Dan and Nick talk about the direction of the FileMaker platform, what keeps us up at night, pivoting from consulting to product specialization, and what we would do if we were in the driver seat at FM Corporate (don't worry, we say some nice things too).

Dan and Nick welcome Adam Fetrow, Senior FileMaker Developer at Adatasol, to the podcast to discuss systems-level thinking. Adam draws on his experience studying engineering and chemistry when developing in FileMaker to ensure that new features or bug fixes fit into the big picture. We discuss techniques for improving your own systems-level thinking and provide examples of situations that can quickly become problematic if not considered as part of a greater system. Finally, we discuss internally established systems and protocols for management and how systems-level thinking is crucial to the burgeoning web-development team at Adatasol.

Dan and Nick welcome Bridget Brown, Senior FileMaker Developer at Adatasol, to the podcast to discuss one of Adatasol's core values: Be a Hero. Bridget shares tips on how to go the extra mile, eliminate pain points the client doesn't even know they have, and build solid relationships.

Dan and Nick welcome EJ Sexton, Adatasol's Director of Web Development, to the podcast to discuss the TourTools Res Site and how it interacts with and augments the TourTools FileMaker application. He talks about the technologies used to bridge the gap between FileMaker and custom web sites, using FileMaker as a backend data source for a website, and the future of TourTools Res Sites with an eye to ever more powerful frameworks and APIs.

Dan and Nick welcome guest Matt Navarre of AppWorks back to the podcast to discuss business at Adatasol and Appworks, consulting versus vertical product development, FileMaker licensing, and FIleMaker evangelism, education and community.

Dan and Nick welcome guest John Sindelar of Seedcode back to the podcast for a broadly focused dicussion of business developments at Adatasol and Seedcode.

Dan and Nick discuss the need for experts in disparate technologies, specifically web development technologies, in order to meet customer needs and stay on the cutting edge.

Dan and Nick discuss FileMaker's effective bug fix in update 16.3, other "low-code" development environments and competing technologies, and Adatasol's push into web.

Dan and Nick discuss strategies for growth and scalability, including "getting out of the business" and the processes and tools we use for developer and project management.

Dan and Nick get technical with barcode scanning, discussing strategies to optimize inventory management, how to handle different barcode symbologies and the benefits of creating your own internal SKU system.