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Lead of Developer Community at InterSystems
Announcement Anastasia Dyubaylo Β· Jan 13, 2023

InterSystems Developer Tools Contest

Hey Developers,

We'd like to invite you to join our next contest dedicated to creating useful tools to make your fellow developers' lives easier

πŸ† InterSystems Developer Tools Contest πŸ†

Submit an application that helps to develop faster, contributes more qualitative code, and helps in testing, deployment, support, or monitoring of your solution with InterSystems IRIS.

Duration: January 23 - February 12, 2023

Prize pool: $13,500

 

The topic

πŸ’‘  InterSystems IRIS developer tools πŸ’‘

In this contest, we expect applications that improve developer experience with IRIS, help to develop faster, contribute more qualitative code, help to test, deploy, support, or monitor your solution with InterSystems IRIS.

General Requirements:

  1. Accepted applications: new to Open Exchange apps or existing ones, but with a significant improvement. Our team will review all applications before approving them for the contest.
  2. The application should work on InterSystems IRIS Community Edition.
  3. Types of applications that match: UI-frameworks, IDE, Database management, monitoring, deployment tools, etc.
  4. The application should be an Open Source application and published on GitHub. 
  5. The README file to the application should be in English, contain the installation steps, and contain either the video demo or/and a description of how the application works.
  6. One developer can enter the competition with a maximum of 3 applications.

Prizes

1. Experts Nomination - a specially selected jury will determine the winners:

πŸ₯‡ 1st place - $5,000 

πŸ₯ˆ 2nd place - $3,000 

πŸ₯‰ 3rd place - $1,500

πŸ… 4th place - $750

πŸ… 5th place - $500

🌟 6-10th places - $100

2. Community winners - an application that will receive the most votes in total:

πŸ₯‡ 1st place - $1000 

πŸ₯ˆ 2nd place - $750 

πŸ₯‰ 3rd place - $500

If several participants score the same amount of votes, they all are considered winners, and the money prize is shared among the winners.  

Important Deadlines:

πŸ›  Application development and registration phase:

  • January 23, 2023 (00:00 EST): Contest begins.
  • February 5, 2023 (23:59 EST): Deadline for submissions.

βœ… Voting period:

  • February 6, 2023 (00:00 EST): Voting begins.
  • February 12, 2023 (23:59 EST): Voting ends.

Note: Developers can improve their apps throughout the entire registration and voting period.

Who can participate?

Any Developer Community member, except for InterSystems employees. Create an account!

πŸ‘₯ Developers can team up to create a collaborative application. Allowed from 2 to 5 developers in one team.

Do not forget to highlight your team members in the README of your application – DC user profiles.

Helpful resources

βœ“ Example applications:

βœ“ Templates we suggest to start from:

βœ“ For beginners with IRIS:

βœ“ For beginners with ObjectScript Package Manager (ZPM):

βœ“ How to submit your app to the contest:

Need Help?

Join the contest channel on InterSystems' Discord server or talk with us in the comment to this post. 

We can't wait to see your projects! Good luck πŸ‘


By participating in this contest, you agree to the competition terms laid out here. Please read them carefully before proceeding. 

 

Comments

Evgeny Shvarov Β· Jan 23, 2023

What a contest!

It'd be great if someone could implement the tool to export Interoperability components into a local folder with every changes saved in the interoperability UI?

Currently git-source-control can do the job, but it is not complete. Some Interoperability components (e.g. business rules) are not being exported. And lookup tables are exported in an not importable format.

I published and idea regarding it.

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Timothy Leavitt  Jan 24, 2023 to Evgeny Shvarov

@Evgeny Shvarov as we've covered in GitHub issues, the business rule issue is a product-level issue (in the new Angular rule editor only, not the old Zen rule editor). I clarified https://github.com/intersystems/git-source-control/issues/225 re: the importable format.

The non-"wrapped" XML export format is importable by git-source-control and, I believe, IPM itself, although not by $System.OBJ.Load. It's just a matter of preference/readability. In a package manager context being loadable by $System.OBJ.Load isn't as important, and while the enclosing <Export> and <Document> tags aren't as annoying for XML files as for XML-exported classes/routines/etc., they're still annoying and distract from the true content of the document.

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Timothy Leavitt  Jan 24, 2023 to Timothy Leavitt

Also - git-source-control 2.1.0 fixes issues with import of its own export format. You should try it out. ;)

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Ben Spead  Jan 24, 2023 to Timothy Leavitt

nice job Tim!  Thank you for continuing to improve this :)

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Alex Woodhead  Jan 31, 2023 to Evgeny Shvarov

Hi Evgeny,

The ompare tool has a Schedule option that happily exports classes, routines, productions, lookup tables, HL7 schemas. It can be configured to traverse multiple namespaces in a single run, generating an export file for each namespace.

Wonder if this is useful for your case. A periodic export / snapshot of some components.

Cheers,

Alex

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Iryna Mologa Β· Jan 30, 2023

Dear Developers!

Please use technology bonuses to collect more votes and get closer to victory. πŸ₯³

Happy coding!✌

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Kurro Lopez Β· Feb 4, 2023

I just uploaded my app... It is the first time that I participate in one of the programming contests... I hope you like it.

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