In our recent meeting, we noted that it seems 4D has used Marvel comics theming for their new product development on several occasions in the past. Who is the Marvel fan at 4D?!?! Check out the discussion here.
Perhaps we can offer some suggestions for which character to use next!
March 7th, 2018, 6:00 PM, CST (UTC−6:00)
Special Topic:
Fintech Application Platform by IP Ventures, Steve Brown
Let’s take a look at e-Premium, a state of the art lending solution used by financiers, lenders, and financial institutions to acquire and manage both commercial and consumer loans across a diverse range of asset classes and portfolios. This demo will be from a users perspective to see how the application functions and review the advanced interface concepts at play. Continue reading
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 essential responsibilities is taking forward the unwavering commitment of my community—colleagues, artists, philanthropic supporters and visitors—to champion the power of art and the experiences that makers, museums and audiences create and share to make sense of our collective past, present and future.
January 17th, 2018, 12:00 PM, CST (UTC−6:00)
116 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 3rd floor
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Special Topic:
4D Web Access and Angular2 Components
Julio Carneiro from Pascal Information Technology Ltd will show his “RESTlike” 4D V16 Component that provides CRUD functionality via HTTP access to any 4D Database, along with an Angular2 Typescript Component.
4D Developer Edition 64-bit for OS X (and for Windows, available starting with 4D v16 R2) offers a powerful feature allowing you to execute 4D code in preemptive processes. Thanks to this new feature, your 4D compiled applications will be able to take full advantage of multi-core computers so that their execution will be faster and they can support more connected users.
November 15th, 2017, 12:00 PM, CST (UTC−6:00)
116 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 3rd floor
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Special Topic:
Making Client/Server Workers Work: A real world example using CALL WORKER & CALL FORM
John Baughman from BY’te DESIGN in Hawaii will present a strategy where 4D forms can subscribe to a worker process to monitor when tables are modified. Each table’s trigger reports to the worker any time it fires. The worker in turn passes the trigger’s report on to all the subscribers monitoring the table. The approach works client/server or standalone and is written in 4D v16 R4 using dot notation.
October 4th, 2017, 12:00 PM, CDT (UTC−5:00)
116 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 3rd floor
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Special Topic:
Code Coverage Component, Dani Beaubien
Dani Beaubien from Open Road Development will demo his new Code Coverage 4D v16 Component that can be used by 4D developers to gain a deeper understanding of what code is actually executed while testing. The component is able to track the specific lines of code that are executed and provide a summary window providing various statistics as well as the ability to go into each method and view the lines that were executed, or more importantly those that were not.
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