#Contest

Hey Developers,

We are super excited to invite you all to the new InterSystems online programming contest focused on Java and its derivatives! 

🏆 InterSystems Java Programming Contest 🏆

Duration: November 13 - December 3, 2023

Prize pool: $14,000

There are situations when your only access to a server is using a web browser,
and there is just no chance of a Terminal or Console access.
The Online Demo Server is such a case.

So you have WebTerminal. That's fine for ObjectScript and Embedded Python.

But my demo is straight Java. And is interactive.
$ZF(-100...) is some aproach. But it's rater batch-oriented and not interactive.
@Enrico Parisi  presented a nice extension to WebTerminal recently.
It's close to my own packageWebCommand that I presented a year ago.

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Hey Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems Python Programming Contest 2023! 

Thank you to all our amazing participants who submitted 15 applications🔥 

Hi Community,

Let's meet together at the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems Python Programming Contest 2023– a great opportunity to have a discussion with the InterSystems Experts team as well as our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Friday, September 29, 10 am EDT | 4 pm CEST

Hi Developers!

Here is the bonus results for the applications in InterSystems Python Programming Contest 2023:

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our InterSystems Python Programming Contest 2023:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Hello developers!

We are holding the first technical article contest on Japan's InterSystems Developer Community!

The first contest is a technical document writing contest, and you can submit any content related to the InterSystems IRIS/InterSystems IRIS for Health. (The article must be in Japanese.)

✍ InterSystems Japan Technical Document Writing Contest: Articles related to IRIS ✍

🎁 Participation prize: There will be a participation prize for everyone who submits an article for the contest.

🏆 Special prize: Authors of three selected works will receive special prizes.

Entering the contest is easy! Please post an article related to IRIS on the developer community during the period from Wednesday, September 6, 2023 to Monday, November 6, 2023.

Hi Developers!

We are pleased to announce the launch of the
🏆2nd Tech Article Contest on Chinese Developer Community🏆

From September 19 to November 24, 2023 (Beijing Time), we welcome you to contribute articles related to InterSystems technology.

🎁 Prize for Everyone: A special prize pack for each author who takes part in the contest.

🏆 Main Prizes: Apple AirPods Pro; Osprey Proxima Backpack; Home Office Pro Lap Desk; Sound Machine with Wireless Charger; JBL Pulse 5 Bluetooth Speaker; Sound Machine with Wireless Charger; Hammock InterSystems; Light Up Your Logo Charging Pad; InterSystems Developer Community Blanket

Hi Developers!

Hi Developers,

We are pleased to invite you all to the new InterSystems online programming contest focused on Python! 

🏆 InterSystems Python Programming Contest 🏆

Duration: September 4 - 24, 2023

Prize pool: $14,000

In a previous question, I have illustrated a few problems using Embedded Python
interactively as you would do from Docker console or IRIS terminal.
Investigation of the causes brought a rather clear picture. It's a classic impedance mismatch

• While consoles act rather relaxed WebTerminal is very precise in output presentation line terminators from (Embedded) Python's print() function are typically <LF>  0x0A  $C(10) And WebTerminal does exactly this while eg. my console in Docker also does a <CR> und cover. So a sequence of print() looks like a scale
• Compared to ObjectScript where a WRTE !

Hi Community!

Our 2nd InterSystems Idea-A-Thon has come to an end and resulted in 29 brilliant ideas dedicated to the topic of the contest:

💡 Run solutions fast, safe, and green with InterSystems IRIS 💡 

Thank you all for your ideas, comments, and votes!

And now it's time to announce the winners...

Hey everyone, 

Here we are again. New year, new contest, new project, old reasons.

Triple Slash is in the house!

SQLBuilder is a flexible and powerful SQL query string builder for InterSystems IRIS,

With SQLBuilder you have nice and clean object oriented methods, instead of having to use concatenation and substituition to generate dynamic queries.

A Dynamic SQL without SQLBuilder

A Dynamic SQL with SQLBuilder

If you like it, don't forget to vote in the IRIS Programming Contest

Hi Community,

Let's meet together at the online meetup with the winners of the Grand Prix Contest 2023– a great opportunity to have a discussion with the InterSystems Experts team as well as our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Thursday, July 13, 11 am EDT | 5 pm CEST

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the annual InterSystems Grand Prix Contest 2023! 

Thank you to all our amazing participants who submitted 20 applications 🔥 

Hi Developers!

Here is the bonus results for the applications in InterSystems Grand Prix Programming Contest 2023:

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our InterSystems Grand Prix Contest 2023:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

VS Code has a powerful snippets capability, and its Marketplace offers a way for developers to publish their snippets so others can use them. However, publishing on Marketplace takes some effort and snippets targeting InterSystems coders will realistically only be of interest to a very small number of Marketplace visitors.

This inspired me to create oex-vscode-snippets-template, a GitHub template for creating repositories dedicated to publishing code snippets for InterSystems devs.

Hi colleagues!

InterSystems Grand Prix 2023 unites all the key features of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform!

Thus we invite you to use the following features and collect additional technical bonuses that will help you to win the prize!

Here we go!

• LLM AI or LangChain usage: Chat GPT, Bard and others - 6
• InterSystems FHIR SQL Builder- 5
• InterSystems FHIR - 3
• IntegratedML - 4
• Native API - 3
• Embedded Python - 4
• Interoperability - 3
• Production EXtension(PEX) - 2
• Adaptive Analytics (AtScale) Cubes usage - 3
• Tableau, PowerBI, Logi usage - 3
• InterSystems IRIS BI - 3 
• Columnar Index Usage - 1
• Docker container usage - 2 
• ZPM Package deployment - 2
• Online Demo - 2
• Unit Testing - 2
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• First Article on Developer Community - 2
• Second Article On DC - 1
• Code Quality pass - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3
• Video on YouTube - 3

Hi Developers,

The annual competition for InterSystems IRIS developers is fast approaching! 

We're super excited to invite you all to join the Grand Prix contest for building open-source solutions using InterSystems IRIS data platform! 

🏆 InterSystems Grand Prix Contest 2023 🏆

Duration: June 12th - July 9th, 2023

Prize pool: $26,000

Strap on this jetpack to boost your developer experience in Visual Studio Code.

DX Jetpack for VS Code was my entry for the 2023 Developer Tools Contest, where it achieved 2nd place in the Experts vote and 5th place in the Community vote. It is an extension pack for VS Code, bundling three entirely new extensions created by me, plus a couple that we at George James Software published previously.

The new extensions are:

• gj :: codeSpex
• ObjectScript Class View
• ServerDiff

If you're reluctant to install DX Jetpack right away, why not try it using a dev container? In the dev container is an InterSystems IRIS Community environment augmented with InterSystems Package Manager (IPM) and the isc-codetidy package.

How many times do we find ourselves rebuilding, copy-pasting, adapting, Business Operations that make calls to REST services, and only adapting one or another part of the final code. This is annoying a lot. To resolve this our inconvenience, I present to you Interopway REST, a set of classes (a micro framework) that allows us to just add Business Operation to Production and use it.

The project is hosted on github, https://github.com/cristianojs/interopway_rest, it is open and we are accepting collaborations.

Let's understand how this works.

Hi Community,

Let's meet together at the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest– a great opportunity to have a discussion with the InterSystems Experts team as well as our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Thursday, April 27, 12 pm EDT | 6 pm CEST

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest! 

Thank you to all our amazing participants who submitted 8 applications 🔥 

Hi Developers!

Here is the score of technical bonuses for participants' applications in the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2023!

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Here're the technology bonuses for the InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest 2023 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• IntegratedML usage
• Online Demo
• Article on Developer Community
• The second article on Developer Community
• Video on YouTube
• First Time Contribution
• Community Idea Implementation
• IRIS Cloud SQL Survey

See the details below.

Hey Developers,

We'd like to invite you to join our next contest dedicated to creating AI/ML solutions that use Cloud SQL to work with data: 

🏆 InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest 🏆

Duration: April 3 - April 23, 2023

Prize pool: $13,500