In-Person Meetups are back!
Appsmith hosted the October 2022 meetup for the FileMaker Sydney Dev group - the first in person meet-up for the group in over two years. Our office seemed like the perfect venue - we have a meeting room, a pizza shop downstairs and a fridge full of beer!
The night started with drinks on our back deck. It was great to catch-up with people from the FileMaker community after so long in lockdown.
Joel Katz from Claris kicked off the presentations with a session introducing Claris Pro and Studio, and Claris’ strategy over the next few years as they transition to the new Claris platform.
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John Pashley had an informative session, bringing everyone up to speed on the new features introduced by Claris over FileMaker 19.2 - 19.5. Claris has ben releasing new features faster than ever before, so it was great to get a recap of the many new improvements released over the last 18 months.
After a break for pizza, Andrew Duncan talked about optimising parsing JSON Arrays using the JSONGetElement Function, which is an important topic as we work with APIs. This was followed by a tag-team demonstration of Claris Studio by Andrew Duncan and John Pashley.
Talk (and drinks) extended until after 11pm, which is a great indication of a successful meetup in our book. We’re looking forward to hosting these meet-ups on a more regular basis.
Intrerested in joining our Meetup? See the the Sydney FileMaker Dev meetup page for more details.