00:00 - Intro 00:20 - Today's Guest: HOnza Koudelka of 24U Software 00:49 - Dan's post-DevCon rant regarding FileMaker's marketing rebrand as a "Workplace Innovation Platform" 01:50 - "Why isn't FileMaker changing their name?" 03:30 - "'Workplace Innovation Platform' is giving the right name to what we are already doing." 07:25 - 24U @ Devcon 2018 - Plug-Ins 08:30 - "We often do things that no one else does and that's because we like crossing borders...We don't respect borders. We don't respect limitations...When the technology is limiting us, we extend it." 09:20 - "Where the borders of the are, there are typically also the borders of the software." 09:48 - 24U Phidgets Plug-In - https://www.24usoftware.com/Phidgets/ 10:35 - "[Hardware] is what we do in more than half of our solutions these days." 11:10 - Relying on native FileMaker tools for hardware integration needs vs. 24U Solutions 11:50 - Barcode scanning, for example 13:15 - Apple iOS SDK and Gonector (https://www.24usoftware.com/gonector/) to replace bluetooth keyboard emulation for better barcode scanning performance 15:00 - 24U Gonector Plug-In - https://www.24usoftware.com/gonector/ - iOS mobile hardware integration, including the qIDmini UHF RFID scanner (https://www.caenrfid.com/en/products/r1170i-qidmini/), Infinite Peripheral's barcode/NFC/magnetic-stripe iPhone case/enclosure reader, digital scales, and a bluetooth mobile receipt printer from Custom. 19:55 - There are no easily-integrated bluetooth-capable digital scales, so 24U uses the scale's RS-232 Serial Interface. 24:05 - Apple iOS SDK 25:05 - 24U Xgode Service - https://www.24usoftware.com/xgode/ - upload your FileMaker solution and download an iOS app! 31:43 - Adatasol's experience with native mobile applications 35:00 - "Mobile may just mean that you get [users] out of their chairs...to do their work in front of their desks instead of behind their desks and that is workplace innovation." 36:18 - "Every second solution we do somehow involves iPhones or iPads or tablets." 37:00 - HOnza on LiveCode for FM 43:00 - "FileMaker is not the only thing we do." 44:34 - "My experience with business apps is that on the Android market customers are less likely to pay for good software."
Dan returns to the podcast to welcome HOnza Koudelka of 24U Software. HOnza demonstrated several new technologies at DevCon 2018, including 24U's Gonector Plug-In and Xgode Service, and in this episode he shares more about how these amazing tools work. Dan and HOnza also discuss FileMaker's marketing rebrand as a "Workplace Innovation Platform." Finally, we break down trends in the mobile market for FileMaker solutions and the proliferation of tools to go beyond FileMaker's 'borders.' Check out 24U's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/24u for demonstrations of the technologies you'll hear about on this episode.