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Mike Beargie

About Mike Beargie

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.



Articles by Mike Beargie

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Pause on Error Recap

I’ve been lucky enough to attend two major FileMaker events in North America within four months. FileMaker DevCon was the first last July, and most recently Pause on Error in October. About Pause on...

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Building a Modal Dialog Using Popovers

Today we’ll be exploring the concept of using popovers as modal dialogs in FileMaker. A modal dialog is a type of control that forces the end user to look at something or take action before...

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Interesting iOS 8 Features for FileMaker Developers

Apple’s iOS 8 was released a few weeks ago, and there may be a few things involving iOS 8 that would be of interest to FileMaker developers. The first important item to bookmark is the FileMaker Go...

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DevCon WebDirect Series 4 of 4: Plan for Non-iOS Mobile Devices

Missing FileMaker Go on non-iOS products? Well, FileMaker WebDirect opens up some opportunities to start working on those platforms. Although technically not supported, we have done some basic...

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DevCon WebDirect Series 3 of 4: Customize WebDirect Titles

Users that have highly customized menu sets for their files were probably a little disappointed that they were locked into using FileMaker’s menu set for WebDirect. While there is no ability to...

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DevCon WebDirect Series 2 of 4: Printer-friendly CSS

Welcome to the first full day of DevCon! I’d like to start things off with a bang and show off a bit of the hacking we’ve been doing to WebDirect. One of the largest hurdles to jump over in...

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