Nicolas Brachfogel

Product Owner & Senior Developer - Nicolas Brachfogel joined 4D in 2017 as senior developer (4D Server and networking) and as Product Owner to manage the 4D version on Apple Silicon. He is tasked with the redaction of user stories and functional specifications, as well as the verification that the new features are in line with customers' needs. With a degree from Institut Supérieur d'Informatique Appliquée Paris (INSIA), Nicolas started his career as a software developer in 2001. After many years of development in Java and C++, he specialized himself in client-server development in the video game industry. As a developer/software architect, he worked on the server architectures of many games (Dofus Arena, Drakerz, Trivial Pursuit Go !).

Evolution of the diagnostic log

Year after year, feature after feature, the diagnostic log has grown into a massive file on busy servers. With 4D v19R5, we included a new database pa...

Nicolas Brachfogel

April 28, 2022 1 min read

Logs

A new command to get detailed information about licenses

It's sometimes helpful to monitor 4D licenses on your server. That's why with 4D v19 R4, we decided to provide you with a new command giving all the i...

Nicolas Brachfogel

January 14, 2022 1 min read

Programming

High DPI on Windows: Support for high resolution screens

At 4D, we take customer requests very seriously! In previous meetings, customers showed great interest in supporting high-resolution displays, such a...

Nicolas Brachfogel

January 12, 2022 1 min read

New text rendering in forms on Windows with DirectWrite

DirectWrite is the modern text rendering API on Windows. It improves text readability thanks to its subpixel quality, and is fully compatible with the...

Nicolas Brachfogel

November 25, 2021 1 min read

Pause logging and log configuration file

For 4D v19, we started a long-term refinement of our logs. Our first effort was to improve their format to give you better and clearer information. As...

Nicolas Brachfogel

October 7, 2021 1 min read

Logs

Simplified cross-platform client/server application building on Windows

The release of Silicon Macs had a great impact on the way 4D compiles applications. Before v19, 4D was compiling only for Intel architecture, using th...

Nicolas Brachfogel

October 6, 2021 1 min read

4D server Build application Client/Server Deployment Silicon

4D v19: Evolution of Client/Server Application Building

On Mac, application signature has become a standard, and since Big Sur, you can't even run unsigned applications. In the past, we published a workarou...

Nicolas Brachfogel

June 2, 2021 1 min read

Build application Deployment

Evolution of the 4D Log Format

We recently reviewed the formats of our logs to increase their readability and their compliance with automated analysis. We made these improvements in...

Nicolas Brachfogel

April 28, 2021 1 min read

Logs

Here comes the new Silicon compiler!

We already introduced you to our new Silicon compiler in a previous blog post. This new compiler will be used to build Silicon native applications and...

Nicolas Brachfogel

April 22, 2021 1 min read

Silicon

4D v19 is Silicon Native!

Apple's groundbreaking release of the new Silicon Macs pushed us to release 4D v19 six months earlier to provide you with a Silicon native version of ...

Nicolas Brachfogel

April 22, 2021 1 min read

Silicon

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