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4DMethod 4D & Wakanda
User Group
April 21st, 2016
Agenda1. 4DMethod News
2. 4D News from Jim Sobczak, Brian Young
3. Wakanda News from Ricardo Mello
4. The 4D iNUG E-Digest - Ed Hammond
5. Summit Keynote highlights - Brent Raymond
6. Hey 4D!
7. Special topic: The Wakanda Digital App Factory, Ricardo Mello
8. General Q & A
9. Next Meeting - June 8th, 2016 - TestTakers, Frank Pomilla
10.Wrap up
Welcome
Brent Raymond4DMethod 4D & Wakanda User Group
4DMethod 4D & Wakanda User Group
• Combine efforts with other user groups around the world
• Bring together a scattered community of developers and users
• Stream meetings via Google Hangouts to allow people to participate in a live meeting from anywhere
• Record meetings and presentations to be viewed again or shared with others
• Provide fresh new content and exposure to all of the regional groups
4DMethod News
New page on 4DMethod website for Ed Hammond’s E-Digests
4DMethod News
4D Summit session in ParisVirtualize Your Data Structure
• What is a virtual structure?• Advantages and disadvantages• Case study at Art Institute of
Chicago • How to create a VS• Demo database
4D News
Jim Sobczak
VP of Sales & Services for 4D, Inc. OEM Manager
summit.4d.com
http://summit.4d.com/us_en/sessions/
4D v15.2 and 4D v14.5 released
Includes ~160 bug fixes
4D News
Wakanda News
Ricardo MelloRegional Director
Americas - Australia - New Zealand
Wakanda.io
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardodemello
The 4D iNUG E-DigestEd Hammond
• Wide breadth of topics and 4D tech issues
• Take advantage of a wealth of 4D experience and knowledge
• Check out http://4dmethod.com/e-digests/ for a list of recent topics being discussed in the iNUG
• To register: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/listinfo
• All discussion accessible online at: http://4d.1045681.n5.nabble.com
• New 4D Professional Services team
• Decarbonization is done, 64 bit across board
• True multi-threaded worker processes
• New Cache Manager in v16, table weighting
• Client sleep
• Object fields, Distinct Attribute Paths/ Values
4D Summit 2016 Keynote Highlights
• New 4D Tags (interface demo with D3)
• Listbox features, single click edit, disabled rows, eclipses, header icons
• 4D Write Pro, 4D View
• LDAP, Enterprise Directory, SSO
• Quick Report and Label Editor rewritten with 4D
• Suspend and Resume Transactions (sub-table migration)
4D Summit 2016 Keynote Highlights
• Minimizing Process Variable Table/ use of Objects and Dynamic Form Variables
• What about field index types?
• See Tech Tip: When to use B-Tree Indexes versus Cluster B-Tree Indexes, http://kb.4d.com/assetid=49932
• Automatically set 4D field index types (based on your data!) https://4dmethod.com/2015/06/30/automatically-set-4d-field-index-types/
• Art Institute, able to reduce our index size from 1.5 to 1.05 GB
• 30% memory savings in cache! (based on 1.5 GB for 32 bit app)
Optimization
We already have
For text, number, date, pointer, boolean arrays, but what about for Object Array?
Hey 4D!
It'd be a lot cooler if you did...
Feature Requests/ Voting
http://forums.4d.fr/Forum/EN/1075213/0/0
http://kb.4d.com/assetid=76726
Ricardo Mello
wakanda.io Regional Director
Americas, Australia and New Zealand
[email protected]://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardodemello
https://github.com/rmello4d
Special Topic: The Wakanda Digital App Factory
Questions?
Next MeetingWednesday, June 8th, 2016, 12:00 noon, CDT (UTC−5:00)
Frank Pomilla, owner of TestTakers in NYC, will demo a custom 4D application for managing his SAT preparation business.
Calling for speakers who would like to demo some of their work or applications. Open dates include: August 31st, 2016, 12:00 noon, CST (UTC−6:00) October 12th, 2016, 12:00 noon, CST (UTC−6:00) December 7th, 2016, 12:00 noon, CST (UTC−6:00)
Wrap Up
Other questions?
Discussion
Feedback is appreciated