Insights and Ideas from Our Team

Find this discussion on how important it is to consistently consult your software users in the development process and what not doing so can cost you.

Learn about the key principles of agile development used for planning and maintaining focus during construction of large projects.

Read about what to consider and our suggested best practice for Evaluate as a FileMaker expression from certified FileMaker developers.

Check out this discussion on context-independence and what to consider when writing loose coupling FileMaker scripting patterns.

Find useful tips and tricks such as command-line utility, ‘xsltproc’, to run XSLT programs quickly when testing in FileMaker.

Learn how to how to implement FileMaker External Authentication with no domain on non-server OS from our team of FileMaker experts.

So, rapid application development. In our space at least, it’s all about time to features. Not time to market, or return on investment, or any fuzzier metric, but simply; I need a feature, how long will it take? (And how much will it cost). Over here at Soliant we do business apps, meanings apps for businesses, …

How realistic are self-organizing teams in agile? How do they function? Check out our team’s best practices, which stem from our own experience.

Find the sessions from the Soliant Consulting team that you can find at the FileMaker Developer Conference including those from Steve Lane and Lee Lukehart.

The attached file demonstrates how to build a navigation into FileMaker Pro using a set of custom XML functions that roughly model XPATH commands.