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.

Laurent Ribardière’s comment at 4D Summit about avoiding triggers may make sense from a technical standpoint, but not from a business perspective. The take away should be to minimize the use of triggers – don’t avoid them unless it suits your business needs.

4D Live Window is a plug in for 4D which allows you to display the contents of a web page on a form in a 4D application. Sounds like a great idea, but there are a lot of things you need to know to implement Live Window successfully.

The ‘bridge’ portion of the 4D Ajax framework can be integrated with a variety of other Ajax frameworks. Lee Hinde showed the 4D framework working with jQuery and discussed the issues and challenges this type of programming entails.

4D’s list boxes are powerful user interface tools. v11 SQL introduces a number of enhancements to list boxes to make them even more powerful.