other programs, code libraries, or OS X functions (Python, Ruby, AppleScript, Perl, Bash/sh, XPath, SQLite).

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Fun with FileMaker Button Bars: Check Please

by Mark Scott
Posted in All, FileMaker, Techniques

Fun with Button Bars, The Series

In recent years, design, has become such an important aspect of what we do; luckily FileMaker has responded with a much improved design surface. With themes and styles, conditional visibility, SVG icon support, and new layout objects, we can now use design and color to communicate with users in ways not previously possible (see, for example, the “Priorities” example in the accompanying demo file).

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Excel formatting and charts from FileMaker using XlsxWriter

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, bBox, Data Analytics, FileMaker, Python, Techniques

If you’ve developed solutions with FileMaker for any length of time, you’ve almost certainly created files using FileMaker’s native Excel exports. Although quite useful, this feature gives almost no control over the formatting, and definitely no way to set formulas, charts, or even text formatting.

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Avoid nil-checks. Code confidently. Be happy.

by Federico Ramirez
Posted in All, Ruby on Rails, Software Design, Uncategorized, Web Development

This post is about pretty code (with examples in Ruby), plus how to get nil out of the way and be more confident.

Does this code look familiar?

user && user.ask_for_email

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Version 0.82 of bBox Now Available

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, bBox, FileMaker, Integration, News, Python, Tools & Add-ons

We are pleased to release another update to bBox, v0.82 of our free FileMaker utility plug-in.

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JavaScript-driven PDF Reports in FileMaker using AngularJS

by Darren Burgess
Posted in All, bBox, FileMaker, Integration, JavaScript, Techniques

Introduction – Extending FileMaker with JavaScript

Using a combination of AngularJS, HTML5, CSS, WKHTMLTOPDF, PDFtk, bBox and FileMaker scripting, we can create PDF reports from a FileMaker solution, taking advantage of the design and development flexibility afforded by using JavaScript and web tools to accomplish the task.

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Installing xhtml2pdf on OS X

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, bBox, FileMaker, Python, Reporting, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Xhtml2pdf is a cross-platform Python module that allows easy conversion of HTML or XML to PDF files. Its dependencies, ReportLab & Pisa, also have a host of very useful functions, including programmatically creating or modifying PDF content & creating barcodes.

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