At our last FMPUG-MN meeting we had the privilege of having Stephen Gallagher (Senior Director, Americas Field Sales Systems Engineering) and Mark Ringo (Business Account Manager, Midwest) from FileMaker Inc. speak with us about the state of FileMaker while they were in town. We talked about the FileMaker Business Alliance (FBA) that now has over 1,000 […]
2013-01 Meeting Focus on FileMaker Go
Last night’s meeting at Davanni’s went great! Tim Cimbura shared a presentation on FileMaker Go development and Jim Medema assisted in helping discuss relevant techniques. We had a lot of participation from a great group of developers. Thanks to everyone for coming! Here are links to some of the resources and ideas Tim mentioned… Soliant FileMaker […]
2012-11 Meeting Favorite Tools and Techniques
Our last meeting was a great collaboration of ideas as we continued our discussion of tools and ideas that make our FileMaker development and daily lives as developers easier. Tun Cimbura demonstrated the following: TeamViewer – Remote control desktop app OmniGraffle – A great drawing tool for ERDs, system diagrams, etc. Omni DiskSweeper – Great tool […]
Getting from concept to deployment: “…Better than Waterfall”
Most of you have already batted around waterfall, agile an several other “name your flavor” methodologies already, so my aim is not to introduce you to something new. Nor is it to contrive a definitive word on waterfall vs agile which has already spawned thousands of articles and dozens of books. Instead, I hope the […]
2012-06 FMPUG-MN Meeting Summary and Layout Design Demo File
Thanks t0 the 20 or so folks who attended the June 14 FMPUG-MN meeting on Layout Design. The questions, comments, discussion and feedback were outstanding! Well done, everyone! As promised, please find attached the demo file I used to guide our time together. I have tweaked the file to make it more accessible for those […]
2012-06 Our First Meeting Recap
The Nerdery posted some video excerpts from our last meeting on their blog. We had a great first meeting! See our recent email newsletter below. (Note to self: When meeting at the Nerdatorium for a couple of hours bring a stadium seat cushion. Maybe that needs to be our door prize.) Hey, FMPUG-MN! Thank you for […]
Making Sense of all the FileMaker News
With the release of FileMaker 12, there is now an onslaught of news, ideas, tips, training, etc. To help make sense of it all and point you in the right direction for helpful quality articles, Tim Cimbura created a curated news source called FileMaker News. Follow this news topic to get up-to-date FileMaker information. It’s […]