Our next Philadelphia FileMaker User Group meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday evening, October 26th 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
+ Google Map: http://bit.ly/d7L05o
As always, pizza and soft drinks will be provided.
Please
RSVP here if you are planning to attend this meeting.
INTEGRATING FILEMAKER WITH AMAZON WEB SERVICES
With Alan Deffenderfer, CEO, ABD Enterprises

This presentation will provide a brief overview of Amazon Web Services and then focus on performing a REST request to return product data from the Amazon product advertising API. Amazon API credentials, requirements and limitations will be discussed as well several strategies for performing a REST request from FileMaker that is AWS compatible. A use case that employs SmartPill PHP and XML/XSLT will be presented as one way harness and deploy Amazon Web Services in the real world.
About the Speaker
Alan Deffenderfer is CEO of ABD Enterprises, Inc. and has been developing with FileMaker since 2004. He has been a college professor for the last 14 years and has worked in the book industry since 1993. He currently uses FileMaker to run his own online book business.
Jason interviewed Alan before the 2009 DevCon recap; you can see the interview here.
Door Prize
We’ll also be giving away a door prize, courtesy of our User Group membership with PeachPit Press. Assuming we can obtain interesting stuff from PeachPit going forward, this may become a regular thing.
Undercover User Experience Design

Undercover User Experience is a great little primer on UX work, written by Cennydd Bowles and James Box.
About the Philadelphia FileMaker User Group
The Philadelphia FileMaker User Group was founded in 2004 as an initiative by FileMaker Business Alliance Platinum member IT Solutions Consulting. The group’s goal is to provide an open forum for FileMaker developers and those interested in FileMaker to meet, brainstorm and network.
We hold meetings the 4th Tuesday of every month at 6PM, in the office of IT Solutions Consulting, Inc., at 414 Commerce Drive, Suite 150, Fort Washington PA. Meetings are open to all, regardless of background and there’s no charge to attend.
Please subscribe to our Mailing List to get announcements on upcoming meetings. The list is set to Announce only, so the volume is typically between one and 2 emails a month.
You can read our blog to get updates and meeting recaps. Twitter here. Facebook over there.
We’re also an FMPug Chapter. Consider membership today, especially if you purchase training, plugins, 3rd party products, or web/filemaker hosting – FMPug membership affords considerable discounts across a range of offerings.
Finally, The Philadelphia FileMaker User Group is hosted by:
IT Solutions Consulting, Inc.
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http://www.itsolutions-inc.com/
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