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Hi, Community!

Have you thought about becoming a subject matter expert (SME) for InterSystems Certification?

The benefits are many—but you can hear directly from five members of our SME community as they discuss:

How did participating in exam development boost your own expertise?

Hello Everyone,
I’m excited to join the InterSystems Developer Community, a place where IRIS, Caché, Ensemble, HealthShare, and all things InterSystems come alive through shared knowledge and collaboration.

A little about me,

• I’m passionate about building efficient, integration-driven solutions, exploring ObjectScript, working with REST APIs, and diving into analytics tools like DeepSee and IntegratedML.
• I’m here to learn from your real-world experiences, whether it’s tips on interoperability, performance tuning, or best practices across IRIS and HealthShare ecosystems.

Hey Community!

As you may know, our Developer Community AI has been out for over a month now 🎉 We hope you were curious enough to give it a try 😁 If you haven't yet, please do! Anyway, since it's still in beta, we're very interested in learning what you think about it, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences.

Since we value your time and effort, we will give away a cute prize to a random member of the Community who shares how DC AI helped you. To participate in this sweepstakes, you have to follow the guidelines:

Hi Community!

I was recently asked my opinion of the GitHub Copilot. Since I haven't tried it myself, I decided to do some research 😀 And what better place to do it other than on the Developer Community 😜 

So, I get the idea in general. AI and machine learning algorithms offer real-time code suggestions, automate repetitive tasks, and help developers write code more efficiently. That sounds pretty good. It should increase productivity, reduce the number of errors, and help in learning. But there is definitely a dark side to this. Sometimes, even code completion makes me blow a gasket.

Hello,

I would like you to propose this challenge.

It has been created by the CodeWars community here: https://www.codewars.com/kata/6523a71df7666800170a1954/python

I will copy and paste the description:

🔡🟢 DESCRIPTION:

A number is Esthetic if, in any base from base2 up to base10, the absolute difference between every pair of its adjacent digits is constantly equal to 1.

Hello,

I would like to propose you a challenge.

It has been created by a web user called "uttumuttu" and it is being explained here: https://www.codewars.com/kata/66314d6b7cb7030393dddf8a

Here is the proposed challenge copied and pasted:

DESCRIPTION:

This kata was created as a contender for the EPIC Challenge 2024.

Background

It's your dream to have a magical wedding day, and you're willing to spend every last penny on it — while simultaneously planning for a stable retirement income.

Task

Your monthly surplus income (i.e., income after all taxes and mandatory monthly costs) is C dollars (e.g.

I was reading this article and I started to get lost in the sauce since I'm new to CCDA. I was wondering if you all had some recommendations for digging into some of the basics needed in order to assimilate this? For instance where it says "Some of the built-in logic for handling CCDAs is controlled by the IHE header....There is little visibility into this process in the product documentation." Are there examples or places where you have been able to find some insight into this sort of thing or maybe this is something that comes with experience?

I've been preparing to take the InterSystems HL7 Interface Specialist certificate and on the page that explains the cert it lists one in-person class and one online course. I've been through the suggested online course but when I read through the practice questions there are a lot of things that aren't covered or mentioned in that course. Naturally I could go digging through the documentation but there is no specific guidance about what things to study.
I was just wondering if there is a better organized collection of study materials for cert prep.

Hi Community!
As an AI language model, ChatGPT is capable of performing a variety of tasks like language translation, writing songs, answering research questions, and even generating computer code. With its impressive abilities, ChatGPT has quickly become a popular tool for various applications, from chatbots to content creation.
But despite its advanced capabilities, ChatGPT is not able to access your personal data. So we need to build a custom ChatGPT AI by using LangChain Framework:
Below are the steps to build a custom ChatGPT:

• Step 1: Load the document 

• Step 2: Splitting the document into chunks

• Step 3: Use Embedding against Chunks Data and convert to vectors

• Step 4: Save data to the Vector database

• Step 5: Take data (question) from the user and get the embedding

• Step 6: Connect to VectorDB and do a semantic search

• Step 7: Retrieve relevant responses based on user queries and send them to LLM(ChatGPT)

• Step 8: Get an answer from LLM and send it back to the user

  For more details, please Read this article

Hey guys,

As the year comes to a close, it's time to reminisce a little of what's gone on and what was the most important breakthrough or discovery of this year.

Hi everyone!

The other day I was reflecting on the possibilities that FHIR brings us in the world of interoperability and electronic medical records and it gave me mixed feelings, let me explain, first a small introduction.

Introduction

As you well know, FHIR is based on parameterizing a series of concepts that it calls resources in JSON or XML format with the intention of covering the most common cases within the healthcare environment, relying on HTTP communications to cover CRUD and query functionalities.

Hi Community!

In the previous announcement, we asked you what are your thoughts regarding the new rubric Water Cooler Talk - basically a moderated (possibly biweekly) discussion about some programming topic not directly related to the InterSystems products. Since the majority reacted positively, we'd like to invite you to write the topics that interest you in the comments to this post and mention if you would like to lead the discussion.

Hello Developers!

We've been thinking long and hard about something and decided that we definitely need your input about it 😊

When you find yourself in need or desire of learning something new in technology and you face the challenge of embarking on a new venture, what is the appropriate starting point? How do you decide where to begin and how to gradually approach the process, especially when the challenge seems overwhelming?
 

Myself I read official documentation or try to start with something I know and then learn something new very related.

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Hey guys!
I'm looking for good people to give a feed back about my article, just access the link below, translate from Brazilian Portuguese to your language if necessary and leave your feed back

Link: https://pt.community.intersystems.com/post/veremos-seguir-como-o-inters…

Don't leave your feed back here, leave it in the article.

A question for anyone using InterSystems technology:

What are the biggest challenges you’ve faced either trying to hire developers that know ObjectScript, or trying to train developers on ObjectScript?

• Are developers generally willing or resistant to the idea of learning ObjectScript?   Why?
• For developers trying to learn ObjectScript - what was that process like?   What were the main challenges there?
  • In-person learning?  
  • Online class? 
  • Documentation?  
  • What were your impressions?

• How did it compare to other languages?
• What would have made it easier to learn?

Hi Community,

Please read this when you have the time and keep an open mind. Also, you are welcome to tell me it is a terrible idea.

The main reason for this post

If you look at NPM, it has 1.3 million packages. Now ask yourself, is this an achievement or a nightmare?
How many of those packages are no longer supported?
How many of those packages break compatibility on version changes?
How do you know which one to use?

Hi, I spend most of my time on VsCode and I love the dark theme.

But when I go to the InterSystems Community it's all white and I can't read anything.

Is it possible to have a dark theme for the community?

A Minute Of Laughter on the Developer Community with #InterSystemsMemes.

Here is the Holiday edition of the memes sent/created by Developer Community members!
Enjoy the memes and don't forget to check our Winter Holiday challenges on Global Masters (available till Jan 2).

1. Meme author: @Udo Leimberger

Hello,

Thank you for reading this question, and thank you for your time and replies.

I was wondering which ways, tools, mechanisms, or vias would you recommend to teach to kids, teens, adults, being your sons / daughters or not; your passion or likelihood for programming and computers?

I know there are some programming free games like the following ones:

https://wintrmut3.itch.io/maelstromexe

https://niandra.itch.io/just-add-eggs

https://jaywee1115.itch.io/code-ed

https://ratking.itch.io/chipcode

Even more, there are some sites which propose you small challenges:

https://www.codewars.

If you want prepare yourself or test a programmer for a job, this is my tip: https://www.hackerrank.com

What advice would you give someone who is new to IT?

Someone who wants to become a developer?

Which code to start learning first?

Hello,

Thanks for reading:

Do you admire or have as a positive model any software developer?

For example, Grace Hopper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

💭▶️ In addition, do you know any software developer with special handicaps / conditions or challenges? For example, not able to walk, or any other special challenge? If so, who?

Thanks for replying.

Greetings.

Hello,

Thanks for reading:

I was wondering if you would recommend or like any film?

For example thare are some films related to computers like:

Kimi (stylized as KIMI) is a 2022 American thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written and produced by David Koepp. The film stars Zoë Kravitz. It was released on HBO Max on February 10, 2022, to generally positive reviews. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimi_(film)

What genres of films or series do you love?

Thanks for replying.

Greetings.

Hello,

Thanks for reading:

I was wondering, what habits or activities keep your mood balanced and your mind sharpened and your body fit?

What kind of sports do you like?

What habits are the ones that you recommend?

Thanks for replying.

Greetings

Hello,

Thanks for reading:

What hobbies would you recommend to balance being a professional software developer and have other activities to replenish yourself?

For example: what sports or physical excercise would you recommend? Swimming, gym, bycicle, walk?

What social activities: board games, hang out with other people?

What deep activities to bring yourself a "flow state moment"? Playing an instrument, learning to paint, watching series, play videogames, gardening, reading, playing sports...?

🔁📤📝 Thanks for your replies.

Greetings!

Hello,

Thank you for reading this question, and thank you for your time and replies.

I was wondering which ways, tools, mechanisms, or vias would you recommend to teach to kids, teens, adults, being your sons / daughters or not; your passion or likelihood for programming and computers?

I know there are some programming free games like the following ones:

https://seshoumara.itch.io/the-stack-machine

https://wintrmut3.itch.io/maelstromexe

https://importantlittlegames.itch.io/codemancer-ch-1

https://volutedberet.itch.io/the-ocean-cleanup-project

https://yeoyeo.itch.io/buggy-code

https://elgregos.itch.