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Ben Spead · Aug 20, 2021 go to post

Great tip ... I never knew this!!  Thank you for sharing as this always bugged me not to he able to use these keyboard shortcuts:)

Ben Spead · Aug 20, 2021 go to post

Great tip ... I never knew this!!  Thank you for sharing as this always bugged me not to he able to use these keyboard shortcuts:)

Ben Spead · Aug 16, 2021 go to post

I completely agree with @Timothy Leavitt here.  Besides the speed of the DB, the core value of Caché (now IRIS) for the past 2 decades that I have used it has been the ability to create just about anything I needed within an application without needing to bolt on additional tools, additional layers, additional languages, or additional dependencies.  Directly access business logic on the server from the web page, directly instantiate and work against objects anywhere in your code - there is no 'throwing things over the wall' to the DB guy, or to the microservice guy, you just code what you need in ObjectScript and be done with it.  
To @Robert Cemper 's point below, I really don't think it takes an Artist to be able to write and support this kind of code, just a talented developer with some good OO skills.  I do think you need to be able to find Artists to support the legacy M applications which are still floating around, but it is pretty straight-forward to get the full power of the stack for new applications while avoiding modes of use which would require a "Priest" to be able to interpret it in the future.  
Having recently been involved in another initiative for several months that was not DB-centric development, and having witnessed how much harder it seemed to be and more time intensive to piece together the different disparate technologies at different levels of the stack in order to make a full solution, it reminded me of why I fell in love with Caché in the first place and made me excited to get back to full stack dev in on a single integrated platform :)  
 

Ben Spead · Aug 16, 2021 go to post

Thanks for the heads up @Bren Mochocki!  This is being looked into as we speak.  No eta on when it will be restored as of right now....

Ben Spead · Jun 23, 2021 go to post

@ROBSON SERPA DA ROSA  - welcome to the Community!!

The two options available to you are InterSystems Studio (ships with Caché and is an install-time option) and VS Code with appropriate add-ons.

InterSystems Studio is being phased out (no new dev) - the future is VS Code, so I suggest you start there.

This may be a good place for you to start: https://community.intersystems.com/post/webinar-introduction-vscode-obj…

Hope that helps!!

Ben Spead · Jun 8, 2021 go to post

Great article, thank you!  I hadn't seen the DataOps concept before but it makes a lot of sense.

Ben Spead · Jun 2, 2021 go to post

Really excellent article Anton- I learned a lot,  thank you for taking the time to put it together!!!

Ben Spead · May 22, 2021 go to post

Great work on this Matt!  Thank you for your hard work to bring this enhancement to our Beta Users!!

Ben Spead · May 17, 2021 go to post

The nice advantage of storing them in the DB is that is makes the following easier:

- refreshing earlier environments for testing
- mirroring the file contents
- encryption
- simpler consistent backups

However, if you're talking about hundreds of GBs of data, then you can run into issues which you should weigh against the above:

- journaling volume
- .dat size
- .dat restore time

One way to help mitigate the above for larger volume file management is to map the classes that are storing the the stream properties into their own .DAT so they can be managed separately from other application data, and then you can even use subscript level mapping to cap the size of the file .DATs.  

Hope that helps

Ben Spead · Apr 27, 2021 go to post

Congrats!!!  Well deserved:)  Thank you all for your contributions!! 

Ben Spead · Apr 21, 2021 go to post

Thank you for publishing!!

I am curious ... did you start with one of the existing open source Git hooks for ObjectScript or did you start from scratch with this project?

Ben Spead · Apr 19, 2021 go to post

Great article @John Murray!  We automatically set this global in our environment configuration logic (as well as set notify the user as to the application and environment type in ZWELCOME) whenever we run our customized instance configuration script.  Very helpful to make the intention of the environment clear whenever you are in the SMP!

Ben Spead · Apr 19, 2021 go to post

Are you asking how to check a global to see if the system is Dev/Test/Production as per the "System Mode" dropdown in the "Memory and Startup" page in the SMP?

 

If so, then this is stored in the following global:

^%SYS("SystemMode")

It should have values like "DEVELOPMENT", "TEST" and "LIVE"