Mike Beargie of Mainspring Mike starts off with two key changes at Mainspring over the past year that resulted in 90% plus utilization for their developers…think about that number. By streamlining their project management and sales processes, they have increased sales, efficiency and have work lined up and assigned to the right people: Mike’s interview […]
Python and FileMaker What is Python? From Wikipedia: An interpreted language, Python has a design philosophy which emphasizes code readability (notably using whitespace indentation to delimit code blocks rather than curly brackets or keywords), and a syntax which allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible in languages such as C++ […]
FileMaker Pro Developer Interview – Mike Beargie Join Don Clark of FileMakerProGurus.com as he learns more about Mike Beargie, now with Mainspring.com. Mike Beargie Mike is well known in the FileMaker community for his contributions on forums, helping out when people are having problems. Mike also blogs at his FMCommunityLive.org website. Mike also developed and […]
FileMaker Developer Interview – Nick Lightbody Do you need to routinely update your (or a clients) website? Would you like it to be fast and easy to do? And how would you like the website you built to be blazingly fast? Then you need to watch this interview of Nick Lightbody of DeskspaceCMS, about his FileMaker […]
E-Payments in FileMaker If you are planning to learn about E-Payments in FileMaker, watch this video of Mike Beargie about integrating E-payments in your custom app. Among other things, you’ll learn: The three keys to security Transmission Retention Tokenization Plugins (360Works Plastic in particular) API Handoffs Page Handoffs Reverse Writes Beargie also talks about CCQ-FM, a […]
Exciting New FileMaker Happenings from Mike Beargie Mike Beargie is operating on very little sleep, it appears, with his new website, FileMaker Community Live and a new, free iOS app, CoreScope, that allows FileMaker to grab meta data (think Carrier, Network, Battery info and more) from an iOS device. What is FileMaker Community Live? Here’s the answer in Mike’ own […]
Here’s what you’ll learn in this fascinating interview with Mainspring’s Mike Beargie: Tips from his WebDirect presentation The key to high performance in WebDirect Which is better in WebDirect: a concatenated text object or a field? The best way to make a list in WebDirect Optimizing the process flow for best performance Speed increase in FileMaker […]
FileMaker 14 WebDirect is very robust–much faster, more capability. But it lacks the one thing common to all web browsers: robust printing capabilities. Mike Beargie of MainSpring wrote about this last year at Devcon about WebDirect 13, and I just stumbled across his series of posts. The second concerned using CSS to print all existing layouts instead […]
More news on what happened at the latest Pause On Error this past October from Mike Beargie: About Pause on Error Where DevCon is the largest gathering of FileMaker Developers consisting of finely tuned sessions in large meeting rooms on a rigorous schedule, Pause on Error is small and geared toward think-tank style sessions. At […]
THE THIRD PART of Anvil Blog’s series on WebDirect dives deep into the heart of FileMaker’s own files to allow you to change the titles in WebDirect. They warn you in the article that this is not supported by FileMaker, and that future versions of FileMaker could break your hard work. This is not for […]
WEBDIRECT NEEDS the ability to print great output. I’ve seen a lot posts on Linkedin and other forums where people are asking for printing solutions for WebDirect. Mike Beargie and AnvilWorks taken a large step towards solving this problem, and one that will help move WebDirect forward: One of the largest hurdles to jump over in WebDirect’s […]
ANVIL DATAWORKS is running a four day series on WebDirect timed to coincide with the four day of Devcon. The first in the series covers some of the decisions you’ll face just getting your clients onto Webdirect: Ease of access is one of the top requirements to make a database “usable” to people. In FileMaker […]
Mike Beargie: Thanks for having me out Don. And thanks for taking the time to do interviews and contribute to the community!…