Here are the files from all of my DevCon presentations. I will have lots more to say about this in a later post. But I promised I would get the files up ASAP. So here they are.

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Have fun. Thanks for coming to my sessions :>)

Here is a little preview of what I will be presenting on at the Developers conference in 2 weeks. I am working on a platform for developing interfaces in FileMaker with Web technologies. In this example I have embedded parts of the Yahoo Interface Library into a FileMaker file, and used them to display a really cool little data grid, or portal as we FileMaker folks like to call it.

Launcher Files are pretty common in the FileMaker world. They solve two common problems.

1. Desktop Shortcuts - Typical users do not want to have to go through the hassle of launching FileMaker, opening remote, finding the sever, finding the file they want to open, and then opening it. Yes this is a bit easier with FM9. But still users want one thing to click. They click the Launcher File, and it does the work of finding the right file on the right server to open.

Last weekend I spent leaning about creating Voice-Enabled applications for Flash. This weekend I am learning Flash Video.

I am taking the "The Wide World of Flash Video course at the Rich Media Institute in Venice, CA.

I just have one word to say about it all WOW!

ok I lied, I have way more than one word to say about it. But let me try to keep it brief.

After the Spawn, I got to work building a Ribbit phone for FileMaker. Here are the results. Very Cool!

Remember with Ribbit you can call to any phone and any phone can call any other phone. Similar to Skype but embedded into your FileMaker system.

I am here at the Ribbit Spring Spawn, learning about the Ribbit Flex Component.

Ribbit advertises themselves as Silicon Valley's first phone company. They have developed a Flex Component that allows you build a full featured VOIP featured Phone into any web site.

The event kicked off with Ted Patrick of Adobe, giving his Flex 101 talk. Then we dove into the code. Flex / Actionscript is a pleasure to use.

Why am I here???

FileMaker just announced the 2008 FileMaker Developers Conference.

JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa
Phoenix, Arizona

July 13 - 17

This will be the third time DevCon has been this hotel. It is a really nice hotel. Excellent facilities, great restaurants, and most importantly it has a lazy river!

I will be giving Two Sessions and a Workshop this year.

I came across this this about 6 months ago in a conversation with Kevin Frank. Then, I promptly forgot about it. I stumbled on it again today, and thought "Wow, this is cool. I need to tell somebody."

Since FM7, we have been able to set whether or not FileMaker automatically saves changes to a record or not. This is a layout option

Anytime the user does anything that will commit the record, this dialog comes up.

This is part 3 of a series of posts on using the MVC design pattern as inspiration for FileMaker design.

I have been searching since day one for an architecture that can make designing, extending and maintaining a complex FileMaker system easier. I have yet to find one. Sometimes I think FileMaker is too flexible. There are too many easy ways to do things that will absolutely cause you myriads of grief later. I have tried several times to develop my own frameworks, but they always left me feeling like it was too much work.