Category Archives: Updates

4D Matters

On this Martin Luther King Day, I’d like to share a recent quote from the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, James Rondeau. James Rondeau Art Institute of Chicago Art museums matter. As a museum director, one of my … Continue reading

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Happy 5th Birthday, 4DMethod!!!

Five years ago today, we had our first user group meeting under the name  Midwest 4D and Wakanda User Group.  It has been a really exciting transition to what we have now, a global user group where we have participation … Continue reading

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Goodnight MosesWalker

Redirect your bookmarks!  After years of operating under the GitHub account named MosesWalker, I decided to rename it to 4DMethod to avoid confusion and make it easier to find.   All previous example code and demos are still available at https://github.com/4dmethod.   … Continue reading

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Virtualize Your Data Structure

Check out Brent Raymond’s session at the 4D Summits this year. Explore a development strategy that we are using at the Art Institute of Chicago dubbed, The Virtual Structure. This approach helps to centralize data query and retrieval, control application access … Continue reading

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Looking for a Valentine’s Day Escape?

Escape, the maker of the QPix, QGrid, QDrop, QMedia and QMedical plug-ins, is offering to members of the 4DMethod group a 20% discount on Developer licenses. The offer is good through 2016. Contact <sales@escape.gr> before ordering to take advantage of … Continue reading

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4D on Reddit

Did you know that there is a subreddit on Reddit called 4DApps: 4D Applications and Development?…  Probably not because I just created it.  Reddit offers a nice way to post links and comments about a particular topic and then allows … Continue reading

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Coders without borders

I hope everyone is having a terrific year!  As I mentioned in our last meeting, we decided to rename the user group to a name that is less region specific.  Streaming the meetings has allowed participation from all over the world, … Continue reading

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Start the year off right

Greetings everyone, and happy holidays! It’s been a while since we had a meeting. Let’s start off the new year getting together. I am thinking Jan. 7 looks like a good potential date. We will stream the meeting again online … Continue reading

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March 27 Meeting poll…

Hi MUG members, We are planning to have Graham Langley do a demo of his Lightning product. Instead of our regular 6PM meeting time we are planning to do a March 27, Noon (CDT) meeting due to the time difference … Continue reading

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Next stop, San José

We had a great first meeting this week!  We fired up the web cams, ordered some pizza, and settled in to see what the good folks over at 4D had to show us.  Specifically, Josh Fletcher presented an overview of … Continue reading

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