#Contest

SQLBuilder is a flexible and powerful SQL query string builder for InterSystems IRIS,

With SQLBuilder you have nice and clean object oriented methods, instead of having to use concatenation and substituition to generate dynamic queries.

A Dynamic SQL without SQLBuilder

A Dynamic SQL with SQLBuilder

If you like it, don't forget to vote in the IRIS Programming Contest

Hi Community,

Let's meet together at the online meetup with the winners of the Grand Prix Contest 2023 – a great opportunity to have a discussion with the InterSystems Experts team as well as our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Thursday, July 13, 11 am EDT | 5 pm CEST

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the annual InterSystems Grand Prix Contest 2023! 

Thank you to all our amazing participants who submitted 20 applications 🔥 

Hi Developers!

Here is the bonus results for the applications in InterSystems Grand Prix Programming Contest 2023:

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our InterSystems Grand Prix Contest 2023:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

VS Code has a powerful snippets capability, and its Marketplace offers a way for developers to publish their snippets so others can use them. However, publishing on Marketplace takes some effort and snippets targeting InterSystems coders will realistically only be of interest to a very small number of Marketplace visitors.

This inspired me to create oex-vscode-snippets-template, a GitHub template for creating repositories dedicated to publishing code snippets for InterSystems devs.

Hi colleagues!

InterSystems Grand Prix 2023 unites all the key features of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform!

Thus we invite you to use the following features and collect additional technical bonuses that will help you to win the prize!

Here we go!

Hi Developers,

The annual competition for InterSystems IRIS developers is fast approaching! 

We're super excited to invite you all to join the Grand Prix contest for building open-source solutions using InterSystems IRIS data platform! 

🏆 InterSystems Grand Prix Contest 2023 🏆

Duration: June 12th - July 9th, 2023

Prize pool: $26,000

Strap on this jetpack to boost your developer experience in Visual Studio Code.

DX Jetpack for VS Code was my entry for the 2023 Developer Tools Contest, where it achieved 2nd place in the Experts vote and 5th place in the Community vote. It is an extension pack for VS Code, bundling three entirely new extensions created by me, plus a couple that we at George James Software published previously.

The new extensions are:

• gj :: codeSpex
• ObjectScript Class View
• ServerDiff

How many times do we find ourselves rebuilding, copy-pasting, adapting, Business Operations that make calls to REST services, and only adapting one or another part of the final code. This is annoying a lot. To resolve this our inconvenience, I present to you Interopway REST, a set of classes (a micro framework) that allows us to just add Business Operation to Production and use it.

The project is hosted on github, https://github.com/cristianojs/interopway_rest, it is open and we are accepting collaborations.

Let's understand how this works.

Transport Objects

Hi Community,

Let's meet together at the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest – a great opportunity to have a discussion with the InterSystems Experts team as well as our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Thursday, April 27, 12 pm EDT | 6 pm CEST

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest! 

Thank you to all our amazing participants who submitted 8 applications 🔥 

Hi Developers!

Here is the score of technical bonuses for participants' applications in the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2023!

Hi Community,

It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest:

🔥 VOTE FOR THE BEST APPS 🔥

How to vote? Details below.

Here're the technology bonuses for the InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest 2023 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• IntegratedML usage
• Online Demo
• Article on Developer Community
• The second article on Developer Community
• Video on YouTube
• First Time Contribution
• Community Idea Implementation
• IRIS Cloud SQL Survey

See the details below.

Hey Developers,

We'd like to invite you to join our next contest dedicated to creating AI/ML solutions that use Cloud SQL to work with data: 

🏆 InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and IntegratedML Contest 🏆

Duration: April 3 - April 23, 2023

Prize pool: $13,500

InterSystems Production Monitor is a page in Management Portal to display monitoring information for the current running production. I like the page as it comes, but one size does not fit all.

On May 13, 2022 I read this post on Developer Community:

https://community.intersystems.com/post/creating-custom-monitoring-page

I agree with Mark that Production Monitor is complex. I liked the idea to create a nice clean clear monitor page.

I began to work on a Cache Server Page utilizing class methods to provide the production data.

Hi Developers!

We have great new articles for your to read and enjoy, thanks to our wonderful participants of the 4th InterSystems Tech Article Contest: InterSystems IRIS Tutorials!

🌟 24 AMAZING ARTICLES 🌟

And now it's time to announce the winners!

Let's meet the winners and their articles:

Hello Community,

After the last heated programming contest, we're happy to announce the next InterSystems technical article writing competition!

✍️ Tech Article Contest: InterSystems IRIS Tutorials ✍️

Write an article that can be considered a tutorial for InterSystems IRIS  programmers of any level: beginner / middle / senior from March 1st to March 31st.

🎁 Prizes for everyone: A special prize pack for each author who takes part in the competition!

🏆 Main Prizes: There are 6 prizes to choose from. 

Hey Community!

Here are the bonuses for participants' articles that take part in the Tech Article Contest: InterSystems IRIS Tutorials:

It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest! 

But first, we'd like to say Thank you to all our amazing participants who submitted 21 applications 🔥 

We are thrilled to know that you think this subject is important! Now, without further ado, the winners are...

Hi Community,

Welcome to the second InterSystems Spanish technical article writing competition! Write an article in Spanish on any topic related to InterSystems technology:

🏆 2nd Spanish Téch Article Contest 🏆

Duration: February 6 - 28, 2023

Prizes for everyone: Everyone who publishes an article on Spanish Dev Community during this period will receive a special prize!

Several main prizes included!

➡️ Full details can be found in the original post.

Hi Community,

Let's meet together at the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest – a great opportunity to have a discussion with the InterSystems Experts team as well as our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Thursday, February 16, 5 PM GMT | 12 PM EST 

Hi Developers!

Here is the score of technical bonuses for participants' applications in the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2023!

Hi Community,

In the first part, we describe all packages, used libraries and REST services.

Now, I would like to add some details about converter and validator services.

By default, OpenAPI-Suite sends an HTTP request to converter.swagger.io if the specification version is less than 3.0 and another HTTP request to validator.swagger.io to simplify the structure of the specification document.  

I just released an update of the gj :: codeSpex extension containing a new feature - Exclusions.

There's now a short video demonstrating how exclusions can help you focus on the packages you're less familiar with. The video also illustrates how with the ObjectScript Class View extension you can easily explore the inheritance of your classes.

Both extensions are members of the DX Jetpack, my entry in the 2023 Developer Tools contest. Voting closes very soon, so if you like what I've created please encourage me to do more by VOTING FOR ME here.

If you haven’t already please give @John Murray your vote in the Developer Tool contest >> http://bit.ly/3XcxyeS

🚀 DX Jetpack boosts your developer experience when using VS Code with InterSystems platforms. 🚀

This extension pack includes: 

gj :: codeSpex - showing help using VS code's commenting feature.

ObjectScript class view - View and navigate all class members plus where they are inherited from.

ServerDiff - See the difference between the code you are editing in VS Code and the server copy.

You can vote here >> http://bit.ly/3XcxyeS

Hey community! 

It's time to elevate your unit tests to the next level with iris-TripleSlash new solo feature!

We are bring to the game Setup and Tear down events!
Just add description on class, with special tags like:

• beforeAll
• beforeOne
• afterAll
• afterOne

The tripleSlash will turn it to:

• OnBeforeAllTests
• OnBeforeOneTest
• OnAfterAllTests
• OnAfterOneTest

And that's not all! The new double dot abbreviation feature allows you to effortlessly call methods and simplify your code, i.e.:

///<example>/// Write ..TheAnswerForEverything()/// 42///</example>

Here're the technology bonuses for the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2023 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• Embedded Python usage
• Docker container usage
• ZPM Package Deployment
• Online Demo
• Code Quality pass
• Article on Developer Community
• The second article on Developer Community
• Video on YouTube
• First Time Contribution
• Community Idea Implementation

See the details below.

Embedded Python - 3 points

Use Embedded Python in your application and collect 3 extra points. You'll need at least InterSystems IRIS 2021.2 for it.

Docker container usage - 2 points

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: 

🏆 InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 🏆

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