Mike Beargie has been with MainSpring since 2013 and has over 10 years of application development experience. As a developer, he creates solutions for clients in a wide variety of sectors across the U.S. and abroad. Prior to working at MainSpring, Mike worked as the lead developer for a consulting company, serving high profile political, special interest and nonprofit clients in the Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio, markets. Mike regularly presents solutions and best practices to the FileMaker development community around the country, and is well known as an answer man online as well. In 2014 and 2016, Mike was recognized with the FileMaker Excellence Award for community contributions. Mike is a man of many hobbies, including woodworking, home brewing, art and music.
GetContainerAttribute() is a handy new function available in FileMaker 13. It allows us to get a lot of the metadata from files that we put into our containers, to assist with creating new, container...
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Read MoreA while ago I came across the Android Developer Design Principles document. I try to keep some of these guidelines in mind when developing new user interfaces, so when I saw the slide control feature...
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Read MoreFileMaker 13 made a large push into the single page application idea. In the Web world, this is an ideal way to build an application, as your user (and their data) is all done with the interaction on...
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Read MoreWith the release of FileMaker 13, we’ve seen a monumental feature release with the new FileMaker WebDirect deployment abilities. However, with WebDirect, there comes a new licensing model for...
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Read MoreIf you were blown away by the new features that were rolled out with the introduction of FileMaker 12 back in April of 2012, then hold onto your hats, FileMaker 13 introduces radically new features...
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Read MoreThe other day a client asked me if FileMaker could do something that I had always believed was impossible to do innately from the program, create calendar events in Outlook. I had always thought I...
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