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The Craft of FileMaker Design Studio: An Intensive, three day, learning experience.

Published on July 29, 2011. 0 Comments

Vanguard Custom SoftwareOur good friend, Don Levan, Vanguard Custom Software, is hosting the next Craft of FileMaker Design Studio on October 24th – 26th in New York City

Register before the end of the FileMaker Developer’s conference and save $300.

Attendees of The Design Studio will learn a formal process for designing exceptional FileMaker solutions:

  • Conduct design research
  • Derive requirements from personas and scenarios
  • Identify and use design patterns
  • Develop and refine ideas
  • Prototype and  test designs
  • Utilize feedback to improve solutions

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Philly FileMaker now on Facebook

Published on September 28, 2010. 2 Comments

I was complaining the other day that I just didn’t have enough social media in my life.  This ought to solve the problem, for now.

As with so many things here at Philly FileMaker, it’s an experiment.  If it floats, we’ll keep it, if it sinks…you must promise never to speak of it again.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Philly-FileMaker-User-Group/126085994109837

- Colin

 
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Peachpit Press User Group and Apple User Group affiliations – Lending Library and discounts

Published on February 17, 2010. 0 Comments

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.

PeachPit User Group Affiliation

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.

Currently available:

Paperless: Real-World Solutions with Adobe Technology (J.P. Terry)

Web Anatomy: Interaction Design Frameworks that Work (Hoekman & Spool)

The permalink to the Lending Library is here:

http://www.phillyfilemaker.org/index.php/members/lending-library/

And a link can always be found in the right sidebar of this blog; look for the yellow Peachpit logo.

Apple User Group Affiliation

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:

http://appleusergroupresources.com/?cat=12

Note that you’ll need to contact me directly to get the discount code for a particular item.

Colin

colin.keefe@itsolutions-inc.com

 
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Five Minutes with Philly FileMaker: Pause On Error Portland

Published on January 27, 2010. 0 Comments

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.

 
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2009 Bonanza Meeting Recap; 2010 Goals

Published on January 8, 2010. 0 Comments

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).

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Anthoni Celini featured in FileMaker Inc. Customer Story

Published on December 7, 2009. 0 Comments

For those of you who attended Anthony Celini’s presentation back in June 2009 (Case Study: FileMaker’s ROI for Oncology Services International), FileMaker Inc. has posted a Customer Story on the project:

“FileMaker 10 helps OSI double growth while cutting costs”

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.

 
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Loreli Voltmer, PFUG Member, interviewed by FileMaker Addict

Published on February 25, 2009. 1 Comment

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.

Congratulations, Loreli! Go read it now.

 
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