#todd geist

API Generator – Geist Interactive

API Generator Software Todd Geist released a new, free FileMaker example file that makes it as easy as is possible to work with web API’s.  Geist’s new program, Generator, makes it easy to build a and test an API request, then copy the custom functions and scripts to your FileMaker solution with just a click of a button. The first version of Generator focuses on working with JSON files, but…

Making Software, Texting and FileMaker, Moving FileMaker Code

You can make software if you choose to Seth Godin with a great post on the virtues of making software: You can make software if you choose to. Not just the expected version of software that runs on a computer, but the metaphorical idea of rules and algorithms designed to solve problems and connect people… Apple started as a hardware company with the Apple II. Soon in, they realized that while…

FileMaker Developer Interview – Todd Geist–YouTube

FileMaker Developer Interviews – Todd Geist Sit down and get ready to learn about one of the FileMaker Community’s more resourceful members, Todd Geist of Geist Interactive.  Geist is the definition of busy, with a new product release–FM Perceptions–and two presentations at DevCon2016. Todd is very personable, contributes plenty to the FileMaker community, and started, with his wife, a great…

Integrating JavaScript and FileMaker

Integrating JavaScript and FileMaker If you are like me, the thought of learning the particulars of another language and integrating it with FileMaker probably makes you think “I don’t have the time”. Make Time And start by watching Todd Geist’s DevCon presentation: “Javascript is Eating the World”. Geist walks you through the history of Javascript, including: There is no relation between Java…

FMPerception, a FileMaker Database Analysis Tool Matt Petrowsky’s 44 minute tutorial on FMPerception, the latest and, in his opinion, the best tool for analyzing a FileMaker database. This tool uses the XML version of the Database Design Report (DDR) generated by FileMaker Pro Advanced to provide you with a fast, easily searchable…

Make FileMaker Apps for Apple’s App Store

Richard Carlton invited Todd Geist to the FMPUG Without Borders User Group Meeting last month and dug into the topic of how to make FileMaker Apps with the new FileMaker iOS App SDK. For those considering making an app, the first 1o minutes or so of this video are enlightening.  The whole video is worth watching, but the later parts might be more interesting for the technical minded (you know,…

FileMaker Selector Connector: The Basics – SeedCode

We’ve all heard of the Selector-Connector model, but how many could list the benefits clearly and succinctly?  And move from there to actual implementation?  It’s said a person never understands a subject completely until he is able to easily teach it to others. Jason Young, of Seedcode, explains it completely and thoroughly in his latest post, taking the reader through the creation process from…

FileMaker Session Model Video – geist interactive

  If you aren’t familiar with the session model in FileMaker, this blog post and video by Todd Geist is a great introduction (one more bonus:  he integrates the Selector model into the session model in this video).

The session model is all about tightly controlling the data and views displayed to the end user.  It does this by adding a Table Occurrence (T.O.) in front of all the other T.O.’s,…