Using BaseElements FileMaker Plugin to Generate Code – Video

BaseElements FileMaker Plugin BaseElements is very powerful free plugin from Goya . Among it's dozens of useful features is the ability to create FileMaker code in the form of ClipBoard objects and place them on the clipboard so you can...

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What Can WordPress Teach FileMaker?

WordPress is the dominant web platform on the planet.  It's ecosystem is orders of magnitude larger than FileMaker's. Clearly they are doing something right.  Is there anything that FileMaker and FileMaker Developers can learn from Wordpress's success? At first blush,...

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Clearing DreamPress Cache In One Step

DreamPress is a supercharged, optimized for WordPress VPS from Dreamhost.  We run geistinteractive.com and modularfilemaker.org on it. It uses Varnish and Memcached to keep Wordpress just zipping along. Overall I'd say we are pretty happy with it. But when you are...

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The most long-term success tends to come from reducing, to the greatest extent possible, the need for agreement and consensus.

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Hazard’s of Consensus

The most long-term success tends to come from reducing, to the greatest extent possible, the need for agreement and consensus. - Isaac Z. Schlueter Issac is the creator of npm, the nodejs package management system.  This quote is the opening line of a great post on...

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FileMaker Separation Model: Splitting a File Video

The FileMaker Separation Model has been around for a long time.  It started way back in the pre FileMaker 7 days.  It's not right for every project, and sometimes you can go too far, (see update below) but it sure can help with large complex solutions.  I am not going...

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Gathering Filemaker Records with HyperList v2.0

Gathering Filemaker Records with HyperList v2.0

The modularfilemaker.org module, HyperList, is one of the best examples of what can happen when you get a community involved in developing solutions to common problems.  HyperList v2 gains support for gathering multiple fields and it can optionally detect and use the...

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Modular FileMaker Application Development

ModularFileMaker.org has done really well in 2013.  There are lots of modules available now, and the list keeps growing. One question that we are trying to answer is how do we organize our "Modules" into an "Application?  This is a topic that will likely remain beyond...

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Looping Through and Filtering Lists with FileMaker

Looping Through and Filtering Lists with FileMaker

Looping through and filtering lists of values turns out to be a common task in FileMaker.  Having a few different techniques at your disposal is quite useful. In this post, we are going to look at a set of related techniques for processing lists.  First we look at how...

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A Human Approach to Education

I need your help. As some of you may know, Geist Interactive has been very involved in the founding and support of One Spark Academy, a non-profit learning center for middle aged school kids here in Thousand Oaks CA. When my wife, Lori Peters, and I founded One Spark...

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MasterDetail and Record ID

Daniel Wood suggested a rather interesting idea on how to make HyperList and MasterDetail even faster.  In short he suggested using FileMaker's built in record ID instead of the primary key.  Its really rather brilliant and turns out to work quite well.  You can read...

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