Mike Lee will be speaking at the CASE District I conference in Boston with Donna Savelli Orleman from the MIT Alumni Association. The title of the session is: Getting Everyone on the Same Page: Integrating Databases. Mike and Donna will be discussing the work that Proof and the MITAA have done integrating Oracle and FIleMaker Pro. From the CASE program guide:

I'm back from a couple of days at The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) conference in Baltimore, MD. Before I get into my recap of the conference, things that (with apologies to Peter King) may be interesting only to me:

I'm starting to get excited about heading down to Baltimore in early December for The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) annual conference. This year we decided not to take a booth in the exhibit hall, opting instead to be free to move around the conference without worrying about manning our post. This is a lot more flexible and hopefully it will provide more opportnities for conversations and introductions.

Being “the web guy” in a FileMaker shop can sometimes be a solitary existence… even when you’re called upon to work on a FileMaker/Web integration point you usually get only a glimpse of the FileMaker solution you’re talking to, and the FileMaker developer gets only a glimpse into whatever it is you’re putting together. Most of the time there is not much discussion about what is going on behind the developers’ respective hoods, and that’s generally OK.

Ernest, Mike and Steve spent 30 minutes yesterday with Dan Weiss of Adatasol recording a podcast interview that is available here and on iTunes. We covered a wide range of topics, including our journey with fmSpark, our relationship with SeedCode, and in an unplanned but fun moment, our first public announcement of some of our upcoming products (near the end).