[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008]
Presenter: Tim Kaufman, 4D Inc.
One of the problems with Flash was that the development environment felt alien to programmers. Flex fixes that - it provides an IDE which feels natural to developers, but compiles down to .swf files. Flash Player 9 is required to run Flex because it uses [...]

[Notes from 4D Summit 2008.]
Christophe Keromen, Senior Product Manager, 4D SAS
To meet changing demands 4D will be focusing more on RIAs.
They’ll also focus on collaborative development.
The infrastructure is changing as well… Wi-Fi, mobile computing, etc… The Ajax framework is important there as well.
4D will target 64-bit
Require fewer resources, and focus on mobile friendly technologies
They understand [...]

[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008. Pictures will come later...]
Presentation by 4D Inc. Web 2.0 Team

Web 2.0 is all about rich user interfaces, another factor is the ability to constantly roll out new enhancements. One of the other factors is the fact that end users are driving the features by saying “I saw that [...]

Pages that change are called dynamic pages. These can be template based or have small (or large) scripts embedded in them that execute either in the browser or on the server before the page is delivered to the browser.

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.