Kevin McAllister kicks off inRESONANCE University Spring 2011 with a talk about why “the Cloud” is not ready for you (meaning schools).
Kevin discusses the advantages and drawbacks of moving your data to the Cloud and makes some convincing arguments that, right now, moving a school’s data to the...
In the next two weeks, I get to be at two very different conferences inRESONANCE University and Google I/O.
At #irU, I will be building my FileMaker skills, and at #io2011, I will be building my Google Web Toolkit (GWT) skills (among other things).
I will be posting/tweeting from both events...
“The beauty is that you don’t have to assemble this stuff. Now, if you just click, there it is!”
–Kevin McAllister on PORTAL and Reenrollment
Winner:
“My IT guy would be so proud of me!”
–a participant in Paul Borneo’s Layout Tips & Tricks
Runner up:
“Manual? There’s no manual, it’s Open Source!”
–a DevCamp participant
Cathy Rudolph explains how to reference variables in a simple and straight forward way.
Brian Hollis explains GENERATIONS, inRESONANCE’s Fundraising and Development solution. Covering concepts as diverse as Soft Credits, Fiscal Years, and Batch Numbers, Brian makes complex concepts simple.
Most of my experience with GENERATIONS comes from coding Generations Web Services (GWS). GW...
Integrating jQuery into a web page optimized for the iPad to make it feel like a native application! Vlad and Tessie are completely geeking out!
Deep deep thoughts… You can smell the synapses burning in this room!
“Before you just dive in and start coding,” says Charlie, “I’m going to encourage you NOT to open FileMaker for the next hour. What are all the features? What are all the things its going to need to do?”
DevCamp is really a kind of BarCamp focused on Open FileMaker. Charlie Bailey, CIO of i...
The Excel Test:
“If you wanted to make up tee-shirts as gifts for people coming to an event at your organization, and you export the data into Excel, add a column called TeeShirt, and… (laughter from the audience) Do you see where this is going? Yeah, if you’re going down this path, you’ve missed...
Our CEO, Kevin McAllister, addressing everyone about when technologies make sense and when they don’t. I’ve heard Kevin give this talk before, and it always makes me think. He has a clear take on the difference between throwing money at a problem and wondering why it isn’t fixed and spending wisel...
From iR Knowledge Base – iR DevCamp Announce:
Think of it: three days and nights in Northampton with some of the best minds in the independent school universe of FileMaker developers. Code sprints. Opening gambits. How to FINISH! Take three days to move projects from the drawing board to the c...
