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A Crowded LLM Field: Making Sense of AI Tooling
AI and the Illusion of Mastery: Software Engineering Skills in the Age of LLMs
AWS Free Tier After One Year—Cost Breakdown
Key Insights: “Which Economic Tasks Are Performed with AI?”
The Unreasonable Ones: Humanity’s Role in an AI World
How I Use AI Tools Everyday: Leveraging Claude and ChatGPT
Book Excerpt: ‘The Bedrock of Generative AI’
Hosting Writebook on AWS
AWS S3 Website Pretty URLs (Solved with CloudFront Functions)
Daily Standup: The Status Update Trap
ChatGPT-4o Initial impressions on latest model (with citations)
Finding llm training data limits
Search Safari history by timestamp
What's in your software product?
Modified({fieldname}) no longer works
Keep code base clean – avoid unnecessary variable assignments
Embedding CSS file in html e-mail
Porting DATE_TO_CHAR function to PostgreSQL
Reverse PostgreSQL into model with undefined data types
Pass object association by reference via & to save resources
Creating fields via SQL vs creating fields via structure editor
Allow NULL values in 4DB engine
Automatic cron backup of PostgreSQL database
Use 4D header macro to identify code blocks
Generic 4D error catcher
Clear empty object methods to avoid developer confusion
Java string comparison
4D ‘blank’ user locked record
Encapsulate form/object methods with form event case statements
Toggle off 4D form events for easier debugging
4D Forms to have layers instead of limited number of ‘views’
Use CAST in 4D volatile SQL statements
Compiler warning on possible loss of precision
Scenarios listed in Operator view are same as Designer view
Error when purging log unable to extend tablespace ‘UNDO’
This month’s date range
4D Linux ODBC Driver
4D DSN-less ODBC connection
MySQL command options
Return stack size information with PROCESS PROPERTIES
4D Delay Process should not accept negative numbers
4D text interpolation
4D Log Event command and log level importance
4D record locked in read only mode
Get last month’s date range in PHP
4D Execute on sever command vs method checkbox differences
4D based mirror component – take two
Count SQL users command
ODBC Tracing on Windows 2003 server
4D Full variable introspection in debugger window
4D unary operator (read i++)
4D Database timestamp makes no sense
Epoch/Unix timestamp command
Ruby Rakefile auto executes includes
WordPress engine fail on embeded smilies in source
Active record find_each in batches
svn: Can’t move /.svn/tmp/entries: Operation not permitted
Request Tracker to Redmine Migration
Rubies for the holidays
SVN client/server version mismatch
svn: Argument list too long
Set enterable for list box object not just columns
HTML Structure export blurs the line on fields and it’s comments
Method editor search with wrap option
Define constants without a plugin
4Dv11.8 drag and drop with list boxes header gotcha
Windows get CPU usage command
Auto execute psql commands via batch file
Import SQL files via psql command line scheduled task
New 4D variable data type – float
Currently displayed form command
New Database event – On Transaction Validate
Merge command/control down key functions
Validate 4d string data with regex by data type
Is record number valid – command
SVN Windows and ‘._’ Apple double files
Postgres dynamic trigger — mirroring
Infinite is a real number in 4D
Exception handling – try/catch/finally
Mirroring 4D data to another database
4th Dimension v11
SQL Based view
Flex 4.0 drag-and-drop with skins
flex 4 compile error “‘mxmlContent’ must be contiguous”
3.5 to 4.0 Flex SDK upgrade
LDAP Authentication
MySQL Stored Routines