FileMaker Pro 21.1 enhances AI capabilities with semantic search for images and text, adds security updates, and improves script controls. It streamlines layout management and file handling, and overall introduces more than 300 impactful features.

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bBox version 1.05 introduces schema change notifications, a new Ubuntu ARM binary, and DuckDB integration, replacing SQLite functions. This free utility plug-in enhances FileMaker solutions, supporting multiple coding libraries. Updates include Python 3.13 on macOS and JQ 1.7.1.

EngageU, the largest Claris / FileMaker Developer conference in Europe, takes place in Malmö this November 17th-19th with Claris as primary sponsor, and Beezwax as exhibitor and sponsor. At EngageU, Vincenzo Menanno delivers sessions on building great solutions and utilizing InspectorPro for diagnostics and in-depth analysis. The conference attracts top partners, developers, and community leaders focusing on innovation in Claris and FileMaker platform development.

If you go looking for a FileMaker script step called Perform Script on Server on Server, you are not going to find it.

Rome FileMaker Week, held from October 9-11, features presentations by Beezwax’s Vincenzo Menanno and Fabio Bosisio. Topics include creating iOS widgets using Javascript and the powerful ‘Local File’ technique for enhancing FileMaker development. Beezwax sponsors the event, emphasizing training, sharing, and enjoyment within the community.

We all use third party services, things like Stripe for payments, Sendgrid for email or Sentry for error reporting. Those services offer to solve some of our engeneering problems in exchange for money. Most of the time they are very convenient to use, as rolling your own solution would take considerable time and effort, and […]

Dreamforce was always a bit of a disruption for me as a San Franciscan—traffic, closed roads, did I mention traffic? This year, instead of sitting in my car waiting to inch forward, I shared a Waymo to get around The City, and experienced Dreamforce firsthand. As a marketer, I was eager to see how Salesforce […]

In this post I’ll share the most critical plugins I use in Vim in my day to day as a web developer. The plugins I just can’t live without, as well as some bonus nice-to-have plugins. I use regular Vim, not Neovim, but I think all of my plugins will also work in Neovim. My […]

As conference speakers at Reconnect.Brisbane, Katherine Russell and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present two sessions: • AI with FileMaker 2024: Get More Out of Your Data and Apps • The Collaborative Journey: Evolving Through Code, Teams, and Technology

I’m reading A Philosophy of Software Design, by John K. Ousterhout, a professor of computer science at Stanford University and the creator of the Tcl (pronounced “tickle”) programming language. According to this other review he has almost two decades of real world software experience, so he seems to know a thing or two about software […]