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On Tuesday evening, August 24, at the IT Solutions office, I shared this video with the Philly FileMaker User Group during our Annual DevCon Recap meeting…having a little fun at DevCon! Thanks for all of those who made cameo appearances and agreed to go on camera (including two FBA Excellence Award Winners!!!)
Greetings FileMaker Enthusiasts,
Our next Philadelphia FileMaker User Group meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday evening, August 24th 2010 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
+ Full Google Map: http://bit.ly/d7L05o (or just mess with the inline map below)
As always, pizza and soft drinks will be provided.
Please RSVP here if you are planning to attend this meeting:
http://www.fmpug.com/rsvp.php?eventID=1078
Presenters: Jason Mundok, Chad Sager, Colin Keefe
The fifteenth annual FileMaker Developer Convention was held August 15-18 in San Diego CA. We’ve just gotten back and can’t wait to share. Come join us for a discussion of FileMaker GO, new techniques and technologies, and a general roundtable talk.
Continue reading ‘Please join us August 24: 2010 FileMaker DevCon Recap’
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
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
Many thanks to Don Levan (Vanguard Custom Software) for coming out and presenting to the group!
Don presented to a packed house (28 people) on the impact of successful user interfaces, working within the constraints of human psychology and physiology – and optimizing workflows and tools for humans (as opposed to developers 
). Drawing liberally from Edward Tufte, Alan Cooper and Donald Norman for background material, Don laid out some excellent groundwork for building the right software tools for the job that are easy to learn and efficient to use.
This is a topic he’ll be presenting at the 2010 FileMaker DevCon (in San Diego in August), so it was great to get a preview of the material.
Here are some photos from the meeting. Tried out my new cell phone’s camera…it is what it is.
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