FMCakeMix allows CakePHP to connect to and interact with FileMaker databases. It was created in 2009 to work with CakePHP 1.3 and has been updated for CakePHP 2.0. FMCakeMix uses Git and GitHub for version control and collaboration. The presentation demonstrated how to install and use FMCakeMix with CakePHP 2.0 to perform operations like saving data to a FileMaker database.