Generate AWS Signature Version 4 in FileMaker

This year I had a lot of fun creating the examples for the session at DevCon. Along with the fun I had a couple of interesting technical challenges. One of those was how to generate the Signature Version 4 used to authenticate Requests in AWS. Amazon provides SDKs for...

New Website – Finally

I know these posts are terribly un-exciting for everyone, but we’ve finally finished the changeover from our old Drupal based website to our new one.  Including new individual product sites all based off the same template with separate content. You never realise...

Sync is not a product

I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while now, as there’s lots of talk about sync in the FileMaker community.  I had some thoughts about it last year at the 2016 DevCon and did a session on this topic.  I revisited it again at our local FileMaker...
FileMaker integration with Nextcloud

FileMaker integration with Nextcloud

This integration was a request from a sponsor, who uses Nextcloud in a similar way to the Dropbox API example we posted recently. Nextcloud I didn’t know much about the Nextcloud API and despite the documentation being somehow fragmented, the interaction seemed...

Goya Custom App showcased in FileMaker Webinar

Goya was recently approached by Endeavour Veterinary to build a solution to help them with improving some aspects of field data collection for their business. Endeavour Veterinary Ecology P/L is an Australian company based in Toorbul, Queensland, that provides...
FileMaker integration with Mailchimp

FileMaker integration with Mailchimp

Back for a new episode on FileMaker Integration with Web Services! In the past three weeks we looked at what we need to integrate FileMaker with external APIs, and the code implementations for the Dropbox API and the Zendesk API. Mailchimp The idea for this series...
FileMaker integration with Zendesk

FileMaker integration with Zendesk

Second installment of our series on FileMaker integration with Web Services. Check the Intro and the first article about the Dropbox API if you’ve missed them. Zendesk This week we’ll have a look at the Zendesk API. If you’re new to Zendesk, it is a...

FileMaker integration with Dropbox

This is the first in our series on Web Services integration with FileMaker that I mentioned last week. DropBox The API we are going to look at today is DropBox. With this API a FileMaker solution can manage and share files, folders and Dropbox Paper documents. As an...
FileMaker and web services (and us)

FileMaker and web services (and us)

Like most modern companies, here at Goya we use web-based tools. Slack, Dropbox, Zendesk and Mailchimp are awesome platforms to organise our work and to share our ideas. The best part though is that we can manage all these services from a FileMaker solution. Which is...

BaseElements Update and more

It’s been a while since the last BaseElements update, and I’ve had a few emails asking me what’s going on. Rest assured we’re still working on it, and things are progressing. And FileMaker 15 is out today, and happens to coincide with me...