Who doesn't love a good hackathon? Unite Hacks, a 12-hour, student-led, in-person hackathon is happening this weekend in Oakland, CA. We can't wait to see what these talented developers can build.View the full article
Originally presented at Beezwax's internal Developer Show and Share meeting, this video presentation covers "GitOps with GitHub Actions" by Victor Olivo, Beezwax DevOps Engineer.View the full article
Have you ever opened an existing solution, took one look at the source code - and your eyes just glazed over - as if you were attempting to decipher the Matrix? You’ve entered the world of DX, or “Developer Experience”. Consider these Design Patterns for your next solution, with the audience beyond the UX, to also include the DX.View the full article
At Rome FileMaker® Week (Oct. 6-8), Vince Menanno and Fabio Bosisio from Beezwax present three sessions:
• Local FileMaker Development with Docker and Node-RED
• The New Horizon: Native Script Transactions in FileMaker
• ChatbotView the full article
La 7e Conférence québécoise des développeurs FileMaker (CQDF) 2022: les 15 et 16 Septembre 2022 à l’Auberge Saint-Gabriel. Vincenzo Menanno, Beezwax, présente "Le nouvel horizon | Transactions de script natif" avec Claris (FileMaker) Pro.View the full article
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) highlights new ways for developers to build with APIs, introducing updates to Swift™ and Safari, revealing improvements in accessibility, and uncovering a mountain of innovative product upgrades and releases. We're sharing a summary of news we've collected from WWDC 2022 sessions, as a series of updates to this blog post.View the full article
Beezwax’s Tableau development and data analytics team has grown rapidly in recent years. In 2021, we achieved the status of Tableau Services Partner, and we’re proud to highlight several Beez — Josh, Sarah and Jules — who have earned Tableau certifications. Josh, and Jules were each certified as Tableau Desktop Certified Associate, and Sarah earned […]View the full article
Vince Menanno's presentation at AutoEnter Live on using Tableau with Claris FileMaker, opening new possibilities as the two platforms work as one.View the full article
Jinal Shah is a UX Designer at Beezwax. She shared the process for implementing a design system, based on Atomic Design principles, that could quickly generate variations of Google Display ads in multiple sizes, optimizing collaboration between Design and Marketing teams.View the full article
As Claris gets further into an Agile groove, there are product releases more often, always with new features and improvements. FileMaker 19.5 is no exception. It includes many new features, but I wanted to bring attention to one simple thing that will make a world of change for many of us in the FileMaker developer community: Save a Copy as XML on FileMaker Server.View the full article
BERLIN, Germany – Our senior developer Christos Savva attended the dotfmp.berlin 2022 “Unconference” held in June in Berlin. The conference was the first in-person opportunity in over two years for leading Claris FileMaker developers across Europe to meet, share their work, and explore what’s happening in the developer community. At dotfmp.berlin 2022, more than 70 […]View the full article
We are pleased to release bBox version 0.99, with with new NodeJS integration, Python 3 support, and M1 Apple silicon support for GraphicsMagick and JQ functions.View the full article
We finished three days of Tableau Conference 2022 (TC22) in sunny Las Vegas! The in-person and virtual attendees from Beezwax’s Data Analytics & Tableau development teams shared a few more highlights of TC22 sessions, with information, insights and a few key takeaways. Read our Day 1 TC22 session highlights here. Read our Day 2 session […]View the full article
Hello again from the end of Day 2 at Tableau Conference 2022 (TC22) in sunny Las Vegas! The in-person and virtual attendees from Beezwax’s Data Analytics & Tableau development teams shared more highlights of TC22 sessions, with information, insights and a few key takeaways. Read Day 1 session and conference highlights here. Read Day 3 […]View the full article
Hello from Tableau Conference 2022 (TC22)! Beezwax's Tableau/Analytics team attended in-person and virtually, and here we focus on highlights from the range of TC22 sessions.View the full article
As developers, creative ideation is critical. With that in mind, here are 5 unique Custom Functions (courtesy of Christopher Edwards, that are potentially !useful for FileMaker developers. We built some of these for very specific, and oddly niche, use cases, such as this blog post. Happy Day!View the full article
As developers, creative ideation is critical. With that in mind, here are 5 unique Custom Functions (courtesy of Christopher Edwards, that are potentially !useful for FileMaker developers. We built some of these for very specific, and oddly niche, use cases, such as this blog post. Happy Day!View the full article
Let’s talk about Claris Connect as the way to orchestrate data-driven workflows involving Eversign digital signatures, Claris FileMaker, Slack and a range of other possible platforms! Fabio Bosisio from Beezwax will walk through details for setting up these types of integrations. Eversign (and FileMaker) integration with Claris Connect Event link: https://www.meetup.com/claris-connect-meetup/events/283713457/Speaker: Fabio Bosisio, Beezwax DatatoolsDate: […]View the full article
Software changes over time. Your company's web site this year does things you had no idea you needed two years ago. How can we keep the cost of change manageable? Automated testing is one way. Especially for large software projects, the practice of automated testing reduces the cost of adapting software to new business necessities.View the full article
26 years in, a founding Bee reflects Julian Nadel is president and founder of Beezwax. He’s celebrating the 26th Anniversary of Beezwax with this update to his original Beezwax Blog post. In 2014, a colleague interviewed me about Beezwax; the interview transcript was the orginal basis for the article herein. It was then and still […]View the full article
Beezwax Recognized for Advocacy Excellence, Sharing Expertise and Passion with Customers and Developers In the Claris Community CUPERTINO, Calif. – Dec. 15, 2021 – Claris International Inc., an Apple company, named Beezwax Datatools Inc. as winner of the Advocacy Excellence Award as part of the Claris Excellence Awards for 2021, which honor Claris Partners and […]View the full article
This won't be a detailed post on every possible topic on object-oriented programming and testing, there are many books about that already. Instead, this will cover basics of testing, so you understand how and why we test, and you can adapt it to your own needs.View the full article
Building a custom Tableau® Connector for Claris® FileMaker® enables faster, more reliable and more flexible connections between Tableau and FileMaker datasources, compared with the legacy Web Data Connector. For a number of Beezwax client projects, we’ve installed and deployed a Tableau Connector (aka “TACO”) for FileMaker. The TACO was built using the Tableau Connector SDK […]View the full article
Let’s talk about Claris FileMaker and transactions! Join Vincenzo Menanno to discuss what transactions are, how they relate to FileMaker data operations (creating, updating, and deleting records), database normalization, and how to use transactional concepts to improve FileMaker performance, especially over a wide area network (WAN). This is a live, virtual event as part of […]View the full article
