[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 [...]

[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.

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.

Olivier and Luc-Michel of 4D SAS did an entertaining and informative presentation which went over the major changes in 4D v11 SQL. They also demoed a Flex-based admin application that could add and drop tables from a 4D database using user-specified SQL calls.