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4D Weekly


November 6, 2009
In this issue:

1. 4D Plug-in SDK is
    Now Open Source

2. Tech Note Central

3. Tech Tips














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1. 4D Plug-in SDK is Now Open Source

To the delight of 4D plug-in developers in the audience and beyond, Christophe Keromen announced during the Welcome keynote at 4D Summit 2009 the open source availability of 4D Plug-in SDK.

"Now, sources will be publicly hosted at sources.4d.com," said Keromen. "All the documentation will be available there. And all of the source code will be available through Subversion Client. You can use free clients like Tortoise on Windows and svnX on Mac OS X."

Check out the Summit Announcement at: http://vimeo.com/7393991

The site provides a Wiki, submission guidelines, and access to the source, at http://sources.4d.com/trac/4d_4dpluginapi/browser

Discussions take place on the existing 4D Plug-in Mailing List 4D Plug-in Mailing List at http://old.nabble.com/4D-Plug-Ins-f15655.html

4D Plug-in SDK is distributed under the MIT (X11) license.

2. Tech Note Central

This week's topic: Using the Amazon Product Advertising API with 4D

The purpose of this Technical Note is to illustrate how advanced Web Services Client functionality can be implemented in 4D. Amazon’s Product Advertising API is used as an example, as the service requires extra coding in order to be called from 4D. More specifically, HMAC-SHA256 digest signatures, REST type web services, complex SOAP headers and other topics related to web services are discussed in this document.

This is only a sample of the many valuable Tech Notes that are available to 4D Partners in the 4D Knowledgebase. There are many more advantages to becoming a 4D Partner. Visit 4D Partner Central for more information.

Tech Note Resources


3. Weekly Tech Tips

This weeks Tech Tips

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75916 Troubleshooting which process is taking the most resources
75903 How do SVG Groups work?
75895 How to get record numbers via SQL
75842 Carriage Returns in an SVG document

All Tech Tips can be found here.

Weekly "What's Hot" Knowledgebase asset

Check out the most frequently accessed asset from the Knowledgebase. 4D Partners have the opportunity to post comments on this topic:

75926 4D Debug Log Analyzer