I am similar to Andrew in that I use PyCharm for my big projects as it helps manage multiple venvs for me.  Which means I don't install all the different packages I am playing with site-wide to avoid issues.  I am typically wrapping my Python into Docker, so this works well, and PyCharm also helps maintain/monitor my requirements.txt file in the venv, which then ensures that when I build the docker, I can pip install -r requirements.txt and know I have everything I need.

I use Notepad++ if all I want to do is a tiny script or just want to look at something I did, as PyCharm can take a while to open, so if I am not really writing code, it isn't worth opening up.

I am not using Jupyter notebooks for my "hacky" stuff and ML, as it makes it easy to have a couple of lines of code and print results.  So, if I am just testing something, or learning some new trick, it is really easy to iterate a line or two of code, or compare outputs, etc.

I use Notepad++ for most of my quick editing of .js, and .yaml files, and all my docker files.  Not for heavy coding of a big project.  That goes in PyCharm, since my real coding has been Python lately.

I use Notepad++ for most of my quick editing of .js, and .yaml files, and all my docker files.  Not for heavy coding of a big project.  That goes in PyCharm, since my real coding has been Python lately.

1. To exit the IRIS session use the command halt 

2. And yes, for most container activity, it is best to do an apt-get update && apt-get install inside your containers, which will make sure it has the latest packages/repositories available.

David, you are correct the command is actually docker volume create <name of volume>

You can then do docker volume ls to list your existing volumes, or docker volume purge to delete volumes that are no longer associated with a running container.

We should probably update this article a bit as the new Docker for Windows no longer supports AUFS, but the Overlay2 driver issues have been fixed.  So setting your driver to AUFS isn't needed anymore if you are running on the newest 2.0+ version.

I also tend to prefer using docker-compose for some of this so I can map out the volumes, a specific network, container names, etc that all help  you connect other containers to your IRIS, such as Zeppelin/Spark, a browser based IDE, or a Java app, etc.

Are you looking for full ssh/bash access into the container, or would an interactive InterSystems Terminal session? To run SQL shell or other database specific commands?

Full ssh is difficult as it opens up potential security issues.  The InterSystems Terminal would be possible.  We have a web accessible version that is in testing right now that we could add.

If you clarify what you are looking to do, we can see what meets the needs best.

Doug

Some of the examples developed for Windows came from me within the Learning Services team.  We map the key and password files in separately as we have to pull different key files for different product training.  We also rotate passwords and keys on a regular basis, so we found it was easier to have them living in their own directories on the local host so we can manage them better.

That said, you are correct that you can put them in one folder and only map it once.  The docker run commands get a bit complex, so we have moved to mostly using docker-compose and an .ENV file to help us parameterize different settings as we move containers from test (on a local Windows 10 machine) to staging  to production (on Linux).

We are currently working to convert the experience labs into online experiences.  The FHIR Experience will be ready in the next two weeks, closely followed by the Spark Experience.  We have additional details to work out for the Build Your Own Cloud experience as it runs by building in our InterSystems cloud and can consume a lot of resources, but we expect to get that worked out in the next 4 - 6 weeks.

Thanks Luca for the mention above, but it was a large team effort with several people from the Online Learning team as well as product manager, sales engineers, etc.

You can actually see this code in action and test it out in the Setting Alerts course that Stuart mentioned. Great job Stuart!

 https://learning.intersystems.com/course/view.php?id=461

Glenn,

We are working on some more detailed courses on Health Insights.  Right now we have a Health Insight Resource Guide that can start you off with an Overview and provides access to the documentation as long are a customer/partner.

I just tried to edit the post and get the same issue when using the "Internal" link type.  I was able to edit and put in a normal URL back to the page, which works, but takes a bit more effort to copy/paste.

I can log an internal ticket and have somebody look at it.

Great job on the index Mike.  It should be much easier to update.

One thing to consider is the change the name to "Newbie's Corner Index"... which may be grammatically incorrect... but I'm not the one to ask.  But then the index would also show up in the list when I search for all "Newbie's Corner" posts.

You could just do a link to the search.  If you create the search that you want, such as "Newbie's Corner" and then copy the link, you can insert that one link. 

This is the link I produced: https://community.intersystems.com/search/all/%22NewBie%27s%20Corner%22

And you get the list of all of your newbie posts.  

That link will do a new search each time, so each time you add a new post it will be listed.  

Doug

Mike,

One thing you can look at is the "Learn Caché for Developers" resource guide that we just launched on the beta learning site. https://beta.learning.intersystems.com/course/view.php?id=4

It is set up to point you to a number of the different Caché resources.  That said, we are still working on it, so if you have some ideas for existing resources that should be included, or other types of guides and resources, please let me know and we can help pull them together.

Doug Foster - Manager, Online Learning