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Backup Strategies with Wim Decorte Aug 25, 2020

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Wim participated in two panels during Claris Engage.
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Wim and others at Soliant have written much about this topic.

Integrations with Andrew Duncan Aug 18, 2020

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This week's episode is brought to you by LedgerLink

Check out Andrew Duncan at Databuzz.com.au. Take a look at his products and services.

Claris Engage 2020 Thoughts (and more about Add-ons) with Todd Aug 11, 2020

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Claris Engage 2020 is over, but the good times and reminiscing is not. We at Geist Interactive are still celebrating the event with a once-in-a-year 20% off Sale. Check it out.

Todd spoke in two sessions. His first was on JS and Add-ons. His second was a panel about add-ons. They're found in the Claris Academy
The Solving FM Use Cases with JavaScript on-demand sessions (9 videos) is up now in the Claris Academy. Find "Engage On-Demand" and click on the "Integration" section.

Stephen Dolenski and Steven H. Blackwell 's paper called: The NEw Add-on Feature: Caveats, Cautions, and Nuances 1.0.1 . There's a lot of great info here about what to consider.

FileMaker Origin Stories, Ep 9: Deborah & Stathis & Will Jul 24, 2020

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My guests today are
Stathis Askaridis of Sicoa
Will Loving of Dedication Technologies, Inc
Deborah Zempel of Deborah Zempel Consulting

The learning resources these folks mentioned are:

John Mark Osborne of Database Pros and Philosophy of FileMaker
Matt Petrowsky of Filemaker Magazine
Geist Interactive
The Support Group
The FileMaker Training Series

FileMaker Origin Stories Ep 8: Allison & Ignasi & Mike Jul 09, 2020

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Allison works at Skeleton Key
Ignasi is found in FMForums
Mike works at MainSpring

The learning resources mentioned include:

Productive Computing's PCU
The old FileMaker Training Series (beloved by many)
The Claris Community (long ago called "The Technet"
And for historical reference: Susan Prosser's Missing Manual book series.

Primary Keys, with Todd Jul 07, 2020

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This episode is brought to you by LedgerLink.

Here's the question Jeremy asked a long time ago.
The book Database Design for Mere Mortals is an excellent read about all things data Structure.

FIleMaker Go: Covering a lot with Claus Lavendt Jun 30, 2020

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This episode is brought to you by Otto.
Claus Lavendt is part of Datamanix. Follow them on Twitter
He has a new free tool called DM InsertText Helper
Apple's Human Interface Guidelines are found here.
GoZync and other products try to solve the syncing process, but it is still hard.
Alexis Allen talked with us previously about Workflow based design.

Here's some good resources about FileMaker Go:

FileMaker Origin Stories Ep 7: Beverly and David and Mike Duncan Jun 26, 2020

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Mike Duncan works at Soliant Consulting
David Wilkstrom runs CamelCase Data
Beverly Voth is very active in the community. Follow her. She's got lots of great knowledge.

Evolving Our Thinking, with Todd & Dave Jun 23, 2020

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Today's episode is brought to you by LedgerLink.

In a very old video, Todd talks about Selector Connector.
Jason Young of Seedcode also worked out Selector Connector.

We use our Karbon Framework, which supports the idea of separation of concerns and business / UI logic.

FileMaker 19: Shortcuts and NFC, with Cris Ippolite Jun 16, 2020

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This episode is brought to you by FMPerception. Check it out. Download the 14-day trial and see how awesome it works in FileMaker 19.

Todd is leading a webinar for Claris on JavaScript and Add-ons. You can register to join one of the two sessions here:

Cris, of iSolutions, brought us a lot of information, and he's done a lot of work on the topics of Shortcuts and NFC. Check out his youtube channel.
Check out his links:

iBeacons
NFC Read/Write app
NFC Tags
Siri Shortcuts Youtube Video
NFC Youtube Video
NFC for iPhone
LinkedInLearning: FileMaker 19 and Shortcuts
LinkedInLearning: FileMaker 19 and NFC

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