#Open Exchange

Voting time! 

Let's cast your votes for the best applications in the InterSystems Python Contest:

🔥 Vote for your favorites 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Hey Developers,

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

🏆 InterSystems Python Contest 🏆

Duration: February 7 - 27, 2022

In prizes: $10K - more prizes included!

If one of your packages on OEX receives a review you get notified by OEX only own YOUR package.  The rating reflects the experience of the reviewer with the status found at the time of review.  It is kind of a snapshot and might have changed meanwhile.   
New with this edition:
Reviews by other members of the community are marked by * in the last column.

Hi Developers!

Suppose you want to create your ObjectScript library to be distributed via ObjectScript Package Manager. And there is an obvious question: what is the naming convention on the packages and class names?

Naming packages and classnames

There is already some accepted practice with package managers and we will follow the best practices in this field. The most reasonable and simple looks the approach with having company as the first package then project as the second and then classes and subpackages of the project.

The folder structure in this case looks like:

If one of your packages on OEX receives a review you get notified by OEX only on YOUR package.
It reflects my experience with the status I found at the time of my review.
It is kind of a snapshot and might have changed meanwhile.

Hey Community,

More than 500 applications are already on the InterSystems Open Exchange. 

It's time to announce the best developers and the most downloaded apps for 2021!

Let's take a closer look at our heroes and remarkable apps:

Hi Community,

We are pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming InterSystems Python Contest Kick-off Webinar! The topic of this webinar is dedicated to the Python contest.

In this webinar, we’ll present two templates to start working with Embedded Python :

1. What is Embedded Python and Jupyter;
2. Embedded Python with Interoperability (PEX hacked to use Embedded Python).

As always, our experts will answer the questions on how to develop, build, and deploy Python solutions using InterSystems IRIS.

Date & Time: Monday, February 7 – 12:00 PM EDT

Speakers:
🗣 @Guillaume Rongier, InterSystems Sales Engineer  
🗣 @Bob Kuszewski, InterSystems Product Manager
🗣 @Evgeny Shvarov, InterSystems Developer Ecosystem Manager

Hey Developers! Here is a digest of new solutions and applications submitted to the InterSystems Open Exchange in January 2022.

Hi Community,

Let's meet together at the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems Datasets contest!

You'll have an opportunity to have a discussion with InterSystems Product Managers on new LOAD DATA functionality, Q&A on datasets, etc. Our winners' demo included!  

Date & Time: Thursday, January 20, 2022 – 11:00 EDT

Hey Developers,

It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems Datasets contest! Are you ready?

A storm of applause goes to these developers and their applications:

For the demonstration, a exchange-rate-cbrf-ui project was made and deployed an online demonstration in the cloud.

For authorization, you can use the account superuser with password SYS

For this project, I used the AdminLTE template, which I have already used in my projects more than once, for example info-chest or access-matrix.

On the main page, you can get a table of exchange rates...

... or download data from the official website of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

Two more pages have been created for demonstration purposes.

Hey Developers,

Let the voting week begin! It's time to cast your votes for the best applications in the Datasets Contest!

🔥 You decide: VOTE HERE 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Hi, everyone!

I want to share a personal project that started with a simple request at work: 

Is it's possible to know how many Caché licenses we are using? 

Reading other articles here in the community, I found this excellent article by  David Loveluck 

APM - Using the Caché History Monitor
https://community.intersystems.com/post/apm-using-cach%C3%A9-history-monitor

So, using David's article, I started using Caché History Monitor and to show all that information. 

When facing the question: Which cool tech should I use? 

Hey Developers,

With the release of InterSystems IRIS 2021.2 Preview and all-new LOAD DATA functionality, we'd like to put it to the test with the new DATASETS contest! 

🏆 InterSystems Datasets Contest 🏆

Duration: December 27 - January 16, 2022

In prizes: $9,450

Hi Developers

As you know it's very easy to publish a package to the Developers Community registry. 

But how to test it before publishing?  How to be sure that everything you introduced into module.xml is installed properly?

See the step-by-step instruction below!

Hey Developers! Here is a digest of new solutions and applications submitted to the InterSystems Open Exchange in December 2021.

Hi Community,

We are pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming InterSystems Datasets Contest Kick-off Webinar! The topic of this webinar is dedicated to the Datasets contest.

In this webinar, we’ll do a quick tour of the new LOAD DATA feature, also chime in on packaging global data or file data with ZPM, and run a data-generation script as part of a method in the zpm install. 

As always, our experts will answer the questions on how to develop, build, and deploy datasets using InterSystems IRIS.

Date & Time: Tuesday, December 28 – 10:00 AM EDT

Speakers:  
🗣 @Benjamin De Boe, Product Manager, InterSystems  
🗣 @Evgeny Shvarov, InterSystems Developer Ecosystem Manager

If one of your packages on OEX receives a review you get notified by OEX only on YOUR package.
​​​So @Evgeny Shvarov  suggested publishing my monthly summary of my reviews here in DC.
It reflects my experience with the status I found at the time of my review.

Just wanted to give visibility to a place in GitHub where everybody can publish Enhancement Requests, Ideas and Innovations that would be great to have in our InterSystems Technology ecosystem.

If you want to add your enhancement request, or take a look and see if there is already there and vote for it, contribute, etc..., click on this link. That doesn't guarantee that Product Management decides to go on that direction, they have to balance many things to decide our products roadmap, but having the direct input from our Community is invaluable.

Come on! Go for it and make your suggestions!

What about having your IRIS REST APIs scanned every push you did and being reported on possible vulnerabilities? This is what I am going to show you in this article.

Recently, we had the Security Contest with amazing applications and examples showing how to improve security on your IRIS solutions. One of such examples was the zap-api-scan-sample, made by me and my colleague Henrique Dias. Our application shows how to use the OWASP ZAP API scanner to perform security tests on your REST APIs OpenAPI definitions generated by IRIS.

Hi Community,

We're pleased to invite you to the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems Security contest!

Date & Time: Friday, December 10, 2021 – 11:00 EDT

What awaits you at this virtual meetup? 

• Our winners' bios.
• Short demos on their applications.
• An open discussion about technologies being used. Q&A. Plans for the next contests.

Hey Developers,

The InterSystems Security contest is over. Thank you all for participating in our coding competition!

So it's time to announce the winners! 

A storm of applause goes to these developers and their applications:

Hey Community,

We want to hear from you! Give us your feedback on the past InterSystems Security programming contest! Please answer some questions to help us improve our contests.

👉 Quick survey: InterSystems Security Programming Contest Survey

Hey Developers,

This week is a voting week for the InterSystems Security contest! So, it's time to give your vote to the best solutions built with InterSystems IRIS.

🔥 You decide: VOTING IS HERE 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

If one of your packages on OEX receives a review you get notified by OEX only on YOUR package.
​​​So @Evgeny Shvarov  suggested publishing my monthly summary of my reviews here in DC.
It reflects my experience with the status I found at the time of my review.

Security wanted!

Welcome to the next InterSystems online programming competition: 

🏆 InterSystems Security Contest 🏆

Duration: November 15 - December 05, 2021

Prizes: $9,450 in prizes!

I'm running reviews on Open Exchange since April 2021.
I have seen excellent packages, good ones, and some that made me feel just lost.
And I started to recognize contributors also by their style and organization of the submitted packages.

Hi Community,

We are pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming InterSystems Security Contest Kick-off Webinar! The topic of this webinar is dedicated to the Security contest.

We’ll discuss the aspects of Security Model implementation in InterSystems IRIS, the requirements, and what do we expect from participants of the Security contest. Also, we’ll answer all the questions related to the contest!

Date & Time: Monday, November 15 — 12:00 AM EDT

Speakers:  
🗣 @Andreas Dieckow, Principal Product Manager at InterSystems Corporation
🗣 @Evgeny Shvarov, InterSystems Developer Ecosystem Manager