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Welcome to Vienna Calling '25

We invite everybody to make a short (5min) micro-presentation showing off something that is either very useful for them or that has captures their imagination. 

Not everybody is used to speak in front of a group, but that is exactly what Vienna Calling is about. So this is an icebreaker of sorts. It is also a hook to get in touch with the other attendees more easily.

Please just open a file, zoom in and show and tell!

Myths and facts about how file authorization works (authorizing file A to access file B as described at https://help.claris.com/en/pro-help/content/authorizing-access.html). It keeps causing headaches to developers (including my team as you can see in https://community.claris.com/en/s/question/0D53w00006DNof8CAD/issue-with-requesting-aut[…]n-for-already-authorized-file-while-accessing-another-file and https://community.claris.com/en/s/question/0D5Vy000005PR2fKAG/protected-file-multiple-instances-authorization-issue). So I have done some tests to reveal how it does and does not work and am ready to share my discoveries. W may also come up with a mutually agreed proposal for Claris how to improve this important security feature for the future.

# Managing local tasks

* Crontab

* Curating local backups

* Publishing data sets

# Scaffolding other systems

* SQL

* CoreData

* Storyboards

* Swift structs, enums, or vapor routes

# Publishing data

* Prerendered PDF, HTML, XML, JSON, or other formats.

Let us take an existing database and add cool MBS features. Bring your ideas on what we could add. 

This is live coding, debugging and discussion. Ask questions, bring ideas and let's bring some MBS functions to use.

Brief introduction to Initiative '24 (24U's endeavor to make the FileMaker calculation engine significantly faster for everyone), followed by a discussion on details like:

• why and how it can be done
• why it's worth the effort and why it makes sense along with other great improvements
• how to convince Claris to make it priority (i.e. how to get enough votes to make it idea #1)
• how to help Claris to get it done
• how to benchmark and which functions to focus on primarily
• how not to break any existing solutions but still make all of them faster

Most of you already know about this initiative, so I want to keep the introduction very short and instead focus on joining our forces to come up with solid strategy that makes sense and has a chance to get accepted and adopted by Claris.

Let's check all the benefits the MBS Plugin adds to FileMaker.

How you can enjoy help for writing scripts, custom functions or debugging.

Thinking fast and slow somebody said. In what narrative I thought.

The thinking of data as your thoughts; turning into IP( Intellectual Property )

What is backup? rsync to the cloud? Does your term backup have a definition? Does a media have to be physically distanced to become a backup? Such as an ejected LTO or CDVD/BD-ROM?

Defining these terms are imperative to defining who you are in the digital world.

Do you have seeding strategies for your laptops and workstations?

# Your thoughts can have different forms
* In your head

* Written down on paper
* Written down in your computer

* Live data from computer

* Published from live data

Sharing and explaining cool and complex calculations, (such as those in my examples PDF Links, PDF Barcodes, PDF Canvas, PDF Pages, PNG Barcodes, PNG Canvas or Advent of Code), discussing different approaches to creating, debugging and optimizing calculations, when (not) to use the help of AI, what challenges we have faced and how we dealt with them etc.

Intentionally setting this to a small room in parallel to the MBS session, this is primarily intended for people who prefer (for whatever reasons) pure FileMaker calculations even for complex tasks over leveraging plug-ins, JavaScript and other alternatives. I can imagine 1 hour may become too short even in a very small group of people... ;-)