Re: Deployment of Vertical Market 4D App in AWS Cloud

Keith, Great news you got platform set for everyone on cloud and future deployments. My vote goes to Nginx or nginx plus - it never fails. I have been using it for 6-7 years and it is the most reliable and flexible and beautiful piece of software I have ever used. I can offer some help - to start

Re: Deployment of Vertical Market 4D App in AWS Cloud

Thanks Keith, I will reply to your private email shortly with some ideas and next steps. Cheers / Bal On 16 September 2016 at 09:05, Keith White wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for the replies. > > Balinder - I've sent you a private email about this. > > Best regards > > Keith White > Synergist Express

Re: Deployment of Vertical Market 4D App in AWS Cloud

+ 1 to the message from Paul Dennis. Let's break the entire process down into different steps manually first and then Automate everything: - Setup a new server for the client when the client sign up for an account with us (in this case Synergist - Perhaps triggered by an online registration form w

Re: Deployment of Vertical Market 4D App in AWS Cloud

servers are completed hidden from public domain which makes this approach secure too. One Linux box with NGINX per region and separate EC2 windows box per client seems like the best way forward in my opinion. Cheers / Bal On 16 September 2016 at 11:37, Balinder Walia wrote: > + 1 to the mess

Standard Sub Select SQL query not working in 4D as expected

Guys, I have a SQL sub select query which works in SQLite DB and I have cloned the same DB into 4Dv15.2 DB as the following structure shows: http://www.4d.com/dtd/2007/base.dtd"; > http://www.4d.com/dtd/2007/base.dtd"; > When run the same query in 4D SQ

Re: Refactoring and Testing

Jody/Kirk, I have been following this thread closely, and I am really enthusiastic about providing value to my clients as they trust us with their businesses. Though it is harder to keep software products simple and maintained, the quality products have longer life cycle (Avoiding software entrop

Re: Anyone successfully running Sierra on their development machine

I am running Sierra just now. 4Dv13 is on virtual box running windows 7 on my mac anyway so I can just use that. I will try 4Dv15 and comment soon. Cheers / Balinder On 6 October 2016 at 20:17, Tom Dillon wrote: > I'm running Sierra with no real issues. The form editor was really slow at > firs

Re: Anyone successfully running Sierra on their development machine

Hi Jeremy, As I said I use Virtual box - https://www.virtualbox.org I tend to find free open source software is better in quality these days. So go with open source...and it's actually free! Cheers On 7 October 2016 at 11:29, Ortwin Zillgen wrote: > > I know we had an early thread on this sub

Re: Anyone successfully running Sierra on their development machine

Another reason is actually Vagrant comes with support for Virtualbox out of the box - https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/virtualbox/ On 7 October 2016 at 12:46, Balinder Walia wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > As I said I use Virtual box - https://www.virtualbox.org > > I tend to find f

Re: Sharepoint vs 4D...

Robert, SharePoint is Document Management System which can be linked with MS Office Apps. It has it's own storage and I think it using SQL. It high configurable but still SharePoint is not a tool for writing Business Database Applications on it's own. Be upfront and tell them that many have tried

Re: Apple Agrees with 4D !

Hybrid is the way to go. If possible get 4D single user app to talk to server via JSON and then use the power of desktop app optionally data should stay in cloud or local... Balinder On Friday, 28 October 2016, Sujit Shah wrote: > I like the drag and drop controls to the touch bar. Would have p

Re: How do you zip a directory using 4D?

+1 to 7-zip plugin and component by Miyako. On Tuesday, 1 November 2016, Steve Makohin wrote: > Thank you to all who responded to this. > > -Steve > > > ** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.h

Re: Potential SSL Security Issue related to HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)

One quick solution would be to put NGINX at front. Cheers On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 at 22:40, Michael McCall wrote: > I appreciated the assistance with the cipher list issue last week. Our > client has an additional question regarding our 4D Stand Alone - Web Server > enabled application. Below is the

AWS Storage Gateway for Storing Images and 4DD file

Hey 4Dears, I have a single user 4D application - it's very simple products catalog to produce online e-commerce price list in JSON format. It is deployed at a Furniture wholesale business. The issues is we have lot of images high res low res and storage and 4D data back up managements onsite is

Re: AWS Storage Gateway for Storing Images and 4DD file

I shall watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmjDfz-MIZE in the meantime... On 13 December 2016 at 20:17, Balinder Walia wrote: > Hey 4Dears, > > I have a single user 4D application - it's very simple products catalog to > produce online e-commerce price list in J

Re: AWS Storage Gateway for Storing Images and 4DD file

on windows 7? If this works I presume I can do the same when I move the app to server / client on windows 2012 server using same mounted AWS Storage Gateway to store 4DD ? Makes sense? Cheers On 13 December 2016 at 20:20, Balinder Walia wrote: > I shall watch this https://www.youtube.com/watc

Re: AWS Storage Gateway for Storing Images and 4DD file

Hi Tim, Many thanks for the suggestions and quick reply. I wonder how other developers use SCSI AWS storage gateways to host live MySQL then? I think the way AWS storage gateways mounted as iSCSI devices should work. So customer has a s3 volume setup in a local machine at the premises which is lik

Re: AWS Storage Gateway for Storing Images and 4DD file

Thanks Bruno and Tom for your valuable advice. What I am trying to do is use a local SSD drive in the PC setup in a way that it works as a *Cached version of massive s3 volume - a bit like RAID 1 but one drive is local and another is s3 special volume which is always mirrored with special RAID con

Re: AWS Storage Gateway for Storing Images and 4DD file

Thanks for shedding some light on this topic. Much appreciated! In case of network is down I would imagine the system should work like the way Dropbox works. It keeps track of changes since last sync and then sync back up-to-date when network comes back up...in theory at least. BW ***

Re: D3.js Wow. Some notes on SVG, D3, and data visualizations

Hi David, Great to see this post about D3.js _ I am a fan of D3.js :-) I have been using D3 based JS lib called plotly https://plot.ly/javascript/ to visualise JSON data from 4D/MongoDB/CSVs/JSON in few projects now. Here are a few prototypes I produced in node.js: http://plotly.tenthmatrix.co.uk

Re: D3.js Wow. Some notes on SVG, D3, and data visualizations

Thanks David, Yeah sure It should be possible for me to do *Plot.ly and 4D* presentation with working demo. Cheers On 14 January 2017 at 23:15, David Adams wrote: > Balindar, > > Your stuff looks sharp! I'm excited to hear that you'll be releasing some > of your examples. > > I'm embarassed to

Re: How to get the IP address of the 4D web server within 4D?

Kirk, You want *Get database parameter *command. The selector 16 (IP Address to listen) lets you get the IP address on which the 4D Web server receives HTTP requests. The following example splits up the hexadecimal value: *C_LONGINT *($a;$b;$c;$d)

Re: How to get the IP address of the 4D web server within 4D?

7;set' a particular IP to listen so both of them return zero. > > The server is actually available at 192.168.1.3 or localhost. > > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Balinder Walia > > wrote: > > > > > You want *Get database paramet

Re: Website development path

Lee/Keith, We have had this dilemma for long now. Enough is enough! We just have to make a start to solve this very problem. I am thinking to release open source component soon which will allow any developer to drop the component in any 4D project and with little configuration (no coding) get da

Running 4D into a Docker container and shipping it

Hi 4Dears, Another crazy question again: Is anyone running 4D in a Docker container or tried it? So Let's say we have a typical 4D server running as a service in a VM such as Virtual Box, and then running windows server in VM in a Docker... 4D->Windows->Virtual Box->Docker container. I think it

Re: Running 4D into a Docker container and shipping it

Hey Paul, Thanks for your response. Yes one issue is 4D uses vm type *hyperv*. I am more interested in AWS and they use *Xen*. What will be really good if we can ship 4D apps as Docker images for Mac and Windows and users just run get the latest version of the apps via Docker. Another issue would

Re: SagePay Direct from 4D

Hi David, I saw your private email too. Sorry could not reply before. I actually have seen this error while connecting to online urls in general and mostly due to invalid HTTP status or responses...Best is to first try to connect via curl or something to find if it is working in a plain terminal e

Re: SagePay Direct from 4D [Solved]

it failed. > > Much thanks go to Balinder Walia who sorted it out in about 30 seconds. He > has years of experience in both 4D and web programming and is very helpful. > > > >Has anybody implemented card payments using the Direct version of SagePay. > (They have a >product

Re: 4D Summit

I did book it already! Thanks / Bal. On 20 March 2018 at 11:43, Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > I believe I did, I'll check > THanks > > > Hi, > > > > I’m sitting in in the master class by Laurent in Paris. > > > > Absolutely fantastic, if you haven’t booked for Washingt

Re: Mirror and backup

Chuck, Backup are not really required when mirroring is setup and working correctly. Monitor if mirroring fails for any reason...restart from square one. Mirror is your back up. If you want to BACKUP on mirror 4D will wait until Integrate log process is finished before starting Back up process and

Re: RIP Sujit Shah

RIP Sujit sad news! On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 at 12:51, Milan Adamov via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > RIP, it was his birthday just few weeks ago. > > Milan > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Jun 22, 2018, at 13:13, Wayne Stewart via 4D_Tech < > 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I

Re: v17 ready for prime time?

Thanks guys I also have a new project and 4Dv17 would be perfect. This type of feedback bad or good is very helpful. Regards Bal On 17 July 2018 at 10:29, Tilman Haerdle via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > We use v17 on a new project and didn't run into any issues at all. On the > contra

Re: Mac OS 10.14 Mojave and 4D 15

I have a business management system which has pretty standard 4D native forms, Listbox views, 4D web areas which loads HTML navigation, and NTK web server and I have various issues running 4D v15 on Mac Mojave. Crashing for a start, Overall app execution was really slow. I have upgraded to v16 and

Re: Mac OS 10.14 Mojave and 4D 15

+1 to Virtualbox, it is highly configurable and can be automated using simple config files...to setup perfect dev environment, networking etc. Balinder On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 at 22:17, JOHN BAUGHMAN via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > Kirk, > > I highly recommend Oracle VirtualBox

Re: SSL Certificates - GoDaddy

Letsencrypt.org is the way to go. Free open source, updates automatically so forget about renewals. Install once, set auto renewals using crontab or 4D hosuekeeping/daemon process - on Mac / Linux / Cygwin on windows. There is Letsencrypt Win-Simple for IIS which should work for 4D too: https://web

Re: SSL Certificates - GoDaddy

Randy you're welcome. Letsencrypt auto renewals works great. Also GoDaddy https:// website is down and it says: Access DeniedYou don't have permission to access "http://www.godaddy.com/"; on this server. Reference #18.7157dd58.1487372136.fb3e3ec Try: https://www.godaddy.com It's NoDaddy!!! On

Re: SSL Certificates - GoDaddy

I already did clear my browser's cache. On 17 February 2017 at 23:21, npdennis wrote: > Also GoDaddy https:// website is down and it says: > > Access DeniedYou don't have permission to access "http://www.godaddy.com/"; > on this server. > > Reference #18.7157dd58.1487372136.fb3e3ec > Try: https:

Re: Going Paperless with 4D...

It should be possible but depends on the bill suppliers and if there online systems allow bills downloaded via APIs or not? You could use oAuth and or HTTP Get command to download bills and do whatever you wish to with them in 4D. Other way is emails - as Many suppliers email bills as PDFs so you c

Re: PHP EXECUTE in a loop

Call ON ERR CALL and if PHP cgi error just call PHP Exec again...basically wait for a bit until you stop getting error and try again. I miss the Try command in 4D :) On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 at 16:30, Patrick Emanuel via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > Before call any 'PHP EXECUTE', I used t

Re: redis, anyone?

Justin, Did you find anyone with 4D-Redis expertise? Alternatives I am thinking to find at least a plugin / component to talk to Redis? API based solution to talk to Redis via HTTP/REST is also my last option... Cheers / Balinder On 20 October 2015 at 23:52, Justin Leavens wrote: > Anyone had

Re: Facial Detection/recognition

Here you go: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14QuAxMDfuwBmoriAgTngV2A9vuXIpxQLQyEjf5yYZv8/edit?usp=sharing Let me know if you want more methods :-) It thinks I am Bill Clinton (at least my eyes are like him)...Perfect excuse if Monica Lewinsky stood in front of me. Hi Monica, it's Bal Clinton

Re: 4D db -> SAAS

Don, Easiest and quickest is what chuck recommends if possible. Of course if customer ok to have shared db as long as it is secure they should not care. Rewriting is eventually the best thing and should be your goal as in node.js express and heroku etc. Infra cost is a lot less and 4D doesn't run

Re: [OFF] PCI/DSS compliance

...and Equifax data breach included credit card numbers too. On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 at 20:17, Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > I find the idea that it is necessary to implement PCI ironic, when > Equifax just lost the SS numbers, and other personal data of over > 140,000,000 p

Re: 4D World Tour 2019 - Cool new stuff are coming your way

+1 I will be going to either London or Manchester. Cheers / Balinder On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 12:35, Paul Dennis via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > It sounds very good and I just try to sign up for the two day event in > London. Your shopping cart experience leaves something to be desire

4D interaction with Airbnb / Booking.com API

Hi anyone got experience of linking 4D with Airbnb and booking.com via API to upload properties and apartments and download financial bookings? Please contact me offline for more detailed chat on on Skype or slack... Thanks Balinder *