Hi Community!

We are excited to announce the first French technical article writing contest!

✍️ Technical Article Contest ✍️

This is the perfect opportunity for all InterSystems technology enthusiasts to share their knowledge and showcase their writing skills. No matter your experience level, everyone is welcome to participate. Articles can cover a wide range of technical topics related to InterSystems products or services. So, let your creativity and expertise run wild!

📅 Contest period: September 2-29, 2024

🎁 Gifts for all: a special gift is prepared for each participant!

🏅 Prizes for the authors of the best articles

Hey Community,

Here are the bonuses for participants' articles that take part in the InterSystems Technical Article Contest 2025:

Hi Community,

We have some exciting news! It's time for the next InterSystems writing competition:

✍️ InterSystems Technical Article Contest 2025 ✍️

Write an article on any topic related to the InterSystems products and services.

🎁 Prizes for everyone: A special prize for each author participating in the competition!

Introduction to running WSGI in IRIS

With IRIS 2024+, users can host WSGI applications using Security.Applications. As an example, a user can do something like this

Minimum working example

Hey Community,

Our huge thanks to everyone who participated in the Advent of Code 2024! We're pleased to present the participants and distribute all the prizes. 

Our congratulations to these developers who have finished all tasks: 

🥇 @Abdul Manan (w/ repo)

🥈 @Yuval Golan (w/ repo)

Here's the final InterSystems leaderboard:

Hi Community,

The Season's holidays are fast approaching, and it's time to get ready for them! Join the Advent of Code 2024 with InterSystems and engage in our ObjectScript challenge!

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest! 

Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 13 applications 🔥 

Now it's time to announce the winners!
 

Hi Developers,

🎄 Christmas cheer is in the air, and we decided to try something new for the last programming contest of the year. Welcome the 

🏆 Bringing Ideas to Reality Contest 🏆

Submit an application that implements an idea from the InterSystems Ideas Portal that has statuses Community Opportunity or Future Consideration and requires doing the actual programming 😉

Duration: December 2 - 22, 2024

Prize pool: $14,000

Hi Developers!

We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" 2024 Contest!

See the results below.

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest 2024 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• IRIS Vector Search usage -3
• Embedded Python usage -3
• InterSystems Interoperability - 3
• InterSystems IRIS BI - 3
• VSCode Plugin - 3
• FHIR Tools - 3
• Docker container usage -2 
• ZPM Package Deployment - 2
• Online Demo -2 
• Find a bug in Embedded Python - 2
• Code Quality pass - 1
• Article on Developer Community - 2
• The second article on Developer Community - 1
• Video on YouTube - 3
• YouTube Short - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3

See the details below.

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite you all to the upcoming kick-off Webinar for InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest!

During the webinar, our speakers will explore the Community Opportunity Ideas from the InterSystems Ideas Portal, which are the topics of this programming contest. They will show how to develop, build, and deploy applications using the InterSystems IRIS data platform.

Date & Time: Monday, December 2 – 10:00 am EST | 4:00 pm CET  

Hi Community,

We'd like to thank the participants of our first InterSystems Tech Video Challenge, who created nine interesting videos, wrote five articles, and uploaded two applications. And now it's time to announce the winners!

Let's meet the winners and look at their videos:

Hi Community,

A huge thank you to everyone who joined our InterSystems Tech Video Challenge! We’re thrilled to have all these interesting videos.

Don’t forget to check out the bonuses for the videos below:

Hey Community,

We’re excited to introduce a whole new way for you to showcase your creativity and skills! This time, we’re inviting you to participate in our first-ever video challenge:

📹 InterSystems Tech Video Challenge 📹

Submit a video on any topic related to InterSystems IRIS products or services from October 21 - November 10, 2024.

🎁 Gifts for everyone + main prizes!

Hello, Community!

It's time for the next InterSystems Developer Community contest!

✍️ InterSystems IRIS Technical Tutorial Contest ✍️

Create a Technical Tutorial** that can be considered a guide for InterSystems IRIS programmers of any level: beginner/intermediate/senior, from October 14th to November 24th. The tutorial can be in the form of an Article with text and images and/or a Demonstration Video.

Enjoy and let your creativity flow! Show how easy and fun it can be to create solutions with InterSystems IRIS.

🎁 Prizes for everyone: A special prize for each author participating in the competition!

Hi Community,

Let's meet at the online meetup with the winners of the Developer Tools Contest. It's a great opportunity to chat with the InterSystems Experts team and our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Monday, October 7, 10:00 am EDT | 4:00 pm CEST

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the Developer Tools Contest! 

Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 17 applications 🔥 

Now it's time to announce the winners!

Hi Developers!

We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the DevTools Contest 2024!

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our Developer Tools Contest:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Hi Developers,

We'd like to invite you to join our next contest dedicated to creating useful tools to make your fellow developers' lives easier: 

🏆 InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 🏆

Submit an application that helps to develop faster, contributes more qualitative code, and helps in testing, deployment, support, or monitoring of your solution with InterSystems IRIS.

Duration: September 9 - 29, 2024

Prize pool: $14,000

Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2024 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• IRIS Vector Search usage -3
• Embedded Python usage -3
• WSGI Web Apps - 2
• InterSystems Interoperability - 3
• InterSystems IRIS BI - 3
• VSCode Plugin - 3
• FHIR Tools - 3
• Docker container usage -2 
• ZPM Package Deployment - 2
• Online Demo -2 
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• Find a bug in Embedded Python - 2
• Code Quality pass - 1
• Article on Developer Community - 2
• The second article on Developer Community - 1
• Video on YouTube - 3
• YouTube Short - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3

See the details below.

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite you all to the upcoming kick-off webinar for the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2024!

During the webinar, you will discover the exciting challenges and opportunities that await IRIS enthusiasts in this contest. We'll discuss the topics we expect from participants and show you how to develop, build, and deploy applications using the InterSystems IRIS data platform.

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 10 – 12:30 pm EDT | 6:30 pm CEST  

Hello developers!

Last year, for the first time, we held the Technical Article Contest on Japan's InterSystems Developer Community, and 📣 we are holding it again this year!📣

The topics are the same as last year, and you can submit any content related to InterSystems IRIS／InterSystems IRIS for Health.

🖋 InterSystems Japan Technical Article Contest – 2024: Articles related to IRIS 🖋

🎁 Participation prize：Everyone who submits a post will receive our👚Developer Community’s original T-shirt👕!！

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

Updated on 30/8: Prize information added!Please check it out!👇

Hi Community,

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

Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 9 applications 🔥 

Hi Community,

Let's meet at the online meetup with the winners of the Python Contest. It's a great opportunity to chat with the InterSystems Experts team and our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Thursday, August 8, 12 pm EDT | 6 pm CEST

Hi Community,

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

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Hi Contestansts!

Here are the results of bonuses gathered by applications in InterSystems Python Programming Contest 2024!

Hi Community,

We are pleased to invite you to the next InterSystems online programming contest, which is focused on Python!

🏆 InterSystems Python Contest 🏆

Duration: July 15 - August 4, 2024

Prize pool: $14,000

Hi Developers!

Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems Python Contest 2024 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• IRIS Vector Search usage - 3
• Python Pex Interoperability - 3
• Python in BPL - 2
• WSGI Web Apps - 2
• Python libs: sqlalchemy and dbt - 2
• LLM AI or LangChain usage: Chat GPT, Bard and others - 3
• NoObjectScriptLine - 3
• Hugginface - 2
• Docker container usage - 2 
• ZPM Package deployment - 2
• Online Demo - 2
• Implement InterSystems Community Idea - 4
• Find a bug in Embedded Python - 2
• First Article on Developer Community - 2
• Second Article On DC - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3
• Video on YouTube - 3
• YouTube Short - 1

See the details below.