Maintaining the health and security of your Linux servers is more crucial than ever. With any server, you should be using real-time monitoring solutions, and performing backups every day (or more often, depending on data use). And, while you can rely on the OS to automatically install updates–especially on Windows and Mac–with Linux you benefit from a more “managed” approach to regular maintenance.
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Quick FileMaker Server Stats.log Summaries
When making changes to a FileMaker file or a FileMaker Server’s configuration, it is often useful to know if the changes have helped, or made things worse, or perhaps had no effect at all. FileMaker’s Stats.log generates some data needed to summarize this, with some help from monitoring and analysis tools, or in this case, a Python script.
Continue reading “Quick FileMaker Server Stats.log Summaries”Beezwax Sponsors Vienna Calling 2025 – FileMaker Developer Conference
Vincenzo Menanno Presents “Till Technical Debt do us Part!”
This week, June 5-7, we’re in Austria, at Vienna Calling 2025. The Claris® FileMaker® Developer conference feature open discussions, interactive workshops and collaborative break-out sessions. Beezwax is proud to be a conference sponsor.
Continue reading “Beezwax Sponsors Vienna Calling 2025 – FileMaker Developer Conference”Beezwax Presents at Elevate FM 2025 – Toronto FileMaker Developer Conference
Vincenzo Menanno Presents “Modernizing Code – Maintaining Your Investment”
This week, May 26th, we’re at Elevate FM 2025, a brand new conference taking place in downtown Toronto, Canada. The Claris® FileMaker® Developer conference features sessions by industry experts, training workshops and interactive discussions.
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With FileMaker 2024 (v21), Claris unveiled powerful features and improvements aimed at enhancing data management efficiency and security. This blog post series covers the advancements in FileMaker’s Data API (FM DAPI), focusing on REST and cURL, which offer developers greater control and flexibility in their applications.
We’re providing a tutorial file (bzTrainer-FMDAPI) to help you learn and experiment with various REST and cURL functions using FileMaker’s Data API. Enjoy exploring!
Continue reading “Explore using REST and cURL with FileMaker Data API”bBox 1.05 for FileMaker Now Available
Posted in All, bBox, Claris Development, FileMaker, FileMaker 19, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FM Products, Integration, Python, Tools & Add-ons
We are pleased to announce the release of bBox version 1.05, which adds support for schema change notifications, a new Ubuntu ARM binary, and DuckDB integration.
bBox is a free utility plug-in to extend FileMaker solutions to easily use code libraries. Supporting both macOS & Ubuntu Linux, it has functions to help you work with Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, AppleScript, Bash/Zsh/sh, XPath, and SQLite. Also included is a demo file that has over 220 examples of how you can put bBox functions to work for you.
If you’re interested in Python integration with FileMaker, also check out bzPython-FM, which uses bBox.
Continue reading “bBox 1.05 for FileMaker Now Available”Beezwax Sponsors EngageU FileMaker Developer Conference
Vincenzo Menanno Presents “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”
This week, November 17-19, we’re in Malmö, at EngageU. It’s the largest Claris® / FileMaker® Developer conference in Europe this year, and Beezwax is proud to be a sponsor.
Continue reading “Beezwax Sponsors EngageU FileMaker Developer Conference”Rome FileMaker® Week 2024: iOS Widgets & Local File Technique
A Claris Community event with presentations from Vincenzo Menanno and Fabio Bosisio, plus Beezwax as a Sponsor
This week it’s Italy for one of our favorite annual events in the developer community… formazione, condivisione e di nuovo divertimento [training, sharing and fun yet again] …covering the past, present and future of Claris® FileMaker platform development…
For Rome FileMaker Week (October 10-11, 2024), Vince Menanno and Fabio Bosisio from Beezwax have created presentations on:
- iOS widgets using Javascript and FileMaker Data API
- The ‘Local File’ technique… A force to be reckoned with!
- plus a sponsored session: Analyze your solution with Inspector Pro 8
Beezwax is also proud to be a sponsor once again this year, for Rome FileMaker Week 2024.
Continue reading “Rome FileMaker® Week 2024: iOS Widgets & Local File Technique”Python with FileMaker®: Get Started with Analytics, Automation and AI + ML
Christos Savva from Beezwax presents at Bay Area FileMaker Developer Meetup.
Join us for an informative and interactive meetup that explores the benefits of integrating Python with FileMaker. Learn how Python can enhance your Claris FileMaker solutions by enabling data and visual analytics, IT automation, and AI + Machine Learning integration.
We’ll cover “Getting Started” with Python (using FileMaker 2024 on macOS for the demo) and briefly review various integration methods, such as web viewers, plugins and serverless options. We’ll demo an example FileMaker solution, bzPython-FM.
Continue reading “Python with FileMaker®: Get Started with Analytics, Automation and AI + ML”Reconnect.Brisbane – AI with FileMaker 2024 and The Collaborative Journey
Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, News, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons
Katherine Russell and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present at Reconnect in Brisbane, Australia.
Beezwax is proud to sponsor and present at Reconnect.Brisbane, one of the biggest Claris FileMaker Developer conferences in the Asia-Pacific region this year. We’re excited to gather with our peers in the Claris community, and for the chance to engage in presentations and discussions on the latest development trends, especially AI with FileMaker.
At Reconnect 2024, Katherine Russell and Vince Menanno from Beezwax will kick off developer presentations with two sessions:
- AI with FileMaker 2024: Get More Out of Your Data and Apps
- The Collaborative Journey: Evolving Through Code, Teams, and Technology
bBox 1.04 for FileMaker Now Available
We are pleased to announce the release bBox version 1.04, including improvements to text parsing, XPath and SQLite support, and utility functions for FileMaker Admin API, Data API and OData API.
bBox is a free utility plug-in to extend FileMaker solutions to easily use code libraries. Supporting both macOS & Ubuntu Linux, it has functions to help you work with Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, AppleScript, Bash/Zsh/sh, XPath, and SQLite. Also included is a demo file that has over 220 examples of how you can put bBox functions to work for you.
Continue reading “bBox 1.04 for FileMaker Now Available”FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 3: Advanced Fun
Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, Integration, News, Techniques
Semantic search is a bit like LiDAR: it penetrates the data’s lexical canopy to reveal underlying meaning. In “Part 1: Fundamental Power” and “Part 2: Key Details” we covered the basics of FileMaker semantic search. Now let’s consider some more exotic ways this new feature can put a spotlight on our data.
We’ll show an example of “unified search” across multiple tables, using natural language to construct a semantic search. Then we’ll extend this to a second example, showing “unified search + actions”. A downloadable demo/tutorial file is provided for each of these two examples.
Continue reading “FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 3: Advanced Fun”FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 2: Key Details
In “FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 1: Fundamental Power” we discussed how to configure your Claris FileMaker 2024 app to support semantic search. Here in Part 2 of this three-part blog series we’ll dig deeper into the details of this awesome new functionality, including embeddings and cosine similarity, with a demo tutorial file for exploring AI Call Logging.
Continue reading “FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 2: Key Details”dotFMP 2024 – Chatbot, AI with FileMaker, Technical Debt
Fabio Bosisio and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present at dotfmp Berlin, 2024.
If it’s June, we must be in Berlin for dotFMP …gathering with the developer community, and celebrating the launch of Claris FileMaker 2024, especially AI with FileMaker functionality.
As conference presenters, Fabio Bosisio and Vince Menanno from Beezwax will lead two sessions:
- Chatbot in FileMaker 2024 {From Amazon Lex to the new GenAI}
- ‘Til Technical Debt Do Us Part
FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 1: Fundamental Power
Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, Integration, News, Techniques
FileMaker 2024 delivers native semantic search, and it’s awesome. Now you can search records whose text is similar to the semantic meaning of your search term, even if those records don’t include your exact search term. Using natural language, users can be freed from trying to recall exactly how data was input. Let’s dive in to see just how powerful FileMaker’s semantic search is.
Continue reading “FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 1: Fundamental Power”Use REST and cURL with FileMaker 2023’s Data API
FileMaker 2023 (v20) added minor functionality to the FileMaker Data API. Here, we’ll cover an overview of the new date format parameters, Save Record as PDF script step, and several bug fixes. We also want to mention another option, FileMaker’s OData features, for some of the integrations we might otherwise handle via REST, cURL, and the FileMaker Data API.
We’re providing a tutorial file for learning more and trying out various REST and cURL functionality with FileMaker’s Data API. Enjoy!
Continue reading “Use REST and cURL with FileMaker 2023’s Data API”Rendez-Vous 2024 – Claris FileMaker Conférence, Nantes, France
À la conférence Rendez-Vous::FM 2024, 31 mai et 1er juin 2024 à Nantes, France, Vincenzo Menanno de Beezwax (sponsor or de la conférence), présente “Utilisations créatives et gains de performance grâce au fichier local, avec Claris FileMaker“, et “Enquêter, accélérer et collaborer avec InspectorPro 8“.
Continue reading “Rendez-Vous 2024 – Claris FileMaker Conférence, Nantes, France”InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate
Beezwax’s Vincenzo Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker development colleagues, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”. Vince shares the latest research, development best practices and product offerings to Claris / FileMaker conferences attendees as well as several developer meetups.
Continue reading “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”The Art of Code: FileMaker’s Integration into ‘Problemista’s’ Plot
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, News
Throughout the new A24 indie film from Julio Torres, there is an ongoing dialog and deep drama about … Claris FileMaker Pro. Yes, FileMaker Pro is featured in a movie. Good news?! Well, based on initial press coverage and a clip on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, we thought perhaps not. In those brief seconds of national television coverage, our beloved software was called a “harder-to-use, not free” version of Google Sheets.
So, is this big screen debut a major problemista for all of us who love FileMaker?!
Continue reading “The Art of Code: FileMaker’s Integration into ‘Problemista’s’ Plot”Claris Beyond Meetup – FileMaker Diagnostics, Analysis, and Data Visualization with InspectorPro
Beezwax’s Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker developers at meetups and conferences, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”.
At the March 2024 Claris Beyond Meetup, Vince covers diagnostics, analysis and data visualization with InspectorPro for FileMaker. He shares the latest research, development best practices, and product offerings. Vince also has a number of surprises up his sleeves that he can’t wait to show. If you’re a FileMaker Developer attending, we hope to see you there!
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