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Creating dashboards in FileMaker – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group July 2021
Jeremy Brown from Proof+Geist will present on creating dashboards in FileMaker. The Data in a FileMaker app has a story to tell. And dashboards are one way to share the story with stakeholders. As we gather, we’ll take a look at the purpose of dashboards and types of...
Using Micro-Services with FileMaker – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group June 2021
Stephan Casas presents on using micro-services with FileMaker. We'll learn how to empower FileMaker applications with robust and in-demand technologies like web-scraping, HTML-to-PDF conversions, and other micro-services – all established alongside your existing...
Writing Readable Code – Atlanta FileMaker Developers May 2021
Robert Naud from Accolade Plus Accolade presents on coding best practices in FileMaker. Good code is like a good joke. It needs no explanation. Together we will discuss the different elements you can use to make your code more readable. We will cover both scripting...
Connecting FileMaker to Laravel PHP Apps – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group April 2021
David Nahodyl from Blue Feather will demo a new, open-source PHP package named Eloquent-Filemaker which makes it easy to access your FileMaker data from a Laravel PHP web app. He’ll demonstrate how to deploy the package into a solution and configure it to...
Sharing FileMaker Data Through A Client Portal – Atlanta FileMaker Developers March 2021
Michael Layne from Gearbox will demonstrate taking a back-end internal FileMaker solution and exposing some information to a client portal. Stack includes FM (of course), DAPI, PHP as a full client, PHP as a RESTful API for a VueJS app. It also includes some AWS S3...
FileMaker SaaS Solution – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group February 2021
Benjamin Ribaldo from Ribaldo Technologies will be presenting a SaaS using FileMaker, FileMaker Data API, PHP, and HTML that has achieved a level of functionality superior to other similar solutions developed using SAP, SalesForce.com, and MySQL. In addition, he will...
3 Ways to Control Chaos in Your Small Business – Atlanta FileMaker Developers January 2021
Susan Fennema will discuss “3 Ways to Control Chaos in Your Small Business”. This session will help you figure out how to reduce overwhelm and set you up to manage your company like you mean it. We will discuss how to: • systemize your business will set you free •...
Installing FileMaker Server on Linux – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group December 2020
FileMaker Server for Linux is officially available! David Nahodyl from Blue Feather will be demonstrating the process of setting up a new Linux server on AWS and the install process for FileMaker Server. Thomas Meglasson from Blue Feather will also demo some of the...
FileMaker and S3 – CloudContainer updated for improved thumbnails
We're happy to announce our first post-release update for CloudContainer - the best way to store FileMaker data in S3. With this update we've improved thumbnail generation for PDFs and general thumbnail caching and performance for all other thumbnail-compatible file...
JavaScript Learning Path: Learning to use JavaScript in FileMaker – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group October 2020
Jeremy Brown of Geist Interactive will get you started down the right path to explore JavaScript in the FileMaker context. Jeremy is convinced that any FileMaker developer can learn JavaScript, so if you give it some time, you'll produce great things. Jeremy will...