Monthly Archives: June 2012

More About Reference Tools

The recent post from my fellow MightyData developer, Darren Burgess, caused me to reflect on my own developer reference tool. This is a tool I built using FileMaker, since there were times I needed the function reference offline, or without a floating help window. I built this tool a few years ago starting just with calculation [...]

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Leads Are Seeds

I will have been in my position at MightyData, as THE salesman or cleverly named Manager of First Impressions, for one year on July 5. It has been pointed out that I am the only team member that has not posted a blog, so it is time I get on it. I have learned a [...]

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Why I Use Basecamp

Up until recently, MightyData has been using Mantis to track issues to solve, along with an internally created FileMaker to-do list that we call MightyTask. Early this year, we decided to take another look at Basecamp. Mantis has always done a good job of tracking issues and is very developer-oriented, but customer adoption was rough. [...]

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Getting Faster: Create a Developer’s Reference

As a developer looking to deliver projects to my customers with the highest value, I am constantly looking for ways to increase my development speed. To that end I have created a developers’ reference library using a handy (and free) little application called Notational Velocity.  NV is an OS X application that allows for rapid creation [...]

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7th Annual Women of FileMaker Lunch at DevCon

Even though I will not be attending DevCon this year, I wanted to help get the word out for one of my favorite annual meetings! If you’re going to DevCon, and you’re female, you should definitely attend this event. The 7th annual Women of FileMaker Lunch is free and provides an excellent opportunity for women [...]

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FM Academy Presents MirrorSync: Offline Synchronization for Your iPad and Laptop

MirrorSync from 360Works is a bidirectional synchronization tool for syncing FileMaker Server with offline databases running in FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Go. MirrorSync requires no plug-ins, runs on either a laptop or an iOS device, and is easy to add to your existing FileMaker solution.

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Omitting Someone (or Something) on Twitter

I use the “column” feature in TweetDeck to follow various topics on Twitter. Recently, someone started using a Twitter handle that includes a keyword I use frequently to monitor custom software development. Unfortunately, their tweets have very little to do with the topic. Most of them are personal comments between professional colleauges. Being a database guy, [...]

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