We have a meeting coming up on Monday! The agenda is provisional at the moment - watch this space!
Huge thanks to all the presenters last time - John and Carl, Ian, Kate, Stathis for some really great and though-provoking talks at the FMBug 87 (March). My goodness how our role and tools have changed in the last year or two! If you missed it, check it out on our YouTube Channel as soon as it becomes live. \we have also put up the chat and the slightly edited AI meeting summary. Various other resources from the meeting will be available when we get them.
Thanks too to all who came - we really appreciate your participation.
Hope to see you on 11th May!
Resources from the last meeting
Location
Online
Date & time
Monday 11th May 2026
7:00-9:30 pm UK time
8:00-10:30 pm CET
Virtual bar after
LondonGMT/UTC | BrusselsCET +1 | NYEST -5 | AustinCST -6 | LAPST -8 | SydneyAEDT +11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19:00-21:30 | 20:00-22:30 | 14:00-16:30 | 13:00-15:30 | 11:00-13:30 | 06:00-08:30 Tue |
Agenda
| Time (UK) | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 19:00 | Welcome/Intro | Jul Carson |
| 19:05 | Goodbye Relational Model - Hello Graph Model! The relational model prevents real reuse. Not because it is poorly implemented in FileMaker - but because its foundational premise, coupling storage to semantics, makes deep reuse structurally impossible. Every script that reads or writes a value must name a location - a specific field in a specific table. Those names are domain-specific. The scripts inherit the domain. They can't be reused. | Tobias Sjögren |
| 19:35 | What's New? | Gary Palmer |
| 19:50 | Transcribr and Extractr - two brilliant new tools for developers Ian will show us these two new incredible AI-based tools he has developed and is making available to the community. | Ian Jempson |
| 20:50 | The Claris Bombshell - open discussion. Writing code used to be the hard part. It isn't anymore. | Led by Jul and Gary |
| 21:30 | VIRTUAL BAR We can open the bar early if the discussion becomes sensitive! | |
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