[These are notes from a session 4D Summit 2008.]
Presenters: Laurent Ribardiere, Laurent Esnault, Olivier Deschanels, 4D SAS

Laurent Ribardiere
What’s changed since last year’s Summit…
LR wanted to start by clarifying something about blob and text storage outside the record. There are times when it’s a negative since when you have to search that field it’s something like [...]

[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 to follow later.]
Presenter: Tom Fitch, 4D Inc.
Demoed a database with interactive SVG areas. Click on an area on the graphic (a seating chart for an arena) and it maps it to the appropriate data elements and lets you take action on that element (buying a ticket [...]

[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 [...]

[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008]
Olivier Deschanels & Thibaud Arguillere, 4D SAS
They went over the remote admin capabilities - many things can be done while the server is live, but a few things, like compacting the data file, require the server to be shut down.
When designing using 4D Server/4D Remote you can how compile. [...]