FileMaker Pro meets AI. This is a continuing educational series about how and why to integrate AI into your Claris FileMaker Pro solutions. What it's all about, why it's important, and where do you start? We mix in plenty of FileMaker tips and tricks as well.
FileMaker veterans Matt Navarre and Cris Ippolite have 432 years of combined development experience, and somehow still haven't learned much. But we are trying.
Look for new episodes every two weeks.
Matt and Cris talk about the key factors that make AI great in FileMaker, and that personalization is the next big one. How much does your database know about you? Does it have memory of what reports…
"Sage on the stage" versus "guide on the side" teaching
Cris and Matt look back on how we taught FileMaker in the past, and what changes happened with ChatGPT 4, how the Sal Khan book 'Brave New Word…
Cris and Matt are joined by our friend Ronnie Rios from Claris, and rising star Michael Wallace from Empowered Data Solutions. Michael does an amazing demo of a solution he just released for free tha…
Matt and Cris review the AI focus of Engage in Austin TX, and weave in the main subject: The impact AI has on work, workers and jobs, and where it's headed.
Cris referred to this video: Shopify CEO T…
While presenting a JSON and Beyond session at the CodeWave conference in Spain, I had the chance to sit down with Javier Durá and Doug Wallis.
Javier of Afterdata and Jesús Sánchez of dbFile have been…
Alexis Allen teaches design classes at FM Design university and she is hosting a 1 day FileMaker conference in Toronto, with a training day following the conference. The dates are May 26-27 2025.
Alex…
Matt and Ian talk about running local models, the emergence of Agents, different models for Semantic Search, upcoming conferences, and more.
Agentic. It's the new thing.
Cris and Matt invite Ronnie Rios to talk about upcoming conferences, get deep into a use case that led directly to the cutting edge. It might seem crazy for a mature platf…
Show Notes for Episode 24 :
12 Days of OpenAI: https://openai.com/12-days/
Gemini 2: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024/
Claris Talk +Ai custom GPT: htt…
Episode 23
This just in! Ryan McCann is the interim CEO of Claris, replacing Brad. He has been at Claris a long time and knows the community well. Matt and Ryan talked frankly about many issues includ…
Episode 21
Joris Aarts and Johan Hedman are the two brilliant minds behind the EngageU conference in Malmö Sweden. This year they had over 200 attendees, and reached many other milestones.
Matt sat dow…
Episode 21
Romein was the youngest developer at the conference. He works with his father (who was also there) and also has his own company. Matt enjoyed getting fresh perspective on what FileMaker loo…
ODI Tech is the oldest of the FileMaker hosting companies, and has been hosting databases since the 90s. Matt and Joey talk about hardware, AWS, SSD tech, AI Hosting, and more.
Wesley is the director of Product Engineering, and we talked about some upcoming features in Claris Studio and the new custom layout tools.
Matt joins the Portage Bay Staff for their FileMaker DevCast podcast to talk about JSON. It was a fun discussion, and their staff are all advanced JSON users, and have religion.
Links:
DevCast
https://y…
Show Notes for Episode 17:
Links:
OpenAi o1: https://openai.com/o1/
Reflection: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366
Chain of Thought Prompting Guide: https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/cot
Devin: https…
Matt talks with Joris Aarts from ClickWorks and Johan Hedman from Square Moon. We discuss the upcoming Engage U Conference in November 17-19 in Malmö, Sweden
The conference will feature Brad Freitag, …
Featuring:
Alexis Allen - President and Lead Design Engineer at Hyperspace Data Solutions, Inc., and Founder of FM Design University
Matthew O'Dell Senior Manager - Tech Experience Design at Capital On…
Ronnie Rios from Claris returns. We talk about Sentience, free will (and the illusion thereof), some great books, and use some StarTrek TNG references that make points. It will be a fun discussion, …
Show Notes:
Introducing Apple’s on device Foundation models:
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple-foundation-models
Intuition from iSolutionsAI:
http://isolutionsai.com/intuition/
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