Can you handle 99 bottles of beer... in your favorite programming language? Here's a fun little challenge to stir your technical and creative juices. Over 1437 variations and counting, including this version in FileMaker. How would you do it?

A new release of our free bBox FileMaker plug-in is now available.

Extend the reach of your Mac OS X-based FileMaker solutions to programs, code libraries, or OS functions that are normally outside your reach, including AppleScript, Shell scripts, Python and Ruby.

How do you present rich text field data on a FileMaker layout, and allow users to scroll, select, and copy it, but not make changes? We recently had to do this, and found it more challenging than we'd expected. We discovered two very different ways to do this; both are flexible, lightweight, and will scale well as a solution grows over time.

One of the most valuable aspects of this year’s FileMaker Developers Conference was a far-reaching discussion of the role of design in the FileMaker world. A broad range of speakers presented an exciting new view of design as an interactive process shared by developers and users alike. This new vision of design suggests several new possibilities and poses some intriguing questions for the FileMaker community.

FileMaker DevCon 2011 is just around the corner! Make the most out of your trip and see our Top 11 Tips for DevCon '11 attendees.

Todd Geist and Jon Sindelar are releasing a new product called GoZync. It's essentially a push-pull framework for deploying mobile solutions, especially with FileMaker Go. Here's a recap of their recent presentation at the DIGFM FileMaker developer meetup.

Notes from Vincenzo Menanno's session at PauseOnError on FileMaker User Experience (UX) for Developers", brainstorming how to improve the tools that FileMaker developers themselves use.

"I tried to frame the FileMaker UX discussion with this notion of little things make a big difference. Two key aspect to any UI -- for end users or developers -- are the notions of finesse and refinement. These links to UX/UI resources and examples were provided to get people inspired [and] there were a number of great requests and suggestions which I captured..."