Summit keynote

[aparajita]

Hi all,

Thank you to everyone who gave me such good ideas for the Summit  
keynote screencast. The fruit of your ideas can be seen here:

http://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/products/Active4D/screencasts.php

Hope you enjoy it. I will be doing many more screencasts in the weeks  
and months to come. Here is what I have lined up:

- Installing Active4D
- Active4D basic concepts
- Language enhancements
- Enhanced string handling
- Collections
- Array enhancements
- Regular expressions
- Libraries
- Understanding and using sessions
- RowSets
- Fusebox: concepts
- Fusebox: building a site
- URL mapping with the On Request handler

If you have any suggestions for topics, I am interested to hear them.

Kind regards,

    Aparajita
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[Oliver Brodwolf]

Hello Aparajita

You are a multitalent. A super demonstration. My english is not very  
good, but I did understand all immediately.
You should publish it as podcast too.

Regards, Oliver




Am 11.10.2009 um 19:52 schrieb Aparajita Fishman:

> Hi all,
> http://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/products/Active4D/screencasts.php
> Hope you enjoy it. I will be doing many more screencasts in the  
> weeks and months to come. Here is what I have lined up:
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[Scott Henderson-3]

Aparajita, excellent screencast.  Impressive on all fronts: content,
presentation, results (of using A4D).
Plus, I now know how to pronounce your name! :-)

Seriously, the demo makes it very alluring for any 4D developer to try out
A4D.  The ease looks compelling.

That said, your presentation shows the power of a screencast.  May I ask
what tool(s) did you use to make your screencast?

Thanks,

Scott

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> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:52:36 -0400
> From: Aparajita Fishman <aparajita@...>
> Subject: [Active4d-dev] Summit keynote
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>
> Hi all,
>
> Thank you to everyone who gave me such good ideas for the Summit
> keynote screencast. The fruit of your ideas can be seen here:
>
> http://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/products/Active4D/screencasts.php
>
> Hope you enjoy it. I will be doing many more screencasts in the weeks
> and months to come. Here is what I have lined up:
>
> - Installing Active4D
> - Active4D basic concepts
> - Language enhancements
> - Enhanced string handling
> - Collections
> - Array enhancements
> - Regular expressions
> - Libraries
> - Understanding and using sessions
> - RowSets
> - Fusebox: concepts
> - Fusebox: building a site
> - URL mapping with the On Request handler
>
> If you have any suggestions for topics, I am interested to hear them.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>    Aparajita
>    www.aparajitaworld.com
>
>    "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
>    - Sri Chinmoy   |   www.srichinmoy.org
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:48:37 -0400
> From: Oliver Brodwolf <oliver@...>
> Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] Summit keynote
> To: active4d-dev@...
> Message-ID: <redirect-18962971@...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> Hello Aparajita
>
> You are a multitalent. A super demonstration. My english is not very
> good, but I did understand all immediately.
> You should publish it as podcast too.
>
> Regards, Oliver
>
>
>
>
> Am 11.10.2009 um 19:52 schrieb Aparajita Fishman:
>
> > Hi all,
> > http://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/products/Active4D/screencasts.php
> > Hope you enjoy it. I will be doing many more screencasts in the
> > weeks and months to come. Here is what I have lined up:
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:14:19 -0400
> From: Aparajita Fishman <aparajita@...>
> Subject: [Active4d-dev] Memory leaks
> To: active4d-dev@...
> Message-ID: <redirect-18966624@...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> Hi,
>
> Just so you know, v5.0b3 has many memory leaks, so you can expect
> memory usage to increase over time. I am in the process of plugging
> those leaks, I hope to have a new version out later today.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>    Aparajita
>    www.aparajitaworld.com
>
>    "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
>    - Sri Chinmoy   |   www.srichinmoy.org
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:59:54 -0400
> From: Oliver Brodwolf <oliver@...>
> Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] Memory leaks
> To: active4d-dev@...
> Message-ID: <redirect-18966822@...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> Hello Aparajita
>
> I found out, that every time there is a process-variable in the game
> (if a reference to a collection, or not, it makes memory problems). I
> eliminated a lot of them in my application, and this helps.
> But now I have to do a lot of
> global($myPseudoProcessVar) in most methods.
>
> I know, the other solution would be to use the  _request collection.
>
> Isn't it possible, to declare a view variables as global in a special
> way (in On Execute Start)  , so that in any method this variables are
> global without declare it in the method.
>
> method "On Execute Start"
>
>        global($myPseudoProcessVar ; modeAnywhere)
>
> end method
>
>
> method "test"
>
>        write($myPseudoProcessVar)
>
> end method
>
>
> Regards, Oliver
>
> Am 12.10.2009 um 16:14 schrieb Aparajita Fishman:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just so you know, v5.0b3 has many memory leaks, so you can expect
> > memory usage to increase over time. I am in the process of plugging
> > those leaks, I hope to have a new version out later today.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> >   Aparajita
> >   www.aparajitaworld.com
> >
> >   "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
> >   - Sri Chinmoy   |   www.srichinmoy.org
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:11:09 -0400
> From: Aparajita Fishman <aparajita@...>
> Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] Memory leaks
> To: active4d-dev@...
> Message-ID: <redirect-18966879@...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> > I found out, that every time there is a process-variable in the game
> > (if a reference to a collection, or not, it makes memory problems).
> > I eliminated a lot of them in my application, and this helps.
>
> I will eliminate this leak, but in general you shouldn't use process
> variables as globals.
>
>
> > But now I have to do a lot of
> > global($myPseudoProcessVar) in most methods.
>
> If you only want the variable to be global to the current request,
> this is not correct. The globals collection is global to every
> process. It's the equivalent to interprocess variables in 4D.
>
>
> > I know, the other solution would be to use the  _request collection.
>
> I think this is the correct solution.
>
>
> > Isn't it possible, to declare a view variables as global in a
> > special way (in On Execute Start)  , so that in any method this
> > variables are global without declare it in the method.
>
> The simplest solution would be to allow you to use global() in the
> global scope, which would make the variables global to the entire
> request. I'll have to see if this is possible. In the meantime please
> use _request.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>    Aparajita
>    www.aparajitaworld.com
>
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[Jim Redfield]

Aparajita,

With LR moving into "Wakanda" development (whatever that really is),  
how does Wakanda impact the future of Active 4D?

Thanks in advance.

Jim Redfield
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[Alam, Mehboob]

Wakanda is based on JavaScript, and is an application server with a
database engine. It does not replace 4D, and certainly not today..

Active4D works today, and I'm raring to get a stable 4Dv11 so that I can
start my projects :)



Sincerely,

Mehboob Alam

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Aparajita,

With LR moving into "Wakanda" development (whatever that really is),  
how does Wakanda impact the future of Active 4D?

Thanks in advance.

Jim Redfield
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[Salow, John]

Yah, I was going to mention that wakanda is vaporware at this point.

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Wakanda is based on JavaScript, and is an application server with a
database engine. It does not replace 4D, and certainly not today..

Active4D works today, and I'm raring to get a stable 4Dv11 so that I can
start my projects :)



Sincerely,

Mehboob Alam

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Aparajita,

With LR moving into "Wakanda" development (whatever that really is),  
how does Wakanda impact the future of Active 4D?

Thanks in advance.

Jim Redfield
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[Alexander Heintz]

In the time since I started with 4D (1987) I have seen so many "great,  
new, groundbreaking, ... " technology projects by 4D, and ALL of them,  
bar NONE, have sooner or later been swept under the rug, never to be  
mentioned again.

Some of you may remember how pissed Laurent still reacts when taunted  
with a 4D Universal T-shirt...

Sadly they never made any memorabilia for Goldfinger.

I will believe it when it has a box and a price tag and some shelf  
space at Amazon...

So to me, Active4D with the JavaScript Framework of your choice is  
still the safest bet for my money!

Cheers

Alex

> Yah, I was going to mention that wakanda is vaporware at this point.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: active4d-dev-bounces@... [mailto:active4d-dev-bounces@...
> ] On Behalf Of Alam, Mehboob
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 12:48 PM
> To: active4d-dev@...
> Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] Active 4D and Wakanda
>
> Wakanda is based on JavaScript, and is an application server with a
> database engine. It does not replace 4D, and certainly not today..
>
> Active4D works today, and I'm raring to get a stable 4Dv11 so that I  
> can
> start my projects :)
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mehboob Alam
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:active4d-dev-bounces@...] On Behalf Of
> jaredfield@...
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 3:45 PM
> To: active4d-dev@...
> Subject: [Active4d-dev] Active 4D and Wakanda
>
> Aparajita,
>
> With LR moving into "Wakanda" development (whatever that really is),
> how does Wakanda impact the future of Active 4D?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jim Redfield
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[aparajita]

> Some of you may remember how pissed Laurent still reacts when  
> taunted with a 4D Universal T-shirt...

4D v11 is essentially what is left of the original Universal  
specification.

Kind regards,

    Aparajita
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[Alam, Mehboob]

There was one tantalizing detail about Wakanda.. the "server" is
faceless, so it may also be available for Linux and "cloud"-platforms...

and the Wakanda data-engine will have replication/synchronization
capabilities with 4Dv11.



Sincerely,

Mehboob Alam


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> Some of you may remember how pissed Laurent still reacts when  
> taunted with a 4D Universal T-shirt...

4D v11 is essentially what is left of the original Universal  
specification.

Kind regards,

    Aparajita
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[aparajita]

> That said, your presentation shows the power of a screencast.  May I  
> ask
> what tool(s) did you use to make your screencast?

ScreenFlow for the screen recording, Audio Hijack Pro for the sound  
recording. And a good microphone. I borrowed a friend's mic for that  
screencast, since then I bought an Audio-Technica AT2020USB.

Kind regards,

    Aparajita
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[aparajita]

> how does Wakanda impact the future of Active 4D?

PHP integration with 4D impacts me much more.

Kind regards,

    Aparajita
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[Christian Sakowski]

Currently, v12 will not be able to execute PHP in a Webserver context.  
This is very pity for me, but good for you, now.

But, how many 4D programmers know PHP? I think 80 percent of 4D  
developers had not worked with XML or SVG...
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Am 13.10.2009 um 02:53 schrieb Aparajita Fishman:

>> how does Wakanda impact the future of Active 4D?
>
> PHP integration with 4D impacts me much more.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>   Aparajita
>   www.aparajitaworld.com
>
>   "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
>   - Sri Chinmoy   |   www.srichinmoy.org
>
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