Last year’s Summit saw 4D taking a giant leap forward with v11, but it wasn’t all there (no 4D Server v11). This year’s Summit was more about delivering for the real world and refinement.
4D Server v11 SQL really is pretty cool, and quite powerful. A lot of what it was about was discussed last year, [...]

[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008]
Dot notation vs. the language – They’ve been working on a new language for 4D. They’ll be following ECMAScript. It’s too early to be specific.
SQL Views – not in v11, but should be in the next version.
Components will have data files in the next version – part of the [...]

[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008]
Presenters: Olivier Dechanels, Thibaud Arguillere
How the datafile is organized…
Each block in 4D’s data file is 128 bytes.
Each block can only hold one item. An item may take more than one block and if so, they must be contiguous.
In the future they plan on having special data segments to store [...]

[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008.]
Presenter: Jesse Pina
Resources are now defined as files needed to translate an interface. Can be images or text. Everything is file based.
Converting from resource fork resources to file based resources

Strings -> XLIF
Images -> files
Constants -> plugins
4D & System – > do not use

You can refer to xliff strings by [...]

[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008]
Presenter: Achim Peschke, 4D Germany
Compatibility Issues
The “old edit menu” / “v6.8 compatibility” option is gone. 4D will automatically insert an Edit menu if you haven’t already created one. There will be an alert telling you that it was created. If you’re using menu numbers it changes the numbering and [...]