Since we set up affiliations with PeachPit and Apple via their respective User Group programs back in December, we now have some additional member benefits available.
In order to take advantage of benefits associated with either of these affiliations, you must have attended a meeting in the past 3 months. I’d also like to remind folks that FMPug membership is the hands-down best resource for FileMaker-specific member benefits and discounts – and I recommend joining today.
Through our Peachpit User Group membership, we receive monthly additions to a PFUG lending library. If there is a Peachpit title you’d like us to acquire, let us know. There’s not much to speak of yet in the Library, as we only started this program two months ago.
You can check out any of these titles at a user group meeting, and return it by the next meeting.
The Apple User Group program offers us a number of benefits, but the most immediately germane is the discount program. Discount offers on many products are available here:
I was fortunate to attend day one of Pause on Error in Portland and had a chance to chat with John Sindelar (SeedCode) and Ernest Koe (Proof) about what it was like to organize Pause II. We debuted this interview at the Philadelphia FileMaker User Group meeting held at the IT Solutions office in Fort Washington.
Since a large part of our December meeting was given over to a discussion of the goals and direction of the group, this recap post serves the added function of discussing some of those goals and how we plan to work toward them.
Recap!
Two dozen FileMaker enthusiasts converged on the the IT Solutions office for the 5th Annual PFUG Year End Bonanza on December 15th.
We continued our annual tradition of vendor discussions and giveaways, of course – congratulations to Dan Stein, Todd Chronister, Walter Burns, Preston Cabe, Tim Lynott, Mike Ahern, Bryant Minard, Gale Raspen and Michael Reddy for winning bonanza prizes from our generous sponsors! And a big thanks to SolutionMakers, Ben Waldie, ProofGroup and Seed Code, Thorsen Consulting, 360Works and Real EVO for participating and contributing to our event.
Our 2008 predictions for 2009 were, as usual, mostly wrong, but I don’t think anyone can be faulted for not guessing all the twists and turns 2009 held in store for us. We’ll have to wait until December 2010 before we can weigh in on the latest batch – though I somehow doubt “BJ and the Bear” will make it to the big screen this year (sorry, Jason).
Congrats to OSI and Tony. For those who didn’t attend our meeting, this was a great integration case study, using NMCI’s Genesis Accounting product and WorldSync SyncDek with FileMaker.
Our very own group member Loreli Voltmer of MATAAC has been interviewed by Tim Dietrich on his FileMaker Addict Blog.
Loreli’s history of moving from FoxPro to Access to FileMaker makes for great reading and an interesting case study for how skills transfer between database applications. It’s also useful to hear FileMaker discussed by a current user with a history external to the product.
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