Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax presents 'Modernizing Code - Maintaining Your Investment' at Elevate FM 2025 in Toronto on May 26, 2025. The presentation focuses on the importance of maintaining and adapting FileMaker solutions over time to reduce technical debt.

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For IT leaders and enterprise architects, understanding and implementing AI agents has become a critical priority. These systems aren’t just another tool in the technology arsenal—they’re becoming essential for maintaining competitive advantage in an increasingly automated world.

With FileMaker 2024 (v21) Claris unveiled powerful features aimed at enhancing data management and security. This blog post series covers ongoing advancements in FileMaker's Data API (FM DAPI), focusing on REST and cURL, which offer developers greater control and flexibility in their applications. We're providing a tutorial file, bzTrainer-FMDAPI, to help you learn and experiment with various REST and cURL functions using FileMaker's Data API. Enjoy exploring!

FileMaker Server v21.1 (2024) enhances plug-in capabilities by enabling notifications of changes to database schema and scripts via JSON payloads. The bBox plug-in, supporting multiple languages and systems, processes these notifications through Syslog, DuckDB, or OData methods. Each approach varies in configuration complexity and data handling efficiency.

A recent addition to FileMaker Server is a feature called 'schema notifications'. These actually cover a broader area then the name implies, essentially any database modifications if they aren't modifying a file's data.

FileMaker Pro 21.1 enhances AI capabilities with semantic search for images and text, adds security updates, and improves script controls. It streamlines layout management and file handling, and overall introduces more than 300 impactful features.

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bBox version 1.05 introduces schema change notifications, a new Ubuntu ARM binary, and DuckDB integration, replacing SQLite functions. This free utility plug-in enhances FileMaker solutions, supporting multiple coding libraries. Updates include Python 3.13 on macOS and JQ 1.7.1.

EngageU, the largest Claris / FileMaker Developer conference in Europe, takes place in Malmö this November 17th-19th with Claris as primary sponsor, and Beezwax as exhibitor and sponsor. At EngageU, Vincenzo Menanno delivers sessions on building great solutions and utilizing InspectorPro for diagnostics and in-depth analysis. The conference attracts top partners, developers, and community leaders focusing on innovation in Claris and FileMaker platform development.