REMINDER: User Group Meeting tonight – we may be uStreaming this

Just a reminder that we’re meeting tonight at 6PM.  If I can get this windows LifeCam VX6000 to work with Parallels, we’ll be uStreaming the meeting.  I’ll post a link later if things work out.

Hope to see you tonight. – Colin

Announcement Highlights

- 2nd Semiannual Design Critique and Discussion July 28

— Dan Stein and Loreli Voltmer present

— Stump the Chump experts

- News: FREE FileMaker 1/2 Day Seminar August 6: Better Data, Better Decisions with FileMaker

- About the Philadelphia FileMaker User Group

PauseOnError Day 1

My wife, 3 year old son and I hopped in the car at 6:30 this morning and headed north from Philly to NYC.  I was headed to PauseOnError; Andi and Sam were going to hang with our Brooklyn friends, some of whom we hadn’t seen since we moved from Brooklyn in 2007.

I arrived at the Ace Hotel – a gorgeous, hipsterish old/new world style hotel on 29th street – close to 9 AM and squeezed into the crowd in Molly Connolly’s room for the intro session.  I then spent the better part of the day hopping around the various sessions and talking.  The mood was pretty festive and congenial, like partying with a bunch of geniuses.

Thanks to ProofGroup! 3/24 Meeting Recap

We had 18 people out here Tuesday, including a couple of new faces, to hear Ernest Koe discuss ProofGroup‘s fmSpark and ninjaCal products.  I have to say personally I was very impressed with the quality of the products and especially the elegance of the underlying code.  These products are a bargain just for the education they provide when you get under the hood.  

They’re also great examples of modular, portable code.

New Authors…

Just a quick introductory post:

You’re going to see new authors crop up here from time to time, to post tips and tricks, thoughts on FileMaker, or ruminations on the state of software generally.  This is part of my push to expand the usefulness of the User Group beyond the the actual face-to-face meetings themselves.  We’ll be rolling in new contributors slowly, so you don’t need to pop in here every day – but know that going forward, not every post here will be a meeting announcement.

With that preamble over, I’d like to introduce Chad Sager.

Chad’s a lead FileMaker developer here at IT Solutions Consulting who’s been at the forefront in our office in terms of exploring the new possibilities that FileMaker 10 features offer us – new coding practices, old coding practices that can be retired, tricks and cool stuff generally.

He’s the second act at tomorrow’s meeting too, following up after Matt O’Dell.