We’re a FileMaker User Group serving the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware Region
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.
Just a final reminder, folks: meeting tonight at 6 PM. See details here.
Ustream session will be posted here:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/philly-filemaker-user-group
Highlights:
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September 22 Meeting:
- Tim Neudecker – Supporting Users with System Design
— About the Presenter
- Stump the Chump experts
Other News:
- October 29th: FREE FileMaker Seminar; iPod Shuffle giveaway (details below)
- New Training Classes
- About the Philadelphia FileMaker User Group
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Here’s the DevCon Recap video stream. It’s close to 80 minutes long, so you may want to have it running in the background while you work. Jason Mundok, Alan Deffenderfer, David Hollander and Bryant Minard present. We had about 20 people in person and 7 watching the live stream. You can blame the shaky cam late in the video on me trying to do smooth panning by holding my MacBook over my head and pointing iSight while watching the feed on another laptop. Yes, lame. But at least not a FAIL.
Enjoy!
Colin
As posted here, we’ll be meeting tonight at 6 PM. Jason Mundok, David Hollander and Alan Deffenderfer will be discussing what they learned at DevCon, in a roundtable discussion format. Not a meeting to miss if you didn’t make it to DevCon.
As with the July meeting, we’ll stream to uStream:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/philly-filemaker-user-group
We hope you can join us, in person or otherwise.
Highlights:
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- 2009 FileMaker Developer Conference RECAP
—Jason Mundok moderates
- Stump the Chump experts
- About the Philadelphia FileMaker User Group
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Continue reading ‘Join us August 25th: DevCon Recap’
FileMaker on FaceBook
FileMaker’s FB DevCon page here
Opening video from The Branding Agency here, click on HD video tab
Tim Dietrich covers the DevCon PHP User Group meeting here
Jason Mundok of IT Solutions Inc interviews Tim Neudecker here
Jason Mundok of IT Solutions Inc interviews Adam Aronson here
Chris Kubica’s blogging the DevCon here, and posted a pre-opening session video here
Rick Stringer’s blogging the DevCon: Early arrival here, precon and tweetup here
#fmdevcon hashtag on Twitter
@phillyfilemaker on Twitter (will be tweeting links to blog entries)
Adatosol will be podcasting; you can subscribe to the podcasts in iTunes or look for them here.
FileMakerTalk (Matt Navarre & Matt Petrowsky) are posting podcast updates here
Jason’s at the 2009 FileMaker DevCon now, and over the next few days he’ll be interviewing people about their experiences at DevCon. The miniseries is called “Five Minutes with Philly FileMaker”, and here’s the first installment, an interview with Adam Aronson of Full City Consulting, a Red Hook NY based firm that covers the NJ/NY/CT tristate area. Full City Consulting also runs two of our neighbor user groups - the NJ FileMaker Pro User’s Group and the Upstate New York FileMaker Developer’s Group.
More to come…I’ll post an interview with Tim Neudecker when I get into the IT Solutions office, and Jason’s got a laundry list of folks to snag, so watch this space.
Enjoy!
The FileMaker Developers Conference 2009 in San Francisco is fast approaching – PreCon sessions start Thursday August 13 at 8 AM, and the official opening session is 6:30 PM that night!
Since the release of FileMaker 10 in January this year, best practices for a number of techniques, practices and design patterns have changed drastically due to script triggers, the toolbar, and myriad other new features, and many of the scheduled sessions reflect this change in the FileMaker programming landscape.
So the 2009 DevCon promises to be an exciting time…and the Philly FileMaker User Group will be there. Jason Mundok of IT Solutions will be on the spot and posting to this blog whenever he can pry himself away from a session. We have some ideas in mind that are still in the works, so watch this space on Friday, Saturday and Sunday!
Other resources for following what’s going on at DevCon this year:
NEW: Chris Kubica’s blogging the DevCon here
NEW: Rick Stringer’s blogging the DevCon here
#fmdevcon hashtag on Twitter
@phillyfilemaker on Twitter (will be tweeting links to blog entries)
Adatosol will be podcasting; you can subscribe to the podcasts in iTunes or look for them here.
There’s no official word from FileMakerTalk (Matt Navarre & Matt Petrowsky) that I know of, but I’m expecting them to podcast as well.
If you’re lucky enough to be at DevCon, then FMPug’s DevCon Scheduler is indispensable and FREE; find it here. You can not only view session schedules; you can see how many people plan to go to each session – know which ones are popular, and which ones you’re likely to find a good seat in. As a bonus, it includes a Friend Locator and a Message Board!
Finally, FMPug is also offering sponsor discounts on a slew of products during DevCon, whether you’re at DevCon or not. All that’s required is that you be an FMPug member in good standing. Go here.
- Colin
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’
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