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Account Manager (Sydney)

by Stuart Woodhouse

We love putting technology to work, creating unique solutions tailored to the needs of creative, forward thinking businesses. We need someone out front waving the flag and helping inspire those in need to take the plunge!! Read more

Xero Makes It Big In Australia

by Stuart Woodhouse

Earlier this month we saw the results of Xero's continued growth, particularly the increase in users in Australia. With a growth rate of 219% for the year, we are starting to see that businesses in Australia are really getting behind the products (32% of all users are Australian based). Read more

Team DF Goes to Webbywood

by Stuart Woodhouse & Sam Sehnert

Looking very much like the Partridge Family (except there was one girl and eight boys), the family of DF'ers descended on Wellington for the annual Webstock conference. For the uninitiated, Webstock is two days of inspirational and thought provoking talks from some world-class industry minds. There's unlimited espresso coffee, plenty of ice cream and a specially-brewed Webstock beer that was served up for afternoon tea. Although this might sound like a holiday, there were plenty of serious topics to cover. Read more

TeamDF Explore IT

by Julie McLeod

Last night the cream of Digital Fusion manned their station at the Explore IT industry event put on by the folk at Lincoln University Read more

Web Designer Wanted

by Julie McLeod

After 5 years our web designer Mat, is leaving us… we're pretty cut up about it, but the show must go on. Silver linings means there's an opportunity for a new Mat (open to other names as well) to work with our web team designing web and mobile interfaces for business solutions. Read more

Daniel 'Mad Dog' Wood

by Mat Wiseman

Our very own Daniel Wood has just been awarded the coveted Mad Dog PR Award at FileMaker DevCon 2012. The award recognises developers who have made a significant contribution to advancing the awareness of FileMaker in the media and community. Read more

Winter Has Arrived!

by Craig Saunders

Winter has arrived with a vengeance here in Christchurch, and while some staff are working from home Phil was so excited he moved his desk to get himself a window seat where he can watch the pretty snow flakes while he works...
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Free FileMaker 12 Seminars

by Mat Wiseman

FileMaker is offering free seminars in Sydney, Melbourne, and Auckland to showcase FileMaker 12. These seminars will be presented by Andrew LeCates, Director of the Systems Engineering team in North America. Read more

FileMaker 12: What's New?

by Wendy Wethey

We're all buzzing about the new version of FileMaker that has just been released. There are all sorts of goodies for you as users and us as developers (and there are a few gotchas you should be aware of too). Read more

FileMaker 12: Better, Faster, Stronger...

by Craig Saunders

We're rapt to see the new version of FileMaker released, a major release covering all 3 aspects of the FileMaker suite (FileMaker Pro, Server and Go) in one hit, and bringing a raft of new features along with speed and robustness improvements... all very good stuff, so here's a few highlights and what they'll mean for you. Read more

In The Press

by Mat Wiseman

We were recently featured in The Press. Craig and Julie sat down with Tamlyn Stewart to discuss our custom-based approach to development and our desire to get into the Australian market. Read more

Webstock Weekend

by Mat Wiseman

We're heading back to Webstock again for another dose of HTML, CSS, mobile app development, user experience, and all things web related. Read more

Systems Administrator

by Julie McLeod

We need help - we're after a super-organised Systems Administrator. This role could suit a fresh graduate or someone with a bit more experience, but you have to be passionate about technology. Read more

FileMaker Go

by Daniel Wood

Do you use a FileMaker database in your business? If so, then you may be interested to know that FileMaker have a mobile version for the iPad and iPhone called FileMaker Go Read more

Quake Updates Go Mobile

by Julie McLeod

By day, Steve is a database developer, quietly dealing to some of our most tricky database integrations, but by night, under the cover of darkness he's banging out some very sexy iPhone/iPad apps. His latest creation is "Canterbury Earthquakes". Read more

Just when we thought we had things under control...

by Julie and Craig

Bam! Another couple of decent shakes and I think it’s fair to say our confidence has taken a bit of a knock. This time however, our servers and workstations weren’t in the red zone and most importantly no-one was seriously hurt. We learnt a thing or two from the events on Feb 22nd, and for the most part we're back to business as usual. Read more

June 13 aftershocks

All Digital Fusion staff are safe and sound after 2 more big earthquakes today - a 5.5 and 6.0, shallow and close to the city. Aside from rattled nerves, a loss of power and some broken glassware we're fine. Read more

Fuse: Earthquake Edition

by Julie Mcleod

On Tuesday the 22nd of February at 12.51pm a horrific earthquake ripped through Christchurch leaving destruction and devastation in its path. For those that haven't visited our offices, they're located in the heart of the worst affected area. Read more

Webstock and the infamous DF Web Summit

We're just back from 4 days of pure 100% Web thinking, consisting of the world famous Webstock held in Wellington NZ, followed by the not so famous Digital Fusion Web Summit... Read more

FileMaker Weetbicks Arrives

Digital Fusion is proud to announce the arrival of FileMaker Weetbicks. This is our gift back to the FileMaker community, and is where we will be publishing FileMaker related tips, techniques and example files, for users and devlopers alike. Read more

iPad is Go

by Craig Saunders

We've just built our first solution for the iPad, a "Farm Diary" which allows a farmer to work from a map of the farm... Read more

GST Help

We have a GST Task Force at hand should you have any issues with the change-over effective from Oct 1st. Read more

We're Open!

It’s business as usual at Digital Fusion which has survived the earthquake without any major damage. Thanks to family, friends and customers who have sent their well wishes over the past few days. Read more

Christchurch Office Status

Further big shakes today mean the Christchurch CBD is closed off again and buildings are being re-inspected. Most of us are working from home now, but for urgent matters phone Craig on 021 40 98 98. Read more

Shaken, not Stirred

Thank you for all your support after Christchurch's earthquake. Thankfully all Digital Fusion staff have come through unscathed with very little damage to their properties. The offices needed a big tidy up but no serious damage there either thankfully: we've been lucky but we feel for those who were not so fortunate. Read more

FileMaker 11 Released

Continuing the onward and upward march was the recent release of FileMaker 11, featuring some very nice charting capabilities, and a raft of developer and user improvements. Read more