Fireside FileMaker™ is a podcast collaboration between John Mark Osborne and Michael Rocharde discussing FileMaker related topics. We’ll guide you through the ins and outs of complex FileMaker decisions within the warmth and comfort of a campfire discussion amongst friends. Download an episode and try us out and please leave comments. We would love to hear your thoughts on existing podcasts or suggestions for future FileMaker related episodes.
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A dedicated FileMaker Pro Podcast. Well-known personalities Matt Petrowsky of ISO FileMaker Magazine (https://www.filemakermagazine.com) and Matt Navarre (https://msnmedia.com/) are your hosts for the show.
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The Claris FileMaker 2020 Year Review
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Today's episode is brought to you by FMPerception and its companion product FMComparison (in beta, for registered users of FMPerception). Here's the pieces we point out: Communities: Claris FileMaker Community (and all the JS questions) The FMSoup FMForums Social Media: FB FileMaker Pro Users/Developers Group FB FileMaker UI Design Group FB FileMak…
In this PodCast, we highlight yet another hero in the FileMaker market, Wim Decorte of Soliant Consulting. As long as there has been FileMaker, it seems like Wim has been there helping people on the message boards, writing white papers and presenting at Claris DevCon/Engage. He even created an open source FileMaker product, called the Punisher, aim…
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UI/UX Fundamentals For Workflow-Based Design Course, with Alexis Allen
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The course description is found here. And check out the UI/UX Facebook page.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
Developing a vertical market FileMaker solution is something that many developers have wanted to do but few do it because they don't have the depth of knowledge as to how to go about it. In this fascinating conversation Michael Rocharde & Marc Larochelle, both of whom have developed successful vertical market solutions, talk with John Mark Osborne …
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Discussing DayBack Calendar & FileMaker Development History, with John Sindelar
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Today's episode is brought to you by Otto. John Sindelar of SeedCode joins us today to talk about DayBack Calendar Here's the video of John and Todd coding. It's a highlight reel of three days of coding. Check out Pause on Error's Suitcase ProtocolBy Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
In this episode, we are joined by a very special guest, Nick Orr from Goya, in Australia (https://goya.com.au). Nick is the creator of BaseElements, a FileMaker analysis tool which has been around since 2006 and which is one of the preeminent analysis tools for FileMaker developers. We’re also joined by our regular guest Marc Larochelle from Produc…
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FileMaker Origin Stories Ep. 11: John, Kimberly, and Stephan
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John Sindelar is CEO of SeedCode, makers of the DayBack Calendar (a new version for FileMaker 19!) Kimberly Carlson is President of AppWorks. Stephan Casas is found in the Claris Community. Follow him there.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
Every once in a while, we find ourselves with a guest who brings a totally unexpected and fascinating viewpoint. These are the episodes that go way beyond the 'you should listen' and reach ‘you must listen'. Today's podcast is one of those episodes. We are joined by Darrin Southern, from CadenceUX in Melbourne, Australia, for an absolutely incredib…
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Claris FileMaker 19: In-Product Add-ons
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This episode is brought to you by LedgerLink. Check out the Add-ons blog post series starting here: And review videos about them from Claris. We have an entire framework that you can use to create add-ons. And we have some JS utilities you can use in your own work.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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These are a few of our favorite things - Part 2
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In Part 1 of this podcast John Mark and I talked about the major and significant features of all FileMaker versions back to the very beginning or rather when Claris bought it from Nashoba. In Part 2, we start with FileMaker 9 and go all the way up to the current version, Version 19.By firesidefilemaker
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FileMaker Origin Stories, Ep 10: Michael, Mary, and Andrew
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My three guests today are Michael Layne CTO of Gearbox Solutions Find him on Twitter or LinkedIn Mary McCassey of Butterfield Technologies Inc. Andrew Duncan of DatabuzzBy Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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FileMaker Diffs: FMComparison, with Dave Ramsey
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Check out FMComparison. It is in beta, and is free now and forever for licensed users of FMPerception. Follow FMPerception on Twitter. Follow Dave Ramsey on Twitter. Check out Dave's Podcast with Joe Simpson: https://project-update.com/By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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These are a few of our favorite things
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In this two part podcast, John Mark and I go back deep into the past to discuss the most important and influential features released in each version of FileMaker. Many, if not most, of these fetures are still in use today but they have all paved the way for the deveopment powerhouse that FieMaker is today. Even though, nobody really needs to know w…
Today's episode is brought to you by FMPerception Wim participated in two panels during Claris Engage. Check out Soliant's Cloud Services Wim and others at Soliant have written much about this topic.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
This week's episode is brought to you by LedgerLink Check out Andrew Duncan at Databuzz.com.au. Take a look at his products and services.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
Last week, the 1st Claris Engage conference took place, virtually, over a 2 day period. John Mark and Michael plus our special guest Marc Larochelle (from Productive Computing) reminisce about previous DevCons and then, at 11 minutes in, we start to discuss the conference itself. (All of the sessions are available to watch at https://filemakersuppo…
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Claris Engage 2020 Thoughts (and more about Add-ons) with Todd
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Claris Engage 2020 is over, but the good times and reminiscing is not. We at Geist Interactive are still celebrating the event with a once-in-a-year 20% off Sale. Check it out. Todd spoke in two sessions. His first was on JS and Add-ons. His second was a panel about add-ons. They're found in the Claris Academy The Solving FM Use Cases with JavaScri…
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FileMaker Origin Stories, Ep 9: Deborah & Stathis & Will
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My guests today are Stathis Askaridis of Sicoa Will Loving of Dedication Technologies, Inc Deborah Zempel of Deborah Zempel Consulting The learning resources these folks mentioned are: John Mark Osborne of Database Pros and Philosophy of FileMaker Matt Petrowsky of Filemaker Magazine Geist Interactive The Support Group The FileMaker Training Series…
We invited Darren Terry on our show to talk about the calculation dependency tree (what triggers calculations to fire). What we got was so much more than we expected. Darren’s close ties with Claris engineers and dedication to the platform has given him insight into how FileMaker works under the hood. To put it simply, both of us were flabbergasted…
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FileMaker Origin Stories Ep 8: Allison & Ignasi & Mike
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Allison works at Skeleton Key Ignasi is found in FMForums Mike works at MainSpring The learning resources mentioned include: Productive Computing's PCU The old FileMaker Training Series (beloved by many) The Claris Community (long ago called "The Technet" And for historical reference: Susan Prosser's Missing Manual book series.…
This episode is brought to you by LedgerLink. Here's the question Jeremy asked a long time ago. The book Database Design for Mere Mortals is an excellent read about all things data Structure.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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FIleMaker Go: Covering a lot with Claus Lavendt
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This episode is brought to you by Otto. Claus Lavendt is part of Datamanix. Follow them on Twitter He has a new free tool called DM InsertText Helper Apple's Human Interface Guidelines are found here. GoZync and other products try to solve the syncing process, but it is still hard. Alexis Allen talked with us previously about Workflow based design.…
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FileMaker Origin Stories Ep 7: Beverly and David and Mike Duncan
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Mike Duncan works at Soliant Consulting David Wilkstrom runs CamelCase Data Beverly Voth is very active in the community. Follow her. She's got lots of great knowledge.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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Evolving Our Thinking, with Todd & Dave
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Today's episode is brought to you by LedgerLink. In a very old video, Todd talks about Selector Connector. Jason Young of Seedcode also worked out Selector Connector. We use our Karbon Framework, which supports the idea of separation of concerns and business / UI logic.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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FileMaker 19: Shortcuts and NFC, with Cris Ippolite
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This episode is brought to you by FMPerception. Check it out. Download the 14-day trial and see how awesome it works in FileMaker 19. Todd is leading a webinar for Claris on JavaScript and Add-ons. You can register to join one of the two sessions here: Cris, of iSolutions, brought us a lot of information, and he's done a lot of work on the topics o…
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FileMaker Origin Stories: Ep 6: Thomas & Teresa, Jesse, and Greg
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Thomas and Teresa Mokwa are of Pro File Developers Jesse Roberts owns and runs N2O Solutions Greg Lane is Vice President of Skeleton KeyBy Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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FileMaker 19: JS Functions with Todd
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Today's episode is brought to you by LedgerLink. We've got a lot of information coming up about the topics covered in this episode. Stay tuned to Geist Interactive's blog site for those posts. Here's some details and learning resources (more to come at www.geistinteractive.com): JavaScript contains Synchronous and Asynchronous functions. The new Fi…
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FileMaker Origin Stories Ep 5: Makah, Martha, Alycia, Anastasia, and Sara
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Makah, Martha, Sara, Alycia, and Anastasia all are at Soliant Consulting. Anastasia came to the platform through 42 Silicon Valley.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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FileMaker 19: FileMaker Add-ons with BigTom
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This episode is brought to you by FMPerception. We've written about the FileMaker Execute Data API script step to return records or to get metaData. And We've written about how to create add-ons.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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FileMaker Origin Stories: Ep 4: Kristine and Josh W and Mark
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Kristine Anmark is part of SquareMoon in Stockholm, Sweden. Josh Willing is found in the Claris Community. Mark Richman is founder and CEO of Skeleton Key. Other Links: LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com) Database Pros (John Mark Osborne)By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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FileMaker 19: Execute FileMaker Data API, and CoreML with Cris Ippolite
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This episode is brought to you by FMPerception. Cris Ippolite is our guest. He's the Founder / Head Coach / Trainer of iSolutions. Cris has courses on LinkedIn Learning. Check those out to learn more about Claris FileMaker 19. Things we talked about: 1. Todd's thoughts on the Open Platform Release. 2. Blog post the Perform FileMaker Data API script…
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FileMaker 19 - A Revolution in the Making
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John Mark Osborne and Michael Rocharde are proud to release a special 2 hour episode discussing the release of FileMaker 19 and what it means for Claris, the developer community and ultimately its customers. At first glance, there doesn't appear to be all that much that is new. But, a closer look reveals a version that is about to revolutionize the…
This episode is brought to you and completely about FMPerception. Dave Ramsey is found at on Twitter. We also wrote about FMPerception's latest features here.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
In Part 1, we discussed all of the tools within FileMaker itself. In Part 2, we discuss many of the external tools that are available to all developers to help their efforts. It's a fascinating discussion and we almost guarantee that you'll discover new tools that may well become essential to you and your work.…
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FileMaker 19 is here! A Discussion with Todd
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Today's episode is brought to you by FMPerception, which is ready for FileMaker 19! Todd writes up his thoughts about this new open platform. Check those out here.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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FileMaker Origin Stories, Ep 3: Bryn and Jason C and Lisette
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Jason Creager is of Geist Interactive. Lisette Wilson is the CEO of Informing Designs. Bryn Behrenshausen works in-house and is in the Claris Community.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
Matt & Matt get on the horn just to gab about FileMaker again. This time they play the game "Have You Used It?" when considering the various functions and scripts steps. As always, they venture into other topics related to the FileMaker platform.By Matt Navarre and Matt Petrowsky
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E027 – FileMaker Get… not Get() Functions.
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After a brief comparison of the Delete Record menu option and the Delete Record script step we review all of the FileMaker Functions that start with Get…, not Get().By Thomas Mokwa
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FileMaker Origin Stories: Ep 2: Sarah and Barb L and Dave G
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Today's origin stories comes from: Sarah Stickfort Barb Levine Dave Graham We mention the WITFm Claris Engage Scholarship Sarah is working on integrating Dayback and LedgerLink together Dave's working on learning JavaScript and our API First mentality.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
In this two part podcast, John Mark & I, are once again joined by Marc Larochelle (CEO of Productive Computing) for a discussion about the tools that are available to FileMaker developers at all levels. This part mostly covers the internal tools and options that are available inside of FileMaker and in Part 2, we'll be discussing some of the extern…
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FileMaker Origin Stories: Cris and Erika and Sully
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Here's a list of what we talked about: Cris Ippolite of iSolutions 42 Silicon Valley Dave SullivanBy Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
Send an email to info@geistinteractive.com to set up a time to share your origin story. Ping Jeremy via Twitter to set up an interview time.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
Here's some things we talked about in the episode: Concepts of FileMaker The first JavaScript article I read by Mike Duncan The Web Viewer Integrations file I wrote many years ago, and my current writing on JavaScript. The Claris Community including FileMaker Today, FMForums, FMSoup. Say hi to Jeremy on Twitter. Josh Ormond is also on Twitter.…
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Part 2
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This episode is a continuation of our examination of the 179 script steps in FileMaker 18. We talk about the ones you should know intimately, the ones that you need to be aware of and use occasionally and finally the ones that you should never, under any circumstances use. As always, we'd love to hear your comments so please email us at info@firesi…
Matt Navarre speaks with Scott Love about vertical software, the 42 Silicon Valley intern program, Pause on Error in Mexico, career changes, and more.By Matt Navarre and Matt Petrowsky
Matt and Matt walk through some FileMaker scenarios and end up debating about feature implementations and the future of the FileMaker platform.By Matt Navarre and Matt Petrowsky
Mark Baum can be reached at mbaum@soliantconsulting.com and in the Claris Community. Jonn Howell runs a Presentation Coaching Meet up. Mark's FileMaker DevCon 2019 session, of which we raved about the demo file, can be found here. Check that out.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown
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Claris Connect, Infrastructure costs & cruft management
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Matt & Matt talk about the new Claris product Claris Connect, the cost of infrastructure and how to deal with design and development cruft.By Matt Navarre and Matt Petrowsky
In this episode, John Mark and I discuss all the 179 script steps in FileMaker 18. We tell you which ones you should know intimately and which ones you should avoid using. It's a lengthy topic and this is Part 1 of 2 parts;' the second part will be released on April 23. A mea culpa from Michael Rocharde. Apologies to all our listeners for the long …
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The Claris COVID-19 Response Team Discussion
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Claris International put out a blog post describing their response. join::table also described their joint initiative. Use Social Media to reach out to folks who are fighting this pandemic on the front lines. Reach out to people you know and let them know the Claris community is available for them.By Todd Geist, Jeremy Brown