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FileMaker Developer Conference 2013 – Schedule Announced

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Please Join us August 28th: 2012 FileMaker DevCon Recap!

The Philly FileMaker Crew at DevCon 2012, l to r:
Jerry Salem, Bryant Minard, Kevin Ayers, Colin Keefe, John Bolles, Dan Stein, and Dean Weisman

Greetings FileMaker Enthusiasts,

Our next Philadelphia FileMaker Developer Group meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday evening, August 28th, 2012 at 6:00 PM. The meeting will be held at the IT Solutions Fort Washington Office.

414 Commerce Dr., Suite 150, Fort Washington, PA 19034
Google Map

Please RSVP here if you are planning to attend this meeting:

2012 FileMaker DevCon Recap!

The sixteenth annual FileMaker Developer Convention was held in mid-June at the Hotel Fontainebleau in Miami Beach FL. We’ve just gotten back and can’t wait to share. We had a good showing of Philly FileMaker User Group members attending this year, so this ought to be a very lively session.

But probably not this lively:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=533bOT_R4Zo&feature=player_detailpage

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The FileMaker DevCon 2012 has begun!

DevCon 2012 has officially begun, and PhillyFileMaker folks are everywhere. We got together for a group shot this morning.

 

Philly FileMaker at DevCon

 

As you know, the FileMaker Developer Convention is right around the corner – 2 weeks away!

We’re going to try to get all the Philly FileMaker folks who are attending together for lunch or dinner and a few quick photos for phillyfilemaker.org.

Regulars and newcomers alike welcome – even if you’ve never been to one of our meetings, if you’re from PA, NJ, or DE, come, hang out, meet the rest of us, and share your DevCon experiences.

If you’re going to DevCon this year, please email me at colin.keefe (at) itsolutions-inc.com.

Let me know what days/times you’d be good for:

Monday: Breakfast, Lunch
Tuesday: Breakfast, Lunch
Wednesday: Breakfast, Dinner, or post dinner
Thursday: Breakfast, Lunch

 

FileMaker DevCon 2012 Session Schedule Announced

You can find the schedule here.  Now might be an appropriate time to pick up the $300 early bird discount – there’s a lot of great stuff in there.  One interesting change in the Conference is the addition of Vendor Demos as a Conference Track – you’ll see them sprinkled through the posted schedule.

PhillyFileMaker’s own Jerry Salem of IT Solutions will be presenting on Tuesday at 2PM.  Feel free to ignore all other tracks in that slot and give Jerry your full, undivided and devoted attention.

Look Both Ways Before Crossing the Street: System Documentation

Session Description

Why bother writing comments or documentation or following standards in the back end; especially if all the users ever see is the user interface? Now ask yourself another question: if you are hit by a bus, will your clients, colleagues, or development teammates be able to understand the code you have written to a degree that they can complete the project without you? Even in the rare cases where the answer is “yes,” inheriting your undocumented code may well jeopardize the project by delaying the schedule and putting it over budget. The simple act of following standards and creating documentation will make you a better programmer and will also help you to remember design choices you may have made years ago. What exactly are the things you should document? This session will help you make wise choices about the type of documentation to keep for a system, and also to create documentation that will actually help you and others understand your solutions.

Products & Technologies
  • FileMaker Pro
What You Will Learn
  • Learn to comment an entire solution to remember what you did months or years in the past
  • User documentation is just as important for the developer as for the users. Make it work for you!
  • All choices are made for good reasons, those reasons may not be true anymore, and what were those reasons?
  • Give yourself the discipline to be a better developer

 

Put it on your calendar! COR010.ics

 

Pause On Error: London – This Week!

Pause On Error, the FileMaker development unconference series that started back in 2009 as a way to bring FileMaker developers and enthusiasts together for a couple intense days of sharing, discussion and feedback, is heading over the big pond (or Atlantic Ocean rather) for an event in London on October 20 and 21. Pause[x]London is the first in a new approach to the unconferences. The steering committee is licensing the concept to anyone interested in hosting their own version of Pause On Error. The idea remains the same, though. The event is self-organized and free to attendees (limit 100), with the help of some nice donors/sponsors.

Pause[x]London will be trying another new concept: speaking via Skype. Our good buddy, Mark Richman, from Skeleton Key in St. Louis will be leading a session on (what else?) WAN performance. Only he’ll be doing it in his fuzzy slippers from the comforts of his digs in St. Louis. We’ll be keeping our eye on this, as this brave new session style could mean great things for future Pause events AND user groups like the Philadelphia FileMaker User Group.

If you can make it to Pause[x]London, do yourself a favor and get there. The Pause On Error events are a great way to build community around FileMaker development and get access to some of the best minds in the business.

 

 

 

Please Join Us August 30th: FileMaker DevCon Recap

Greetings FileMaker Enthusiasts,

Our next Philadelphia FileMaker Developer Group meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday evening, August 30th 2011 at 6:00 PM. The meeting will be held at the IT Solutions Fort Washington Office.  (Please note: this is a schedule change.)

414 Commerce Dr., Suite 150, Fort Washington, PA 19034

Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/37mhhh

Please RSVP here if you are planning to attend this meeting:

http://www.fmpug.com/rsvp.php?eventID=1212

2011 FileMaker DevCon Recap!

2011 FileMaker Developer Conference

The sixteenth annual FileMaker Developer Convention was held in early August in San Diego CA.  We’ve just gotten back and can’t wait to share.  A record-breaking TEN Philly FileMaker User Group members attended this year, so this ought to be a very lively session.

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Jerry Salem on FileMaker Success Tips!

Our very own Jerry Salem makes a guest appearance on the FileMaker Success Tips podcast talking about FileMaker and Drupal integration.

Also appearing on this special DevCon 2011 episode are our good friends Tim Neudecker from Kyo Logic, Lee Lukehart from SavvyData, and Kirk Bowman from MightData! Check it out here.

 

DevCon 2011 Recap

2011 FileMaker Developer ConferenceOver the past ten years, the annual FileMaker Developer Conference (DevCon) has been a truly enjoyable experience for me. It’s the one place on the globe that the best and brightest FileMaker talent gather for a little under a week to share ideas, learn techniques, find answers to challenges, collaborate, and get a few hints about the future of FileMaker.

This year’s conference was held at the gorgeous San Diego Hilton Bayfront where we enjoyed temperatures in the 70s with low humidity and a pleasant breeze. The accommodations and facility was top notch, with plenty of space for the conference and all of the normal hotel patrons.

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Developer Conference Spot Check

I arrived to this year’s FileMaker Developer Conference (DevCon) with just enough time to drop my bags and get to the Keynote Session.  I don’t think I would recommend cutting the trip so close next time, but it certainly made for an efficient day with an exciting ending.  The keynote was jam packed. It started with an overview of a few very nice solutions that have been built this past year to highlight the productivity gains and problems that can be solved with Filemaker Pro and FileMaker Go together.  In addition there were talks from FileMaker Product Managers on features that they are working on for future versions of Pro, Go and Server.  While I can’t go into any details here, I am certain that it will be a great year for FileMaker developers and users.

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