EngageU, one of the biggest events in 2023 for the Claris / FileMaker Developer community, takes place in Antwerp on November 12-14 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.

I find search and replace to be a remarkably interesting topic, because it touches on so many Vim concepts. As a text editor, one of Vim’s superpower is composability, which enables combining small commands to accomplish complex tasks with search and replace.

Let's examine a strategy for leveraging the highly powerful tools within the pandas library for Python to enhance data analysis capabilities using the Claris FileMaker platform.

Layout calculations in Claris FileMaker enable us to include dynamic elements in text objects. This is a deceptively powerful addition to FileMaker's layout capabilities.

As a business owner, salesperson, or marketer, what you may not realize is that you are sitting on a gold mine. There’s a treasure trove of past leads and customers that you must do everything possible to activate. Mining through your Contacts database is like panning for gold. Sure, it can be tedious, but the Gold Miners who actively search regularly find areas likely to be more prosperous.

Pause (née “PauseOnError”) this week, highlighted by FileMaker Summer Camp in the northern Georgia hills.

Russ Catanach is Marketing Director at Beezwax, as well as host of the podcast DIY For Business. He’s sharing his insights, especially from a business perspective, on being a longtime Claris FileMaker user and developer.

In the Claris Roadmap 2023 announcement video, Andrew LeCates, Claris’s director of product marketing and evangelism, reconfirmed their goal of making FileMaker solutions more versatile and accessible. He also mentioned the company’s commitment to FileMaker and its core user community under a simplified platform stack, which includes Claris FileMaker, Claris Connect, and Claris Studio, with continued investment in FileMaker Server, FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Cloud and FileMaker WebDirect.

In this blog post, we will explore a solution for optimising a FileMaker app that handle large amounts of data. We will address the challenges of data storage, file corruption, and performance degradation when dealing with historical data. By leveraging cloud storage and serverless computing, we can offload and query this data efficiently, ensuring better performance and scalability.

At the July 2023 meeting for FM-DiSC, Fabio Bosisio from Beezwax demonstrates a clever approach to handle historical data in a FileMaker solution, utilizing a combination of AWS services and AWS Serverless framework. Use cases include archiving, data mining, and reporting. Learn how to achieve optimal performance when archiving historical data on AWS S3, and how to leverage Amazon Athena's Interactive SQL to execute queries via a FileMaker Pro app.

You’re invited to explore this blog post and demo file – as you embark on expanding your Claris FileMaker solutions into the vast and captivating realm of JavaScript.