Hi, Community!

I'm pleased to announce that we deployed a new release of Developer Community.

With this release we introduce:

1. New post type is introduced: Announcement

Choose Announcement as a post type if you want to say about a new product or feature release, about some new services in your company, if it is event announcement or there is a new job position open in your company.

E.g. here is an announcement, this is another example of event announcement and this very post is an announcement too.

Announcement post has "loudspeaker" sign in the post feed. See the examples:

2.

Hi, Community!

We are pleased to invite you to the InterSystems UK Developer Community Meetup on 17th of October!

The UK Developer Community Meetup is an informal meeting of developers, engineers, and devops to discuss successes and lessons learnt from those building and supporting solutions with InterSystems products. 

Hi, Community!

The Global Summit 2017 Key Notes session will start in two hours at 9-00AM (PT).

Here is the link for live streaming.

Join!

Hi, folks!

What could be the best backup/restore strategy for a small (less than 100MB) but very valuable database which is placed on AWS/DO virtual host?

1. Use AWS/DO backup/restore features?

2. External backup (as the most recommended)?

3. InterSystems backup?

4. Globals export to a zipped file?

5. cache.dat copy?

Looking for the most robust and easy to use/implement method of backup and restore in a way "setup and forget" (until it becomes needed :)

Hi, Community!

This post is a digest of the Developer Community postings in August 2017.

Most viewed

Your Workflow: Issue Tracking, Version Control etc.  243

Runtime type detection  217

Feeling the power of Caché   188

AES Encryption  159

from the roots to InterSystems  156

Load JSON from a file  149

Server-side way to disable logins for all users  149

Grafana-based GUI for mgstat, a system monitoring tool for InterSystems Caché, Ensemble or HealthShare  148

Caché and Ensemble 2017.1.x on OpenVMS - Recall  145

PDFs and Reading them  144

Winning in GIS competition  135

Frontier: A different way of working with REST  118

Handling images with Caché & JSON, and why 57 is a magic number  117

Hi, folks!

I'm sending emails with %Net.MailMessage.

How can I add a new line for the email body?

The code is:

dim msg as %Net.MailMessage = ##class(%Net.MailMessage).%New()
set msg.Charset="UTF-8"
do msg.TextData.Write("Dear  "_Username)
do msg.TextData.Write("Line1")
do msg.TextData.Write("Line2")

Dear UserLine1Line2

How can I get:

Dear User

Line1

Line2

Hi, Community!

For those developers who are attending Global Summit 2017 this year: you have an opportunity to share your solutions, framework, and experience with the rest GS attendees and Developer Community.

On Monday 11th we would have Developer Community Sessions in Tech Exchange Open House (see the agenda).

Every presenter would have 10 minutes for slides and 5 minutes for questions. So we have 6 slots available at the moment.

We would have a live stream of the event on DC YouTube so you would be able to watch it and ask questions in comments to the streaming over Internet.

Hi, Community!

For those who plan to attend Global Summit 2017: we introduced the new reward:  the first-row seat reserved for you on the Key Notes session.

Hi, Community!

I'm pleased to announce that we introduced the second release on DC in August.

Hi, Community!

I just have introduced new tag Indexing which relates to articles and questions on how to introduce, manage and increase performance with Indexing on Caché Objects.

Hi, Community!

I'm pleased to announce that we deployed a new release of Developer Community.

This release comes with improved Search.

The updated search feature introduces full-text scan, auto complete for the key words, filters on articles, questions, comments, members and works faster.

Here is the small video on how it works.

Also, we fixed a few bugs and made DC faster.

Hope you like it! 

Stay tuned for the next release and introduce your issues here in comments or and enhancement requests and other issues in the DC Feedback group!

Hi, folks!

There is an interesting discussion in the neighboring topic which raises a question for me: is there any reason to have %Status as a return value for COS method?

Hi, Community!

Due to increasing number of new questions and articles regarding containerization, docker, microservices we've introduced certain tags. Subscribe and use it in your postings.

If you have any ideas for new tags to be introduced, please add your ideas in comments.

Hi, Community!

You know we would have a meetup in Boston on the 8th of July August with the following agenda:

Hi, Community!

This post is a digest of the Developer Community postings in July 2017.

Most viewed

MonCaché - Caché as MongoDB  236

Developer Community Meetup in Cambridge  197

Need variable number of query parameters in dynamic query  190

how to release memory for process?  180

Old/New Dynamic SQL Cheat Sheet  172

Atelier & Git?   169

[Fixed in 2018.1.1 + quick fix] Anomaly in German sorting  154

Connecting to a web service  148

use punycode in caché  141

Estimation techniques in intersystems  136

Most voted

MonCaché - Caché as MongoDB  8

Globals - Magic swords for storing data. Sparse arrays. Part 3.

Hi, folks!

Suppose I have a CSP app, which provides some service.

And the code of my App knows the name of the CSP App in form: /myappname

How can I programmatically obtain the URL for CSP apps to send the full qualified link to the users(e.g. via email) of my app?

E.g. https://productionserver.com/myappname

Hi, Community!

Recently we announced Developer Community Meetup in Cambridge, MA. Let me describe what is it. 

Meetup it's a one evening event where you can enjoy some sessions by presenters (today InterSystems engineers, tomorrow you can be a presenter) and chat with local developers and InterSystems developers, engineers and product managers (depends on who is in town) and discuss your problems, experience, and success with InterSystems technologies.

InterSystems would provide the place, technical sessions, some food and beverages. 

We think the Developer Community would benefit from it.

Hi, Community!

We introduced the new dashboard which shows the stats on members' articles, questions, and answers.

Hope it would help you to find the authors you would like to follow and find interesting posts you could miss.

Hi, Community!

I'm pleased to invite you to InterSystems Community Meetup we would have in Cambridge on 8th  of August.

Hi, folks!

I need to get the source code of a class installed on a remote server. I have no Studio or Atelier access to it but I can manage REST and Web terminal access.

What is the easiest way for me to make it?

Hi, Community!

We've just introduced 2 new rewards for members of the​ Global Masters - $200 (3,000 points) and $300 (5,000 points) discounts for​ Global Summit 2017.

Limit one Global Masters discount code per member. Code is non-transferable.

Hi, Community!

This post is a digest of the Developer Community postings in June 2017.

Most viewed

Output 9876543210 without using numbers  314

Atelier 1.1 Roadmap  313

Is Caché SQL essential to Caché Objects?  227

Virtualizing large databases - VMware CPU capacity planning  223

WebTerminal Over Telnet Is Possible. Should It Born? (v5) Open Discussion.  186

Ways and methods of Accessing Relationships with SQL  177

Meet John Murray, InterSystems Developer Community Moderator  165

Cogs.JsonClass 1.0  155

Decoding Base64 PDF File  152

Can you crack the Black Box?

Hi, Community!

Hope you have already put in your schedule the visit to InterSystems Global Summit 2017 which will take place on 10-13 of September in remarkable JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa.

This year we have Experience Lab, The Unconference, and 50 more other sessions, regarding performance, cloud, scalability, FHIR, high availability and other solutions and best practices.

Hi, Community!

A few months ago we introduced votes for postings.

Hi, Community!

Today we deployed new DC release which delivers.

Better subscriptions

All subscription settings now placed in one page, unified and simplified.
 

You can subscribe to Posts, Tags, Groups and Members and you can view it all, or filter by category on one page.

you can search for the subscription in case it's a lot and alter if you want to subscribe for the comments for every post with a given tag or group.

If you want to turn on or turn off the emailing from the site - there is one switcher for it: receive notifications.

Permalinks and answers

Comments and Answers have permalinks now.

Hi, Community!

How do you store the source files of your Caché project? What is the directories structure? What are the benefits?

I prefer the following structure:

/cls/package/subpackage/class.cls

/mac/package/routine.mac

/int/package/routine.int

/inc/macro.inc

/dfi/folder/sample.pivot.dfi

Example

Benefits: 

• folders are packages.
• easy to understand what type of sources are in the project.

What is your approach?

Hi, Community!

I'm pleased to introduce John Murray as a new Developer Community moderator.

John is constantly posting helpful articles and answering questions showing the great knowledge and experience in InterSystems technology.

Recently John kindly agreed to become InterSystems Developer Community moderator and joined InterSystems moderators team!

Here are some details John wants to share:

I am Senior Product Engineer at George James Software (http://georgejames.com), where I have worked for nearly two decades.

Hi, Community!

We are introducing Telegram Channel  for Developer Community most interesting articles, discussions, events and announcements! 

If you already use this messenger, join the DC Channel so you can easily follow what's new on Developer Community.

See how it looks:

Join! 

Hi, Community!

Suppose I have class A with properties P1 and P2.

I want to introduce class B, which would have same records as Class A, but only  one property - P2.

What is the easiest  way to manage it assuming that I would like to use Class A to add records and be available for any operations to Users with Role A.

And I would like to introduce class B for Users with role B for read-only access.  Preferably they shouldn't even be aware of Class A and P1 existence .

What is the easiest way to introduce it and manage it?

Use some proxy-classes?  Property-level security?

Hi, Community!

Please find the Developer Community video of the week: Human Decision as a Part of Workflow.

This video is a session from Global Summit 2016 which describes:

• The needs of human decision in workflow
• Human workflow and InterSystems Ensemble
• Ensemble Workflow API

Enjoy and stay tuned with Developer Community YouTube Channel.