NOTE: we are expecting nearly 80 100 110 people. We cannot all fit in one room. It is GOOD to have overlapping sessions. There are plenty of slots open. If you are considering hosting one, please do. Session creators, please consider offering your session more than once. We'll likely have most of these sessions in one of the three or four suites we've reserved, so you don't *have* to do your session in your own room. Though if you want to, go for it.
One of the roles of the Pause Steering Committee is to "curate" the session schedule so that we all get to enjoy the best possible unconference. We'll probably come back here and adjust the timing of things and assign rooms once we get closer to January. We'll do our best to keep you in the loop of any changes.
Thursday |
Room 414: Sindelar's Suite |
Room 404: EK/Proof Suite |
Room 412: Navarre's Suite |
Room 400: |
Elsewhere |
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All Day 8am - 5pm |
Suite 200
Come to Court Bowman's Suite to check out changes to the schedule, ask questions, or just relax and... |
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Blue Collar Labor: FileMaker Testing and Implementation
Open forum to talk about testing and implementation best practices.
Host: Gerald Chang, Eight² Video: http://bit.ly/9DxD46 |
Data Integrity And Transactions
Host: Danny Mack
You think that your users' data is reliably being written to the server... and, in the worst case, you can safely revert to backups... this may or may not be true. |
Symphony|Database
Host: Matt Navarre Video: http://bit.ly/9sDqOH |
Party model, General vs. Specific models
Demonstration and discussion of techniques that...
Host: Dave Graham Bit Tailor, LLC |
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Continued discussion and strategies for Development, QA, and Production approach to development.
Host: Vincenzo Video: bit.ly/bosvUN |
FileMaker MVC Video: http://bit.ly/c8Vzlx |
See the guts of this cool search tool and learn how to adapt it to your solution. What search problems does it solve, and what was the author thinking?
Host: Matt Navarre Video: bit.ly/chBH6H |
HTML Reporting Combine scripting and calculation techniques to display HTML reports in web viewer or browser: covers dynamic design, content and columns. Host: Lance Hallberg |
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| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
Project Management: Reality or Snake Oil?
Poss continuing in Gerald's room after 2pm
Host: Gerald Chang, Eight² |
Google Mapping in FileMaker, a Study of Techniques
Explore different techniques for bringing Google Mapping into FileMaker solutions.
Host: Micah Woods and Mike Lee Video: bit.ly/chz7Zx |
Value Pricing - Part 1: Not Just for Sole Proprietors
At DevCon 2009 I participated in a business panel discussion as an advocate for hourly billing. Since then I researched value-based billing and found it to be superior in...
Host: Kirk Bowman, MightyData Video:http://bit.ly/c8Vzlx |
Do you use the separation model, but still use globals and calc fields to present your dynamic interface? Let's explore how to de-couple the interface from the schema and end up with a more flexible, extensible presentation layer...
Host: Caleb Ruth, Data Performance LLC
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This will be an open discussion of different techniques used for passing parameters to scripts and instantiating variables based on those parameters. Audience participation will be encouraged.
Host: Darren Terry, PDM |
This will be a fast-paced session for intermediate and advanced developers, showcasing a variety of tips, tricks... Host: Kevin Frank |
Global Variable Domination
Simply taking a walk through one of my most recent solutions (happens to be Theme Library 4 - no pitch here) and showcase the various ways I use Global variables to make a really trim solution with a lot of advantages.
Host: Matt Petrowsky Video: http://bit.ly/bYBZod |
Comparing the performance of common FileMaker operations. Discover the methods to give your clients the optimal user experience.
Host: Jason Young |
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| 3:45pm -5pm |
was: Design Decisions. now: the difficulty of managing FileMaker developers, sharing code, and productivity.
Host: John Sindelar |
Inventory-based manufacturing systems.
Unique ID nomenclature.
Host: Steve Gerow Video: http://bit.ly/awm1GW |
Automated testing for Filemaker?
We'll review an approach to scripting that supports automated testing, look at its pros and cons, and...
Host: Allen Poole |
Phone Solutions including Voice Over IP
I'll go over the known options for making calls from FileMaker with the use of VOIP.
Host: Agnes Riley |
Round Table Discussion Host: Kevin Frank Location: TBA |
| Pause for Drinks |
Drinks: Clyde Common
Cancelled: Instrumental-only, musician-only jam session Location: Matt Navarre's house |
Chocolate Tasting Festival: with Jimmy Jones [Howell's Suite] 7:00 p.m. |
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Friday |
Room 414: Sindelar's Suite |
Room 404: EK / Proof's suite |
Room 412: Navarre's Suite |
Room 400: Howell's Suite |
Elsewhere |
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All Day 8am - 5pm |
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Come to Court Bowman's Suite to check out changes to the schedule, ask questions, or just relax and... |
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A demonstration and discussion of the dcTypedDictionnary functions that were briefly talked about during the Parameter Pandamonium session. Typed is the key word here, as in data typed…
Host: David Lalonde |
Lessons learned in building products
I will share and discuss the 11 lessons we have learned in building products, and how they differ from custom software, as well as how they have shaped our newest product focusing on data synchronization.
Host: Court Bowman |
Gettin' Groovy with ScriptMaster
FileMaker is a cool tool - no doubt. However, you can only go so far with FMP. When you really need to exercise some power, the world of Java/Groovy opens up far more than you could ever imagine...
Host: Matt Petrowsky |
Using a real-world example of a particularly challenging categorization task, we'll look at data-layer...
Host: Allen Poole
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| 10:15 am-11:30 |
Let's get together to review some in-depth demos that we didn't have time to cover in yesterday's session. Advanced CRM topics, etc...
Host Dave Graham Bit Tailor, LLC. |
Experiences in teaching FileMaker centric software practices, development standards, conventions, training developers for collaboration. Wins and losses, building community.
Host: Jonn Howell / Laramie Ericson |
Creative people always want FileMaker to do MORE! But we're not very patient so when we need to extend the power of FileMaker we make our plugins...
Host: Jesse Barnum & Sam Barnum Video: http://bit.ly/cIRe0X |
Charting & Dashboards! Sure, graphs & gauges are cool, but...
Cohosts: Lee Lukehart, SavvyData Chuck Melton, Anvil Dataworks |
At times, we need to take localization issues into consideration during development. Let's discuss techniques we use to deal with these issues, and how we think FileMaker Pro could deal with them...
Host: David Lalonde Location: 202 or 200 |
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| 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
Finding lots of work in good times (& bad)
Host: David Knight
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Applescript can add powerful features to Filemaker. We will explore and demonstrate a wide range of methods, some simple, some...
Host: Bruce Robertson |
Fun with FM Search Results I am going to show a few ways that I have Use FMSR to do things like search for duplicates while a record is being made as well as using it for value lists and the like.
Host: Oreste Schiavone
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In this session we'll go over different ways to get your solutions out there. From Citrix, Terminal Services, Hosting providers, using installers...
Host: Angelo Luchi, The Drooling Dog |
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| 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm |
FileMaker: Design Patterns Work Group
Design patterns have prooven to be a powerful idea for both interface and code design (Model View Controller is one example of such a pattern. See the FileMaker MVC session above for more info.) ...
Host: Don Levan
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FileMaker Interface: Extreme Makeover Edition
Guess what? You don't have to have a degree in Graphic Design to create beautiful, intuitive interfaces for your clients.
Host: Deborah Norton, Fiddlehead Software |
FileMaker Talk: live podcast recording
Most conventions have a live podcast recording somewhere in the mix. This is ours. The panel discussion will mainly be geeky FileMaker issues, taking live questions from the studio audience.
Hosts: Matt Navarre and Matt Petrowsky |
Error Capture Techniques and Modular Scripts
A new technique in error capture, use less screen space while expanding functionality of your error capture. Also, a meaty modular script explained. Walk away with code you can use again and again.
Host: Lauren Kuhlman |
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| 3:45pm -5pm |
Introduction to Mac & iPhone Programming for FileMaker Developers
FileMaker development prepares one quite nicely for doing iPhone & Mac app development...
Host: Don Levan |
Value Based Billing: Part 2 The Project: How to determine what your client _really_ wants.
Host: Colleen Hammersley Video: http://bit.ly/bcw3Sd |
Yes we'll throw in the obligatory killer keyboard shortcuts, but we'll also look at useful third-party tools, interesting services, and cool FileMaker techniques.
Host: Tom Fitch |
Let's talk about user groups and how to best facilitate them, what the community needs and the wealth of...
Host: Audrey Akhavan |
Informal session Host: Kevin Frank Location: TBA |
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Wrap Party
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Wrap Party | Wrap Party | Wrap Party | Pause for Drinks: Clyde Common |