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Thanks to Matt for coming down from NY to present! And to FileMaker Inc. for allowing us to present a recording of the session.
The uStream recording is here.
Matt’s presentation covered some of the advertised uses of Script Sequences – namely sequencing external batch or shell scripts with FileMaker scripts to extend the capabilities of FileMaker Server for things like imports/exports. Continue reading ‘Meeting Recap: Matt O’Dell of FMI on Server Side Script Sequencing (Video)’
Tim Neudecker did a great job last night both in terms of material presentation and in shepherding the group through a roundtable discussion of system design issues, touching on:
- hardware/insfrastructure concerns
- application concerns
- data integrity
Some of the highlights included a discussion of UI metaphors: data driven US compared to task driven US, and hybrid schemes.
You will want to fast forward about 5 minutes in; the audio dropped at the beginning of the presentation.
Well, our first attempt to stream our meetings was a resounding success-slash-FAIL. We had about 16 actual-real-life people in the room and a consistent remote viewership of about a dozen people (and about 20 all told over the course of the evening), with lots of chat feedback from the remote audience. All of that was great. But when I went to save the recording: FAIL. Too embarrassing to go into detail (let’s just say I thought that CANCEL button meant, er, something else). Better luck next time, I suppose, though I’m disappointed.
We’ll be trying a few things differently next go round. Aside from not breaking things, we’ll look into better views of the presentations themselves, rather than a shot of a darkened room with blobs moving around. Options include picture-in-picture or two simultaneous streams, or dumping the “room view” altogether when the presentation is heavily projection-driven.
In any case: the meeting itself was very informative and dynamic, with lots of participation from the in-person audience.
Continue reading ’7/28 Design Critique Meeting Recap’
Thanks to Jason Mundok for presenting Tuesday night! He did a great job walking through real-world, production examples of dynamic reporting and script triggers in FileMaker 10 before a group of 16 souls.
We were originally planning a Design Critique for June along the lines of our Critique last fall, but I think I’m going to push that back to July. There’s a great presenter in the pipeline that we’re trying to set up and hopefully will have with us in June – this is partly in response to those of you who asked for presentations on accounting package integration, and partly because, well, he’s a fantastic speaker. More when I can confirm it.
Colin
I just wanted to thank Ernest Koe @ernestkoe from Proofgroup ( @proofgroup ) for coming out and presenting. Colin will probably have more follow up to come.
I just wanted to let you guys know what Twitter ( wikipedia ) is, if you were wondering what he was asking about at the begining.
We had 19 folks come to hear Ben last night, and had a lively discussion about AppleScript, AppleScript Studio, XCode, Automator, the whole bit. Thanks for coming out, Ben!
Plans to webcast the presentation were killed by me earlier in the week, mainly due to procrastinatory tendencies.
Ben sent me a few links as a followup, if you want to get a sense of the meeting’s agenda.
This is the presentation file he used during the meeting, in PDF format.
This is his complete list of presentations, books and so on.
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