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This post is a digest of the Developer Community postings in January 2018.

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InterSystems Response to Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities 432

For and If with one line: to brace or not to brace 298

Meltdown and Spectre – Performance Impact 268

Send JSON Via HTTP request 216

Hi Community!

Coding guidelines discussion. Consider you have For with one command in the cycle. Here are the options:

One

For i=1:1:1000 set ^Test(i)=""

Two

For i=1:1:1000 {
 set ^Test(i)=""
}

Same for the "If":

if a set b=a

or

if a {
 set b=a
}

Your choice? Or maybe even other options?

Hi, Community!

Here is the digest of the best questions on InterSystems Data Platform in 2017.

In 2017 1,158 questions and here are Top 20 on most viewed, most voted and most commented.

Most viewed

WebSockets vs Long Polling vs Short Polling?, by Sean Connelly 2639

GitLab CI examples?, by Eduard Lebedyuk 2172

WebMethod - Issue with encoding (special character), by Murillo Braga 755

SHA256 Signing with RSA PSS padding, by Stefan Cronje 752

New Programming Language - Discussion, by Maks Atygaev 672

Managing UTF-8 characters on the database with a REST application, by Amir Samary 602

Decoding Base64 PDF File, by John Flippance 519

ERROR #822: Access Denied, by Natasa Klenovsek Arh 506

Convert to JSON string, by Bapu Hirave 501

XML to Json conversion, by Yuriy Borokhov 497

Authentication with REST, by Pasi Leino 496

Notepad++ Language Pack for COS?, by Benjamin Schlanger 467

Cache DB in Docker Container, by Natasa Klenovsek Arh 448

Globals vs Locals: What Is Faster?, by Evgeny Shvarov 441

Configuring IIS Web Server to Serve RESTful Web Services, by Kenneth Poindexter 432

ERROR #5002: Cache error in Ensemble Soap Service, by Tom Philippi 426

Output 9876543210 without using numbers, by Eduard Lebedyuk 426

SQL with 2 columns in where condition, by Natasa Klenovsek Arh 425

Scripted/Automated Production Deployment?, by Greg Arnold 422

SQL or Cache Function?, by Roger Beeman 421

Hi, Community!

Someday you find yourself having a wonderful class package which can be helpful in several projects. So it is a library package.

How to make the classes available for different namespaces in Caché? There are two ways (at least two ways familiar to me):

1. Start the name of the package with %, like %FantasticLib.SuperClass. Wrong way.

If you do that the class would be placed in %SYS and would be available in other namespaces.

This is wrong because of the two reasons:

Hi, Community!

New 2018 Year is coming!

Time to have a break and recall what a great year was 2017! And to plan how fantastic 2018 would be!

Best Wishes and Happy Holidays!

Hi, Community!

I'm pleased to announce that in this December 2017 we have 2 years of InterSystems Developer Community up and running!

Together we did a lot this year, and a lot more is planned for the next year!

Our Community is growing: In November we had 3,700 registered members (2,200 last November) and 13,000 web users visited the site in November 2017 (7,000 last year).

Thank you for using it, thanks for making it useful, thanks for your knowledge, experience, and your passion!

And, may I ask you to share in the comments the article or question which was most helpful for you this year?

Happy Birthday, Developer Community!

Hi, Community!

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

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Announcement: Atelier Is Only Available as an Eclipse Plugin 376

Advent of Code 2016 Day1: No Time for a Taxicab 194

Where is the equivalent of INSPECTOR in Atelier ? See ! 164

How to find duplicates for a large text field in Caché Objects? 160

Atelier 1.1 Beta Updates – October 2017 144

DeepSee Web: InterSystems Analytics Visualization with AngularJS. Part 1 133

What are all the ways an Object Property can be expressed? 127

The 'unlimited' UNIQUE index 126

Global Time Management 125

How to get the Size of the Global Subscript 124

Software-Defined Storage and Containers 104

Summary on Local Variable Scoping 100

How long does it take to encrypt a database? 96

Advent of Code 2016 Day2: Bathroom Security 90

How to convert from your standalone Atelier? 90

Hi folks!

Is there a one line command to map class package A to Namespace ASPACE?