This started out as a fun R & D project on how to use Automator with FileMaker. It turned out pretty cool. So I decided to wrap it up into a nice demo file. You can use the code in this file to select movies, music and photos from iLife and stick them into...
Newbury Park, California - Geist Interactive today is pleased to introduce GoSign 2.0 for iOS, a major update of their FileMaker Go extension that provides Advanced Signature Capture control, far surpassing the capabilities offered by the standard FileMaker Go. GoSign...
FileMaker Go solutions that are installed locally on the iPhone or iPad provide a better over-all user experience because they are faster than hosted solutions and can work even when you don't have a good connection. Once you decide to go down this path, you are faced...
Well this has been brutal. But I finally managed to get my site redesigned, and migrated to a platform that won't suck my time away. I have traded in Drupal for Wordpress. After about 4 years of trying to grok Drupal, I gave up. Compared to WordPress, it is a...
I had a great time at the Southern Ontario FileMaker Association meeting. The weather was really nice. I didn't even need to break out my winter coat. I want to thank Dave Pong for setting it up, and for getting the word out. Thanks to every one who came. We covered...
I am speaking at the Southern Ontario FileMaker Association tonight. I will be speaking on the Mobile Opportunity For FileMaker Developers. This should be fun. I haven't been to this group in a long, long time. Here is a link to the meeting info. Agenda The Mobile...
First, I want to take a moment to say "thank you" to every one who came to my session at DevCon. I had a lot of fun doing it, and the feedback I have received through email and through my website has been really positive. This makes me really happy! I just received...
After I got home I recorded my entire session from this year's DevCon. Here it is along with all the files that I used in the session. Hope you enjoy.The video player below should allow you to play the video in HD and in full screen. Click "HD" for HD and the little...
I have been working on building some Rich UIs for FileMaker using the Rector Plugin from Digital Fusion. I really like this plugin. It lets me do just about anything I want with FileMaker Web Viewers. In this little example video, I show off a custom login screen...
UPDATE: this post is quite old. I still thing custom functions are not as portable as they should be. However in any complex solution I use the custom functions. The ones I use are from modularfilemaker.org Whats the best way to pass multiple parameters to a script?...
While John Sindelar and I were doing our West Coast FmPug tour we sat down with Matt Navarre to do a podcast. Actually we didn't sit, we stood, but you get the idea. We talked about the upcoming release of GoZync, and a bunch of other things, like the MacBook Air,...
I was complaining to Richard Gaskin of FouthWorld about how LiveCode's Application Browser showed plugin stacks. I almost never want to see those there. They just get in the way. Richard convinced me that I could create a Patcher Stack that would solve the problem....