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Matt talks with Richard Carlton from RC Consulting (www.rcconsulting.com) about FileMaker Go 12, and the significance of the new features and the fact that it's free.
Matt and Matt discuss FileMaker 12 in detail. This was recorded just before the official release, so we got a couple things wrong. Like the game changing fact that FileMaker Go is FREE.
Eric is senior product manager for FileMaker Pro at FMI, and he talks with Matt about the great new features of 12.
Matt and Matt talk just after the FM Train event, and discuss some ways of attracting new people to the community. We also wax about a few changes we'd like to see in the FileMaker Product line.
Matt interviews Molly Connolly from Thorsen Consulting. They talk about some great ideas to get the next generation of FileMaker Developers found, trained, and prepared for success. Maybe at your company...
Matt Petrowsky and Matt Navarre are hosting FM Train - a FileMaker mentoring event on the scenic Amtrak Train from LA to Portland. The event is on February 3rd 2012. For more info see www.isoproductions.com/fmtrain. We also discuss new Pause on Error videos on Vimeo.com, and a new version of 360 Works ScriptMaster.
Recursion. Did you mean 'Recursion?'
Matt and Matt talk about SSD drives, tricks in Google (like Googling 'Recursion' or 'Let It Snow") and our main topic: Abstraction. What is it, what isn't it, where should you use it, and more. Happy New Year!
John Sindelar from Seedcode talks with Matt N about development styles, pair programming, wriring code on a train, and different approaches that yield success.
Matt Navarre and Matt Petrowsky talk FileMaker. The subject is internal SQL in FileMaker, using a plug-in such as ScriptMaster, MyFM Butler, or fmDataGuard. We also talk about Emoji characters on FM Pro and FM Go, and practical design patterns.
Matt and Andy talk about DevCon, flattening data, hiring employees, and the things we learned at DevCon and how it will impact our business.
Matt talks to Andy Cohen about all the great DevCon parties and learnings, FileMaker Excellence awards, and other mayhem. Then we welcome Agnes Riley (Mad Dog award winner) and Shin Ninagawa to the podcast for the first time, which is exciting. Agnes discusses the barcode scanners she was selling at her booth this year.
Part 3 of the 4 DevCon episodes. Matt talks to Jason Thomas from Skeleton Key and Andy Cohen from FMST about the importance of sales. Matt also talks hosting with Scott Karch of Nimbus Hosting.net
Matt Petrowsky - from the show floor talks about Theme Studio
Jesse Barnum talks about Zulu and Docubin
Jason Thomas - Skeleton Key sales
Jake & Jesse Traynham - CNS Plug-Ins
Starting off with two sections. First, Matt talks to Richard Carlton about the 7 FileMaker Go sessions, and what each one is, and some conjecture as to the future of FM Go. Then Matt talks to Kirk Bowman from Mighty Data about his company's offerings.
Matt and Dave talk about the new very cool tool that quickly gives you deep detail about the objects on your layouts. Dave will also be at DevCon, so make sure to check it out at http://workflowdata.com/fmxrayspecs.html. We also get into a cool tip about optimizing multi-predicate relationships, and some other FM goodness.
Matt and Court from Cleveland Consulting discuss the amazing new CC Pivot solution for FileMaker. This allows pivot table reports on your FileMaker data with no changes to your file! You can get results in just a few minutes. We discuss the ins and outs, and get under the hood about how it works.
Matt talks to John from Seedcode and Todd from Geist Interactive about a new tool that will transform mobile development for many of us. GoZync is this solution that allows FileMaker Go developers to enjoy the speed and flexibility of working with a local database on the iPad with the push and pull capabilities to connect with FileMaker Server.
Matt and Adam discuss consulting methods, billing, gold-plated solutions, bug tracking software, the iPad 2 (which was brand new when this was recorded in early May) and lots of FileMaker chatter.
Matt and Matt talk about a new way to sort portals that Tom Fitch came up with. It's simple and elegant, and leaves us wondering why no one thought of this before. Read more at http://fitchandfitch.com
We also gab about iPhone camera apps, Mail clients, and more.
Recorded at Pause on Error, Matt and Matt talk with Scott Karch about Citirx, redundancy, big servers, SAN, other fun big boy toys. We discuss how and why you want to offer this to your clients.
Matt N catches up with Don Levan at Pause on Error to talk about exceptional design, upcoming workshops, and more.
Matt and Matt met live at Pause, talking about it's value to the community. We compare some tech tips, talk business, and make some predictions.
Matt and Mark compare notes on performance over the wan, version control, development standards, growing your business, iPad games and more.
We talk about many subjects in the FileMaker punyverse, as well as the usual percentage of off-topic subjects. We spend some time talking about upcoming Might Data event in May, FileMaker Standards, Ayn Rand books, the amazing new Theme Studio, and 2MPower Developer Assistant
John Sindelar from Seedcode talks with Matt N. about upcoming conferences and sessions planned for Pause in February and DevCon in August since session proposals are due. Also, we get into some detail on vertical market development, performance programming, why the Sazerac cocktail is amazing, and more inside FileMaker chat.
Martha Zink is a developer and trainer at Mighty Data in Texas. Matt and Martha talk about their new MacBook air computers, some cool user interface trips and tricks, and why FileMaker training is so important.
Matt and John talk in Portland about the brand new version of Zulu that syncs your calendar data with Google Calendar. Check it out at http://www.seedcode.com/zulu
Matt and Matt talk about cool technology in and out of the FileMaker world. We discuss several tips, 'It's Not FileMaker' and then turn to a discussion of error trapping. Is it important? Why? When to and not to emphasize it, and what kind of errors to trap for.
Matt and Don talk about a class that Don Levan and Ernest Koe are teaching in New York (Oct 13-15). This is the first in the Craft of FileMaker series, focused on exceptional interface and interaction desgin.
Matt talks to Richard and Jesse about what we've learned in a couple weeks since Go came out. This includes some basic performance metrics, syncing data, early successes, and deployment models. Also, we tie in to the latest products from 360 Works, including SuperContainer which now supports FM Go.
Matt ant Kirk talk about the rebranding of Mighty Data, sessions they are involved in, FileMaker Go, and the excitement that is DevCon.
Matt and Matt interview Richard Carlton, CEO and Senior Engineer of Richard Carlton Consulting in CA. We talk about the brand new FileMaker Go for iOS. Run FileMaker apps on iPad and iPhone with great fidelity. We talk through the details, limitations, and implications of this great new product.
In 1993, FileMaker Pro came out for Windows. Since then, this is the first new platform that can run FileMaker apps with full fidelity. This brings 100 million new potential clients, which is pretty exciting.
Matt and John talk about behavior changes in FileMaker Pro 11v2, Filtered Portals in 11, the new Zulu CalDav server plug-in, fmSearchResults 2.0, John's 2 DevCon sessions, and more.
Matt and Don discuss the Pattens and Standards Lab. We talk about the community aspects, what we're trying to achieve (and avoid) and how you can get involved.
Matt and Matt discuss iPad, some cool techniques, the huge update to Theme Library, and how the ScriptMaster plug-in from 360Works makes so much more possible to the FileMaker developer.
John Sindelar, Matt Petrowsky and Matt Navarre discuss the features of FileMaker Pro Eleven, especially those that apply to developers.
Matt and Matt talk to a small crowd at the Pause on Error unconference. We give each person 2 minutes to talk about something cool they saw at Pause, and talk about our overall impressions of the event. Then 2 weeks later, we talk to one of the organizers of PoE, Andy Gaunt about his take. (Pardon Matt N who repeats himself a bit between segments)
We return to perhaps our most popular topic: Value-based billing. This is a followup discussion with Jonathan Stark and Kirk Bowman. Warning: This episode is all business, and contains no techie geeky stuff. Kirk is making the transition from Hourly to Value-based billing, so we chart his progress and discuss the challenges.
Jonathan Stark is a consultant in Providence, RI, and recently published Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
FileMaker News
It's not FileMaker
FileMaker Cool
Main Topic
John Overton is the founder of eConnectix. They introduced Xpress for FileMaker at DevCon. This solution combines a FileMaker 10 Server with a turn-key backup solution in one box. It's so fast that backups now complete in about 1 second.
Part 2 of a live recording of an un-conference at DevCon 2009. This is a panel discussion where Matt Navarre moderated a discussion about how to succeed as a consultant. The panel contained Molly Connolly, Kirk Bowman, Jesse Barnum, and Jonathan Stark. We talked about value-based vs. hourly billing, project management, quality assurance, proposal generation, and how to make sure life and work are in balance.
This is a live recording of an un-conference at DevCon 2009. This is a panel discussion where Matt Navarre moderated a discussion about how to succeed as a consultant. The panel contained Molly Connolly, Kirk Bowman, Jesse Barnum, and Jonathan Stark. We talked about value-based vs. hourly billing, project management, quality assurance, proposal generation, and how to make sure life and work are in balance.
This interview was recorded at DevCon, just before the conference began.
Matt interviews Kirk about his DevCon sessions, and the work that MightData does to work on the 'Tough Stuff' for their clients.
Several more people introduce their sessions for DevCon 2009, including:
Jesse Barnum, Kirk Bowman, Molly Connolly, John Sindelar, and Sam Sehnert
FileMaker Cool: Drag and Drop features from John Sindelar's webinar; Using globals, find requests, and a simple relationship instead of complex portals to filter data.
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Matt Navarre interviews John Sindelar from Seedcode software about their current templates featuring the SeedCode calendar and FM Spark. John talks about seedcode's current offerings, important design considerations when creating a template, some exciting ways they might be used, and the best parts of working with FileMaker developers as customers.
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Matt and Jonn talk about FileMaker Boot Camp, which is coming up at the end of the year in Thousand Oaks, CA. They discuss the history of this great FileMaker event, what is covered, and how it differs from FileMaker training and from DevCon.
Matt Navarre interviews Cris Ippolite from iSolutions during his visit to Portland. Cris discusses extended Web Viewer techniques, going beyond the obvious. This FileMaker feature continues to evolve, and is becoming a layout calculation object. It allows features such as PDF file conversion using this free Adobe tool, and a free java FTP client that allows image uploads similar to SuperContainer from 360Works.
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Ah FileMaker, how we love how quick you are. Here's the problem. Are you loosing your edge to Open Source? That's the debate!
Matt^2 (that's Matt Squared) here to introduce a brand new podcast!
You may reacall Matt Petrowsky, from FileMaker Magazine, and Matt Navarre from the Adatasol FileMaker Podcast. Well, now we've joined forces to start a new podcast to discuss all things FileMaker Pro.