by Agnes Riley - May 15, 2012, filed under: Advanced, Beginner, General
As you may know by now FileMaker 12 is out. A lot of articles have been written about the various features, so I’m not going to bore you with that. FileMaker 12 for iOS is free, so if you haven’t grabbed a copy, go get it. It comes with some demo files to play with [...]
by Agnes Riley - April 5, 2012, filed under: General
I wish I could write about FileMaker 12 (which I will, soon) but there’s a more eminent issue right now: there’s apparently a new trojan out there attacking our Macs. When I read something like this, I generally just ignore it (because I have not seen a virus, malware or trojan for Mac OS X), but I [...]
by Agnes Riley - March 29, 2012, filed under: General
Another great session at Essex Computer in Paramus. We had the pleasure of having Todd Geist from Geist Interactive remotely demoing GoDraw. Todd always blows me away. He is unbelievably smart with a keen eye to design producing highly, sought-after solutions for FileMaker, such as telephony integration or GoSign to name a couple. The brand [...]
by Agnes Riley - March 26, 2012, filed under: General
Everyone I know is familiar with Microsoft Excel to some extent. Some people are more well-versed than others and can do complex data management. Not long ago I met with a consulting company who is working with one of the largest companies in the country to install hardware nation-wide. The original process is so cumbersome [...]
by Agnes Riley - March 18, 2012, filed under: General
We can all agree on one thing: Apple knows design. The reason why Apple’s design is excellent is because it’s minimalistic and draws the users’ eyes to what needs to be seen and hides the rest. A perfect example is the aluminum keyboard: size: as small as physically possible for average fingers to type on; [...]
by Agnes Riley - February 15, 2012, filed under: General
What is a consultant and why do I care about how to hire them? Good questions! First of all, here’s the dictionary reference for the word consultant: con•sul•tant |kənˈsəltnt| noun a person who provides expert advice professionally. Now why would you want to spend time reading this article instead of just hopping on the phone [...]
by Agnes Riley - September 7, 2011, filed under: Beginner, General
One of my clients called this week and told me his logo got inverted when printing to a PDF. Also, the PDF file size doubled. Previously it did not occur to me to check the file he received from his designer, because I wrongfully assumed the designer gave him the appropriate file. But this brings [...]
by Agnes Riley - July 25, 2011, filed under: General
Bluetooth Barcode Scanners Have you seen one of these square garbled-looking images before? You may have seen them on a subway poster or at an airline boarding pass or on mailers. This article will give you a little background on what they are and how they can be useful to you and your company. What [...]
by Agnes Riley - May 11, 2011, filed under: General
Software development life cycles are well understood in the industry. However, most of our clients are from fields completely unrelated to software production. With this article I aim to give the prospective client a little insight into how the process works and why we charge for creating an estimate. I have some friends who are [...]
by Agnes Riley - May 2, 2011, filed under: Beginner, General
All FileMaker developers start somewhere, and that place is definitely not being a certified independent developer. I started by being an in-house developer. Working in a busy environment, all you have time for is cranking out the features that your boss needs, right away. Nobody has time to think about consequences. My job was to get [...]
