4DMethod meets about every 6 weeks. All meetings are streamed online, have a news update of what is happening in the world of 4D, and have a guest speaker who demonstrates something of interest or recent discussion in the developer community. Participants connect from all around the world in multiple time zones!
Upcoming meeting dates:
- Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 12:00 noon, CST (UTC−6:00)
Your 4D code is the key to Intelligence: the 4D Agentic Framework – Ricardo Mello and Mohamed Idrissi - Wednesday, January 13, 2027, 12:00 noon, CST (UTC−6:00)
AI-Powered Appointment Booking with Tool Calling in 4D AIKit – Soukaina Bachikh - Wednesday, March 3, 2027, 12:00 noon, CST (UTC−6:00)
- Wednesday, April 21, 2027, 12:00 noon, CDT (UTC−5:00)
- Wednesday, June 9, 2027, 12:00 noon, CDT (UTC−5:00)
- Wednesday, July 28, 2027, 12:00 noon, CDT (UTC−5:00)
Interested in showing your application or development work to the user group? Of course you are!! It is a great way to get to know the developer community better and improve the ‘digital footprint’ of your professional skills. It is easy and fun, and well worth the effort. Email 4dmethod@gmail.com to suggest a demo topic and add your name to the list…
Previous Guest Presentations:
- 88: Hi Claude, please make me a Git Client 4D Component – Bruno Raeymaekers
- 87: Using AI and 4D Qodly Pro to Modernize 4D Desktop Applications – Ayoub Metwalli
- 86: Taking AI Kit off the Grid – How to build your own private semantic search engine – Keisuke Miyako
- 85: Cool Stuff You Can Do With 4D Write Pro – Pat Bensky
- 84: BWEB + AI: Rapid development of web applications with 4D – Jean-Michel Biraghi
- 83: Advanced Application Signing – Milan Adamov
- 82: 4D AI Platform – the Future Is Now – Ricardo Mello and Mathieu Ferry
- 81: Cron – It’s about time! – Koichi Harada
- 80: List As Objects – Bruno Raeymaekers
- 79: Beautiful Documentation Made Easy – Jim Kerver
- 78: Visual Studio Code for 4D Developers: Code, Debug and Copilot – Mathieu Ferry and Damien Fuzeau
- 77: 4D and AI – Bring the Power of LLMs to Your 4D Applications – Ricardo Mello
- 76: Enable Data Change Tracking – Keisuke Miyako
- 75: Dynamically Constructing ORDA Queries with a JSON-Based Query Framework – Juan Carlos Perez
- 74: Automating 4D deployments using Gitlab CI/CD Pipelines – James Scott and Jeff Kain
- 73: Full Database Insight Through the Lens of a Single Method – Bruno Raeymaekers
- 72: 4D Info Report Component – Thomas Schlumberger
- 71: Master Action Building with GitHub – Milan Adamov
- 70: ULO (User Listing with ORDA) Online – J Douglas Cryer
- 69: What’s on the Menu, Simplifying Menu Construction – Travis Miles
- 68: 4D Web Server Code Templates – Hector Flores Garza
- 67: Protée sarl – Tools and Code Introspection For Developers – Olivier Grimbert
- 66: ULO (User Listing with ORDA) – J Douglas Cryer
- 65: How To Design a Rule Engine Using ORDA and Object Fields – Tiran Behrouz
- 64: A New Server in 4D v20: WebSocket Server – Speed Up Your Web Clients – Thomas Maul
- 63: Twillio Integration – Tim Nevels
- 62: 6 Changes to Check Before Transitioning to Project mode – Erick Lui
- 61: js.component Sneak Peek – Aparajita Fishman
- 60: 4D in Drag… and Drop – Brent Raymond
- 59: Leveraging ORDA – Exploring Modern 4D app Architecture – Kirk Brooks
- 58: Get started with 4D for Android – Nhat Do
- 57: Southern Illinois University Medical/Dental Education Preparatory Program – Trent Stevens
- 56: js.component: Part 2 – Aparajita Fishman
- 55: js.component: Taking 4D to the next level – Aparajita Fishman
- 54: Keeping Up With 4D’s Latest Technologies — A Worthwhile Endeavor – Chris Belanger
- 53: Avec classe: UI with Class – Vincent de Lachaux
- 52: 4D Server Monitoring using Grafana and Prometheus – Thomas Maul
- 51: Enrich UX and UI with Unicode Special Characters – Add Komoncharoensiri
- 50: Different ways to access and display 4D data – Christophe Flament
- 49: Argus Development Environment Shell & Tools for 4D – Jody Bevan
- 48: Building developer.4d.com, a markdown-based documentation site – Arnaud Schmitt
- 47: Quickly Open Things in 4D Development Environment and Sync Code Between Projects – Cannon Smith
- 46: Building your own Classes in 4D: Examples and sample code – Tim Nevels
- 45: A Modern Component for Reading Delimited Text Files – Dani Beaubien
- 44: Modularizing Collection and Entity Selection List Boxes – Kirk Brooks, Guy Algot
- 43: How to implement a Worker queue monitor using Storage – Tim Nevels
- 42: Database Introspection with QS_Toolbox, Patrick Emanuel
- 41: Art Institute of Chicago Data Hub Public API, Nikhil Trivedi & Illya Moskvin
- 40: AJ Suite of Components, Gabriel Inzirillo
- 39: Lights, Camera, Actions! with 4D for iOS, Will Taylor
- 38: 4D at Sweetwater Sound: This one goes to 11! Joel Levy
- 37: mdWebSocket, 4D WebSockets component, Matt Davis
- 36: Kentika : an API for efficient electronic document management (EDM) in 4D, Alexandre Bernard, Ph.D
- 35: Using 4D v17 Dynamic Forms for Custom Label Printing, Tim Nevels
- 34: Subforms as dynamic data objects – rethinking the 4D form, Kirk Brooks
- 33: Configuration management for IT infrastructure using 4D, Balinder Walia
- 32: List box going in a new dimension with ORDA, Thomas Maul
- 31: Leveraging 4D with a Xojo Web app front end, John Baughman
- 30: Fintech Application Platform by IP Ventures, Steve Brown
- 29: 4D Web Access and Angular2 Components, Julio Carneiro
- 28: Making Client/Server workers work, John Baughman
- 27: Code Coverage Component for 4D, Dani Beaubien
- 26: A Publish/Subscribe Component for 4D, David Adams
- 25: 4D ACME Client – A Lets Encrypt client in native 4D code, Tim Penner
- 24: CITI Lite – Going 4D Mobile at the Art Institute of Chicago, Xiang Liu and Brent Raymond
- 23: WebFileManager4D – A new remote file management code library, Tom DeMeo
- 22: Building services with 4D Mobile, Alex Heilmann
- 21: New 4D Write Pro, Roland Lannuzel
- 20: 4DListbox component, Bruno Raeymaekers
- 19: Cloud based storage with 4D and S3, Bruno Legay
- 18: Messaging with 4D v16, Thomas Maul
- 17: Code Analysis Component for 4D, Dani Beaubien
- 16: TestTakers SAT prep management with 4D, Frank Pomilla
- 15: The Wakanda Digital App Factory, Ricardo Mello
- 14: Canvas and NTK, Rob Laveaux
- 13: Salesperson incentive interface, Guy Algot
- 12: New plugin for executing real 4D Code within HTML templates, Christian Sakowski
- 11: CatBase: The Database Publishing Solution, Pat Bensky
- 10: The Film Workers Club, Todd Freese
- 9: Address validation using Google Maps API and 4D, Brent Raymond
- 8: 4D Mobile In Action, David Robbins
- 7: A closer look at constants, Jim Dorrance
- 6: Foundation Shell for 4D, Walt Nelson
- 5: 4D Info Report component, Ed Hammond
- 4: A closer look at Wakanada, Saad Mousliki, Greg McCarvell
- 3: How to do your first Wakanda 4D integration, Joshua Capy
- 2: Lightning, Graham Langley
- 1: JSON component, Rick Hazey
