Back in 2014 we wrote our most popular article to date about integrating FileMaker with the online email service Mandrill. Recently, Mandrill have announced that they are ceasing their free service and are turning it into a Mailchimp add-on service that will cost a fee.

In this article we detail how you can switch to using SparkPost, a free mail service that is the preferred alternative to Mandrill (even Mandrill themselves recommend it!) We provide a demo file and information on how you can easily make the switch, along with some important things you need to know along the way.

Time flies doesn't it? In February 1996 I took the plunge and left a perfectly good salaried job to go and ‘do my own thing’...

10 Feb 2016—FileMaker Inc have published a very well put together "How to" guide for designing and building business apps with FileMaker.

A few weeks back Apple announced the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil which is both big in size but also processing power. At the point of this writing, we're still a few weeks away from seeing these in in-store but we've been thinking about just how good these super-sized iPads might be for business applications...

New in FileMaker 14 is the automatic “reconnect to server” feature which I particularly love. But there are some catches to getting it to work nicely, and things you can do to make the most of it.  In this article we cover it in depth and outline some limitations and possible workarounds.