--- title: MainSpring Blog | Mike Beargie (9) description: 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. 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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 2 Minute Read #### [DevCon WebDirect Series 1 of 4: Homeurl and Auto-Login](https://blog.gomainspring.com/filemaker-community/devcon-webdirect-series-1-of-4-homeurl-and-auto-login) Ease of access is one of the top requirements to make a database usable to people. In FileMaker Pro, we’ve created shortcut files that open another database before closing themselves to launch a user... Posted by [Mike Beargie](https://blog.gomainspring.com/author/mbeargie) [Read More](https://blog.gomainspring.com/filemaker-community/devcon-webdirect-series-1-of-4-homeurl-and-auto-login) 1 Minute Read #### [Two-factor Authentication for FileMaker](https://blog.gomainspring.com/cybersecurity-awareness/two-factor-authentication-2) Security is on a lot of people’s minds lately. Massive data breaches have become a monthly occurrence costing businesses millions in losses and untold amounts in data hijacking. With that in mind, a... Posted by [Mike Beargie](https://blog.gomainspring.com/author/mbeargie) [Read More](https://blog.gomainspring.com/cybersecurity-awareness/two-factor-authentication-2) 1 Minute Read #### [Two-factor Authentication](https://blog.gomainspring.com/cybersecurity-awareness/two-factor-authentication) Security is on a lot of people’s minds lately. Massive data breaches have become a monthly occurrence costing businesses millions in losses and untold amounts in data hijacking. With that in mind, a... Posted by [Mike Beargie](https://blog.gomainspring.com/author/mbeargie) [Read More](https://blog.gomainspring.com/cybersecurity-awareness/two-factor-authentication) 3 Minute Read #### [4 Tips to Improve Tour FileMaker Custom Web Publishing Performance](https://blog.gomainspring.com/simple-time-savers/4-tips-to-improve-your-filemaker-custom-web-publishing-performance) Putting together a great custom web publishing (CWP) solution only to find out that it doesn’t perform that great when hosted can be a frustrating issue for a developer (and client) to face.... Posted by [Mike Beargie](https://blog.gomainspring.com/author/mbeargie) [Read More](https://blog.gomainspring.com/simple-time-savers/4-tips-to-improve-your-filemaker-custom-web-publishing-performance) 3 Minute Read #### [3 Tips to Improve Your FileMaker Custom Web Publishing Performance](https://blog.gomainspring.com/filemaker-community/4-tips-to-improve-your-filemaker-custom-web-publishing-performance-2) Putting together a great custom web publishing (CWP) solution only to find out that it doesn’t perform that great when hosted can be a frustrating issue for a developer (and client) to face.... Posted by [Mike Beargie](https://blog.gomainspring.com/author/mbeargie) [Read More](https://blog.gomainspring.com/filemaker-community/4-tips-to-improve-your-filemaker-custom-web-publishing-performance-2) 2 Minute Read #### [FileMaker Tip: GetContainerAttribute()](https://blog.gomainspring.com/simple-time-savers/filemaker-tip-getcontainerattribute) 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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