Thoughts on Design, FileMaker, DevCon, Pause on Error, ROI (Return on Investment), and anything else related to what The Alchemy Group does on a daily basis. We care, so we share whatever we can with you. We are a full-featured FileMaker Pro development shop, with years of experience building systems for businesses, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations exactly like yours. Your unique processes will be exactly mirrored by the custom software we write for you, whether it’s for mobile or desktop.
Why You Should Use FileMaker Pro
These days, the voluminous amount of data we collect in the course of conducting business transactions requires us to find an efficient way to manage it. There are already big names in the database management software niche, like SQL Server, Microsoft Access and...
FileMaker 13 Product Line Announced
On December 3, 2013 FileMaker Inc. brought us FileMaker 13, the latest in its fantastic line of products. I'm not exaggerating when I say that this is one of the best new releases I have seen in years. ?Sporting a host of great new features and some not-so-obvious...
Experience & Style
Alchemy Consulting Group president Bob Shockey is speaking at the Experience & Style conference in Chicago on Tuesday, October 22. If you have not yet heard about this important conference, please check it out at experienceandstyle.com. Bob's topic: Designing with...
New Digs!
As of August 1, the AG team has moved into a new, 1200 square foot office space in San Dimas. We are very excited to be in a new space that gives us room to grow ? and we are growing. Keep an eye on this blog for exciting new announcements about how our team is...
Platform Agnostic to the Extreme
Here's an interesting article about an attempt to design a development environment that is meant to be usable by any device, anywhere (editors note: the link is no longer active). The people behind this thinking should be commended for their foresight and sheer guts....
Interesting new development
There has been an interesting new development in the conversation about 3D vs. Flat Design. Read about it here:?http://gizmodo.com/androids-tips-for-beautiful-icon-design-are-the-opposi-837222105
A Way to Obtain a Natural Color Palette
If you are looking for a more "natural" color palette to use in your database solution, take a look here: http://moviesincolor.com/. Everything is drawn from actual movie stills. Very cool!
Video Testimonial from a VERY Happy Client!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk9s8b-9XoE&width=512&height=288
The Death of Irony
I was in Portland recently, where almost everyone there made me feel less cool than I thought I was. The clothes are cool, the speech is cool, the attitude is cool ? Even my hotel was cool, the Ace (there's one in NY and other locales as well). But coolness is...
Inspiration
There must be thousands of 25 (50, 100) best/great ?design pages out there. Some are better than others, and most will have some snippets that we FileMaker developers can use for inspiration. Every once in a while, I run across one that seems to be exceptionally good....