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Interviewing: How do you find the right person?

MightyData has a very extensive interview process. Does it always ensure you hire the right person? Hopefully, but of course, nothing is guaranteed. However, we feel strongly that our interview process weeds out the ones who are not the best fit. Over my years in management, I have done at least 1000 interviews. I’m not [...]



ImageMagick and FileMaker

A few months ago I wrote a piece on image manipulation in FileMaker container fields on Mac OS X. That type of manipulation was relatively simple – rotating an image – but required AppleScript and ImageEvents. What if you required a more complex adjustment of images, such as converting from TIFF to JPEG, or compression, [...]



Expect the Unexpected

Soooo… your well-planned day just had a wrench thrown in it. Now what??? There is, of course, no way to plan for everything. But, you can plan for some of it! Best laid plans go astray, they say. And I flatly disagree. If your plans are going astray, it is usually because there has been [...]



New Year’s Database Resolution: Backup! (Part 2)

In part one of this series, I explained the changes I would make to the default backup schedules installed with FileMaker Server—the “what”. Now I want to take a moment and explain the “why” and clarify some points about my recommendations. 23 Hourly Backups – The Hourly schedule is set to keep 23 hourly backups [...]



New Year’s Database Resolution: Backup! (Part 1)

So, it is a brand new year and everyone is making resolutions for their personal and professional lives. Along with going to the gym and learning to fill-in-the-blank better, I want to challenge you to make a goal to backup your database better. (Hopefully, you are already backing up some.)  The easiest way to backup [...]



Gettin’ Ready for 2012!

My favorite thing (right behind checking things off a list) is throwing things away. And the new year always brings inspiration for just that kind of activity. Everyone likes to start the year fresh. One of my goals this year is to go totally paperless in my personal life. With that plan comes great opportunity [...]



Tips and Tricks to be More Efficient

It’s a constant battle. How can you be more efficient without losing your effectiveness? As a project manager, efficiency actually increases your effectiveness. Over time, I’ve come up with some little tricks. “They” say there is no such thing as multi-tasking. And they are right. You can only do one thing at a time, but [...]



5 Techniques for Building a Solution in FileMaker Go – Recording

In case you missed the November 10th webinar, 5 Techniques for Building a Solution in FileMaker Go, or want to review the sample file, the video and FileMaker demo are now available. MightyData is proud to work with FM Academy to bring you this free webinar. 5 Important Techniques for Building a Solution in FileMaker Go [...]



MightyData Seeks Senior Software Developer – FileMaker Emphasis

Do you enjoy developing custom software that truly impacts the customer’s business? Are you more concerned with the end-result than the underlying technology? Do you want to be part of a team that will only accept excellence? If you answered yes to all these questions and you have at least five years of FileMaker development [...]



MightyData Seeks Junior Software Developer – Learning Emphasis

Have you had a taste of software development using FileMaker, PHP/MySQL or another platform? Do you think you are a budding developer who only needs a great opportunity to shine? Would you like to work side-by-side with a team of experts? If you answered yes to all these questions and you have at least two [...]





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