The next meeting of FileMaker Developers in Southern California (FMDiSC)
will be this Friday October 28th from 9:30AM to 1:00PM. As always,
everyone is invited; no charge, no obligation (though participation in
discussion is always encouraged); breakfast included! Please RSVP to
Scott Rose <fmdisc (AT) scottworld (DOT) com> to receive location information.

This week's main topics will be continued DevCon wrap-up, plus coverage
of some of the new & exciting features of FileMaker 8. Also, we've got
Anton Anderson presenting a case study on a conversion project, and then
Joe Patterson will be hosting a brief round table discussion about
consulting services and best practices... so come with your experiences
and ideas! Plus, we're going to do a group survey of some ideas as to
what FMDiSC can add to DevCon 2006.

Here's the tentative schedule of events:

9:30am - 10:00am: Breakfast sponsored by Corey Creasey & Greg Fish
(Firefighters and FileMaker developers with the Glendale Fire Department)

10:00am - 10:30am: Introductions, announcements, group survey

10:30am - 10:50am: Michael Frankel (Wizard Consulting) and Sean Root
(tworoots.com) recap of PHP from DevCon

10:50am - 11:10am: Anton Anderson's (Productivity Consulting) conversion
project & more

11:10am - 11:35am: Two of FileMaker 8's Hottest New Features:
NthRecord() by Jeremiah Small (Small Consulting)
Tooltips by Lynn Allen (Allen & Allen Semiotics)

11:35am - 11:50am: Break

11:50am - 12:25pm: Scott Rose & Rajendra Serber (ScottWorld) will very
briefly talk about some of the other coolest features of FileMaker 8:
custom menus, script variables, disabling script steps, email/save as
PDF/Excel, the data viewer, new tabbed layouts, and more!

12:25pm - 1:00pm: Joe Patterson (Eclectus) will lead a roundtable
discussion on business consulting...bring your thoughts & ideas!

Remember, please RSVP to Scott Rose <fmdisc (AT) scottworld (DOT) com> to receive
location information.

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Howard Schlossberg
FMDiSC Membership Coordinator

FM Pro Solutions Los Angeles, California
Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance