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Ben Spead · Nov 8, 2021 go to post

@Timothy Leavitt - I may be able to answer my own question here ... are the additional benefits the visual branch UI that is build into the IDE and the package manager awareness?

Ben Spead · Nov 8, 2021 go to post

Thanks @Timothy Leavitt for that detail.  In what way will these hooks be superior to the existing client-side VSCode hooks for Git?  I am interested in understanding the additional benefit for local instance work

Ben Spead · Nov 8, 2021 go to post

Great job @Timothy Leavitt and team!! This been a significant need for some time in order to support organizations that work in a shared-dev model, as well as those looking to connect the source controlled SMP pages to Git.  I look forward to seeing how this enables out community to make more thorough use of source control!  

Ben Spead · Nov 8, 2021 go to post

I would encourage anyone who is implementing or maintaining a CCR-controlled system to consider taking this course!  Sam does an excellent job and if you haven't gone through the ICC material in a while I can promise that you'll walk away with new learning and be better equipped to use CCR to increase productivity and decrease risk to your applications.  

Please also note that this course is the prerequisite to the CCR Certification exam which will soon be available for beta testing: https://community.intersystems.com/post/beta-testers-needed-our-upcoming-ccr-technical-implementation-specialist-certification-exam

So take the class and then earn your certification!

Ben Spead · Nov 4, 2021 go to post

@Herman Slagman  - FYI ... we will be making full kits available for the 2021.2 CD (Continuous Delivery) release.  Stay tuned for more announcements coming this month about the Preview for that release.  

Ben Spead · Nov 3, 2021 go to post

Thank you @Julian.Matthews7786 !!  Installed and I look forward to using it and sharing with others as well.  Much appreciated :)

Ben Spead · Nov 3, 2021 go to post

@Julian.Matthews7786 - Off-topic  question:  Your screen-capture snippets really helped to quickly illustrate your issue as well as the solution once you found it.  This is an incredibly effective way to communicate - what tool to you use to capture these?  

Ben Spead · Nov 3, 2021 go to post

Well done @Pravin Barton !!  Thank you for getting this out the door.

I want to note for our readers that the new Community Edition download in Evaluation is intended to replace our long-standing download.InterSystems.com application.  So I would encourage all users of the Download application to give this new feature of Evaluation a try and let us know if you have any issues.  We intend to retire Download by the end of the year.  

Ben Spead · Nov 3, 2021 go to post

you can edit the article as long as you are the original author.  Thanks again for the great write-up!

Ben Spead · Nov 3, 2021 go to post

you can edit the article as long as you are the original author.  Thanks again for the great write-up!

Ben Spead · Nov 3, 2021 go to post

Could you please paste in the compiled code for zGo+181^mb.MbMainOperation.1 and the code preceding it?

Ben Spead · Nov 3, 2021 go to post

what sort of reformatting are you looking to do?  Like command expansion that Studio offers or something else?  

Ben Spead · Nov 2, 2021 go to post

@Nigel Salm  - a LOT of thought and time went into this ... thank you for sharing!

I am curious, have you considered publishing a working copy of this code to the Open Exchange?  Any particular reason that you haven't shared it in that way?

Ben Spead · Nov 2, 2021 go to post

Small suggest - use $zf(-100) rather than $zf(-1) as it is more secure and $zf(-1) is not supposed to be used anymore (it is kept in place for backward compatibility but it really is deprecated for use in new code)

Ben Spead · Oct 29, 2021 go to post

I agree Robert - I think ObjectScript, SQL and Embedded Python of the potential of a very powerful trifecta for customer logic (close to the data), data access, and re-usable library access!

Ben Spead · Oct 29, 2021 go to post

So you are saying that in order to Embedded Python to be able to be appropriately leveraged in places where it should be leveraged alongside ObjectScript, it is important for all developers to understand its potential, even if they don't have use-cases where they personally require its use?

Ben Spead · Oct 29, 2021 go to post

Thank you for confirming that renaming should work. We do in-place upgrades for our apps so I haven't tried that approach of renaming.

Ben Spead · Oct 29, 2021 go to post

You should not attempt to move the \mgr\CACHE.DAT as that is Caché CACHELIB core library code.

You need to identify the databases holding your custom code and data and those are the .DATs of interest to you.  Presumably you have your application in a different namespace?  Look at the the location for the routine and data databases in the Management Portal for that Namespace and start there. 

That being said - I am not sure if we support a rename of CACHE.DAT to IRIS.DAT - hopefully someone else can address that question 

Ben Spead · Oct 29, 2021 go to post

@Robert Cemper - I agree on the strong recommendation!  

I am curious, why do you see Embedded Python as central for all IRIS developers?

Ben Spead · Oct 28, 2021 go to post

@Michael Pine - I understand that frustration from when I was new and I think the biggest contributing factor (for me) to that frustration was a lack of resources for quickly finding code samples or getting my questions answered.  I think that the D.C. has started to fill in this hole for people, and the more we all use it to share ObjectScript Q&As, best practices and Tips & Tricks, the more we will lower that frustration for ourselves and for others coming to the language :)  So glad to have you as part of the Community!

Ben Spead · Oct 28, 2021 go to post

We would really love to see a rich set of beta testers trying out this exam!  I would encourage any and all CCR users to consider being a beta tester for us.  Thanks in advance for your help!

Ben Spead · Oct 28, 2021 go to post

This is pretty exciting work that InterSystems AppServices is thrilled to be involved with.  I hope that over time the Git/GitLab work can provide a great solution for customers looking for an easy way to add source control and environment-based change promotion to some of their existing processes.  We look forward to feedback from the Community.  Thank you for your work on this @Timothy Leavitt and team :)

Ben Spead · Oct 28, 2021 go to post

@Nigel Salm - I love the story about your being escorted out of the Oracle conference session.  However, should the question posed to you by the speaker be "Who are you?" rather than "How are you?"  .... it looks like it might be a typo or bad auto-correct :)