Non-blocking Printing
With 4D v20 R4, we significantly improved the management of print jobs inside 4D. 4D can now run multiple print jobs in parallel, significantly increa...
January 19, 2024
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Compatibility settings
Deprecation of PHP Commands & Removal of 4D Built-in PHP Interpreter
PHP has played a crucial role in web development, and it was introduced into 4D v12 to offer features not readily available in the native language, su...
October 19, 2023
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XML invisible characters on stage!
Default End Of Line character and Byte Order Mark usage in text files have been modified in 4D v19 R2. With 4D v19 R3, 4D extends this behavior to XML...
October 11, 2021
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Invisible Characters on Stage!
Best practices in IT sometimes change, and the management of certain invisible characters in text files is one example. End of Line (EOL) characters h...
July 20, 2021
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Enhanced XPath Support
XPath is a language allowing you to easily work with your XML documents. It's already usable via the DOM Find XML element command and with 4D v18 R3, ...
May 13, 2020
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Compatibility settings – all the rest (Part 4)
We began a series of blog posts on compatibility settings and the secret options that can drastically help improve the performance and behavior of yo...
December 3, 2018
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Compatibility settings – Nested Transactions (Part 3)
Welcome to our ongoing series about compatibility settings and "hidden" features for improved performance. In the first post, we looked at the QUERY B...
October 30, 2018
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Compatibility settings – Use period and comma as placeholders (Part 2)
We've started a series of blog posts on compatibility settings and the secret options that can drastically help you improve the performance and the be...
September 24, 2018
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Compatibility settings – or driving with the parking brake on(Part 1)
In code kitchens, I usually spend some time with the database settings, especially with the Compatibility settings. Often certain settings don't follo...
August 22, 2018
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