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Goodbye DevCon

Published on August 19, 2010. 0 Comments

Chad and I are at the airport, heading back.  We’ll have lots to talk about next Tuesday – that’s when our next meeting is, by the way.  Got too wrapped up to send out an announcement; I’ll get that out later today hopefully.

August 24th, 6 PM, DevCon Recap, at the usual location:

IT Solutions Consulting, Inc.
414 Commerce Drive
Suite 150
Fort Washington PA 19034

We’ll be recording this one this time, not streaming it, mainly because we’ll be using Jason’s fancypants camera and mike.  If you liked the quality of the latest rash of 5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker videos, you’ll like the next meeting recording.

For DevCon folks this year – safe travels and see you next year!

- Colin

 
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5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker featuring Matt Navarre

Published on August 18, 2010. 2 Comments

Matt Navarre, MSN Media, joined me for a chat at the FileMaker Developer Conference 2010 in San Diego about vertical market solutions, FileMaker’s Quick Find feature, and of course his FileMaker Talk podcast. Matt is moderating several panel discussions at Devcon this year, hopefully a growing trend for future conferences.

 
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5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker featuring Molly Connolly

Published on August 18, 2010. 0 Comments

On Tuesday, August 17, at the FileMaker Developer Conference I had a chance to chat with FBA Excellence Award winner Molly Connolly, Thorsen Consulting, about several panel discussions that she is moderating at this year’s DevCon. It’s always a pleasure to get a chance to chat with Molly. Hopefully we can get her out to IT Solutions sometime in the months to come for a user group meeting.

 
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2010 FileMaker DevCon Update

Published on August 18, 2010. 0 Comments

Well, it’s already Wednesday and all my plans for a detailed, literate, forensic analysis of the various sessions are…well, they’re a complete wash.

I will say I’ve picked up a little more information about FileMaker Go and have a better sense of how it can fit in the FileMaker ecosystem in interesting ways.  The wheels are turning.  Also enjoyed very much Michael Lee’s SQL presentations – very elegant (He’s from ProofGroup, so elegance goes without saying), and his presentation style was welcoming, lighthearted and perceptive.  Using repeating fields for cross tab reports – exploding out values using Get(CalculationRepetitionNumber) – is something I’ve had some experience with, but I’ve often had performance problems pointing those calcs against a set of related values and so on.  I have some stuff to try out at home.

This isn’t going to be a terribly informative post.  Mainly I wanted to toss up a few photos from last night’s dinner on the USS Midway.  So here they are.  Thanks to Andrew Ulane for the cockpit photo.

Hope everyone has a great final day at DevCon!

- Colin

 
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5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker featuring Don Levan

Published on August 16, 2010. 0 Comments

Get a preview of two sessions by Don Levan, Vanguard Custom Software, that will be presented on Tuesday at the FileMaker Development Conference in San Diego, CA. Don joined us at IT Solutions in Philly to give us a sneak peek at his interface sessions in spring 2010.

Also check out www.fmcraftworkshops.com for info on a special FileMaker design seminar in NYC in October.

 
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phillyfilemaker DevCon meetup at noon today.

Published on August 16, 2010. 0 Comments

We’re aware there are some conflicts – notably with the Women of FileMaker luncheon – but we’re keeping this on the agenda for today, and may arrange a second meeting later this week.

Noon today, look for the bright red Phillies cap in the dining area.

 
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From the City of Brotherly Love to the City of Unspeakably Nice Weather (or: how I stopped worrying and learned to love an ambient temperature of 71 degrees)

Published on August 16, 2010. 0 Comments

I stepped off the puddle jumper plane from LA to San Diego (en route from Philadelphia) and squinted into the bright light, scowling at the light breeze.  71 degrees?  Seriously?

I’m a firm believer that the West Coast was invented to mock East Coasters.  “See how happy you can be when you don’t need to sweat in 100 degree weather or shovel four feet of snow off your Subaru Forrester?  And oh, by the way, here we actually use our sunroofs.”  Uncomfortable pause.  “And, come on.  A Subaru Forrester?  Do you wear anoraks too?”

It wasn’t always this way with the FileMaker DevCon.  It used to be that you’d crawl out of your transportation device of choice into a humid steam bath and say to yourself, “yeah, okay, this sun thing is nice, but at least I don’t live 20 miles from downtown huddled in an air conditioning bubble”.

No longer.  FileMaker DevCon these days is now held in places that make me envious. Continue reading ‘From the City of Brotherly Love to the City of Unspeakably Nice Weather (or: how I stopped worrying and learned to love an ambient temperature of 71 degrees)’

 
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5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker featuring Mike Lee

Published on August 16, 2010. 0 Comments

Mike Lee, Proof Group, joined me for a quick chat Sunday morning to discuss his FileMaker DevCon sessions called SQL to the Rescue about using SQL inside FileMaker solutions. Look for more video interviews and DevCon blog posts throughout the conference from all of the IT Solutions team attending this year’s conference.

 
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5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker featuring John Sindelar

Published on August 16, 2010. 1 Comment

We’re at the FileMaker Developer Conference 2010 in San Diego, CA getting ready for an excellent week of networking and learning about all of things FileMaker. This afternoon I dusted off the video camera and started lining up a great list of FileMaker experts to spend a few minutes chatting with to see what they have coming up at DevCon and what mind blowing tips and tricks they’re seeing out in the community. I’m kicking off a new batch of 5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker interviews with our good buddy John Sindelar, SeedCode. John is doing his annual Year in Review session Monday morning, which I already know will be a DevCon highlight.

Chad Sager and Colin Keefe are also representing IT Solutions at DevCon. If you’re at the conference, be sure to say hi!

 
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FileMaker DevCon!

Published on August 6, 2010. 0 Comments

As many of you know, the 2010 FileMaker DevCon is coming up soon – August 15-18, to be exact.  We’re going to be doing a recap meeting on Tuesday August 24.  I’ll have more on that in a few weeks,but I think we can safely assume that FileMaker Go will be on the agenda!

If you’re from eastern PA, please email me at colin.keefe@itsolutions-inc.com – we’re planning a get together for Philly FileMaker folks on Monday.  I’ll reply with the details.

Some tools to keep you connected to what’s going on: Continue reading ‘FileMaker DevCon!’

 
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