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Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 06:50

John Sindelar, Matt Petrowsky and Matt Navarre discuss the features of FileMaker Pro Eleven, especially those that apply to developers.

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033 FileMaker Pro 11

John Sindelar, Matt Petrowsky and Matt Navarre discuss the features of FileMaker Pro Eleven, especially those that apply to developers.

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Pause on Error

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)

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Value-Based billing: Kirk Bowman and Jonathan Stark

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

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Matt and Matt discuss Global Variables

FileMaker News

It's not FileMaker

FileMaker Cool

  • Theme Library 4
  • Using simple relationships + scripted search instead of multi-predicate relationships to display related records in a portal

Main Topic

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eConnectix Interview

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.

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Part 2: Six Secrets of a Successful FileMaker Consulting business

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.

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Part 1: Six Secrets of a Successful FileMaker Consulting business

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.

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Kirk Bowman Interview

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.

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DevCon Intros v2

Several more people introduce their sessions for DevCon 2009, including:
Jesse Barnum, Kirk Bowman, Molly Connolly, John Sindelar, and Sam Sehnert

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Nick Orr: BaseElements 4.6

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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DevCon Intros

SPONSORED BY EXCELISYS:
Excelisys FileMaker Pro Consulting and Development

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Jonathan Stark interviews Matt Navarre about fmSearchResults

SPONSORED BY EXCELISYS:
Excelisys FileMaker Pro Consulting and Development

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Web Services Manager from 360 Works

FILEMAKER REMOTE ADMINISTRATION:

360Work's AdminAnywhere makes it easy to administer your FileMaker Server from anywhere!

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FileMaker World and More

SPONSORED BY EXCELISYS:

Excelisys FileMaker Pro Consulting and Development

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Geoff Ryle & Andy Persons from Excelisys

SPONSORED BY EXCELISYS:

Excelisys FileMaker Pro Consulting and Development

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Auto-update to distribute plug-ins with FileMaker Server

FILEMAKER REMOTE ADMINISTRATION:

360Work's AdminAnywhere makes it easy to administer your FileMaker Server from anywhere!

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Conferences: DevCon and other industry shows

FILEMAKER REMOTE ADMINISTRATION:

360Work's AdminAnywhere makes it easy to administer your FileMaker Server from anywhere!

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Jonathan Stark: Value based billing

FILEMAKER PLUG-IN DEVELOPMENT:

360Works your FileMaker plug-in development partner!

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Naming Conventions

FILEMAKER PLUG-IN DEVELOPMENT:

360Works your FileMaker plug-in development partner!

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Bob Cusick of Servoy.com

FILEMAKER HOSTING:

ODITech provides affordable hosting plans!

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Vince Menanno - WebServices 2.0 Plug-In

Our sponsor: FM Pro Host:
FMProHost provides affordable hosting plans!

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Hello FileMaker 10!

FILEMAKER HOSTING:

FMProHost provides affordable hosting plans!

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The FileMaker Community

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Molly Connolly: FileMakerRecruiter.com

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Matt & Matt are talking about plug-Ins

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John Sindelar: Templates from Seedcode

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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Scripting Techniques: Passing Multiple Parameters

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Jonn Howell - Data::Experience & FileMaker Boot Camp

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.

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Guest: Cris Ippolite - Extending Web Viewer

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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Managing Database Complexity

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Fuzzy Searching, Soundex & Levenshtein

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Open Source vs. Commercial software

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!

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Our First Episode

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.

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