Thursday, April 4th, Jeremiah Hammond, Senior Technical Project Lead at DB Services will present, Working on a Live FileMaker System. Learn how to successfully manage and update a FileMaker database in production and how to release updates. Jeremiah will discuss real world challenges when working with a Call Center FileMaker database with over a hundred users that required 24/7/365 up time. Learn what you can safely do and things to avoid whether in a high transaction database system or one with just a few users.
Topics will Include
-Live Development vs Offline Development
-Setting Up Development Files
-Porting Code and Schema
-Preventing Table Locking and more
*Jersey Mike Subs and drinks will be provided by DB Services.
Thank you all for coming and a special thanks to Jesse for making the trip.
Thursday December 13th, Molly Connolly of Thorsen Consulting, a Chicago-based FileMaker developer, will be coming to talk with us about training programs and development techniques to stay on top of your game.
We will discuss various options and resources for keeping your chops up and bringing other developers or power-users up to speed. In addition, we will also discuss the unique challenges (both from a business and technical perspective) on working on live systems, highlighting agile techniques for Chicago Public Schools.
FileMaker Product Conference Audio Recordings
All attendees can enter the drawing of the the 2012 FileMaker Product Conference audio recordings which was hosted by Molly in Chicago. A wealth of knowledge will be in these recordings about managing products built in FileMaker for a target market.
Upcoming IFDG Topics
At each meeting bring your topics and we will vote at the end of the meeting for the topic next month. Some carrying over topics for future meetings include: FileMaker Integration, Design Caucus for User Interface, Building Unbreakable FileMaker Code, Custom Web Publishing, Scripting, Web Viewer Uses, BaseElements, FileMaker Go Synchronization. Note: We will not be meeting January 3rd due to the holidays.
Coming in March, Jesse Barnum, 360Works
On Thursday March 7th, Jesse Barnum from 360Works will be visiting and presenting MirrorSync and discussing other products from 360Works.
Recap Last Meeting, FileMaker 12 Roadshow
Thank you all for coming to our great kickoff meeting with Bill Heizer and FileMaker Senior Director Stephen Gallagher from FileMaker presenting. With over 40 people we were just under fire code!
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