A talk was given at the NYC4D meeting on 19 March 2008 by Julien Feason with input from Add Komoncharoensiri and Rudi Pšeničnik - software engineers at 4D, Inc. They went over the new version of 4D’s Ajax framework with Data Grid 2.0.

The number of Mac laptops at 4D Summit 2007 was incredible. 4D developers seem to love their Macs and our server stats reflect the preference as well.

Chances are there will be no way to use 4D Open to connect to a 4D v11 SQL database. Your options are SOAP connections (possible now in 4D 2004), or SQL connections.

4D will be releasing a Flex library that allows direct SQL access to 4D databases. This presents interesting options for 4D developers working on Web 2.0 applications.

I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw of the 4D Ajax framework at 4D Summit. For certain applications it’s extremely powerful, and the “no code” admin tool is a lot better than you might imagine.