Now Live: InterSystems Virtual Summit 2020

This year’s virtual edition of InterSystems’ annual conference reduces your travel time from 10+ hours of queuing and semi-napping in planes and airports to mere minutes or even seconds to reach your comfy Benelux couch or desk chair 🙂

Keynote sessions on product and industry topics are screening this week, with focus sessions and experience labs following next week. If you haven’t already, you can still register (for free) and enjoy the latest on InterSystems Data Platforms technology from the comfort of your WFH environment.

As you’ve probably experienced over the past half year, interaction and participation can be challenging during these virtual events, so InterSystems has a number of different channels through which you can share your ideas, feedback and questions. Next to the event platform‘s Lounge and per-session chat boxes, you can also submit your questions for the scheduled Q&A sessions with the InterSystems Data Platforms team upfront, through vs2020questions@intersystems.com. So no sun-drenched patio BBQ in Florida this year, but you are free to grill your favourite InterSystems experts digitally!

Looking forward to see you there, or at the next safe opportunity to get together in person again!

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Meeting 12/02/2020: Developer Community resources, IntegratedML, VSCode ObjectScript extension

At the next InterSystems Benelux Summit at Radisson Blu Astrid Hotel Antwerp, we kindly invite you to join us for our next CUG meeting at the second day of the summit (from 16:30 to 18:30). Participation to the user group and meetings is free of charge!

This meeting will again be as interactive as possible, so please don’t hesitate to exchange your experiences with the other CUG members!

Agenda:

• Resources for developers: Dev Community, Video, Open Exchange, Global Masters (Evgeny Shvarov, ISC Community manager)
• ObjectScript Package Manager (Evgeny Shvarov, ISC Community manager)
• IntegratedML demo (Alain Houf)
• VSCode ObjectScript demo (Dmitry Maslennikov)
• Networking and sharing of ideas, tips, …

We would like to ask all CUG members prior to this meeting to participate and suggest topics you’d like to be covered. We will discuss your ideas at this meeting. Thanks!

If you have questions about this meeting or suggestions for future topics, please contact the CUG.

Meeting 06/02/2019: IDE’s, DevOps and the future

At the next InterSystems Benelux Summit at Radisson Blu Astrid Hotel Antwerp, we kindly invite you to join us for our next CUG meeting at the second day of the summit (from 16:30 to 18:30). Participation to the user group and meetings is free of charge!

This meeting will again be as interactive as possible, so please don’t hesitate to exchange your experiences with the other CUG members!

Agenda:

• examples of working with third-party IDE’s
• development strategies & test environments
• the future: Caché and/or IRIS?

We would like to ask all CUG members prior to this meeting to participate and suggest topics you’d like to be covered. We will discuss your ideas at this meeting. Thanks!

If you have questions about this meeting or suggestions for future topics, please contact the CUG.

Meeting 25/10/2017: InterSystems IRIS, Vue.js – results

Thank you all for joining us at the latest CUG meeting and you can find the presentations below.

• Introduction & roadmap to InterSystems IRIS Data Platform (Alain Houf)
• Vue.js: one of the hottest development ecosystems, without learning curve! (Ward De Backer)
  Also download the examples: front-end and back-end code
• Future topics

We would like to ask all CUG members to participate and suggest future topics you’d like to be covered. Thanks!

If you have questions about this meeting or suggestions for future topics, please contact the CUG.

Meeting 25/10/2017: InterSystems IRIS, Vue.js, Security for dummies

At the next InterSystems Benelux Summit at Hotel Beveren, we kindly invite you to join us for our next CUG meeting at the second day of the summit (from 16:00 to 18:00). Participation to the user group and meetings is free of charge!

This meeting will again be as interactive as possible, so please don’t hesitate to exchange your experiences with the other CUG members!

Agenda (preliminary):

• 16:00 Introduction & roadmap to InterSystems IRIS Data Platform
• 16:30 Vue.js: one of the hottest development ecosystems, without learning curve!
• 17:15 Security for dummies:
  • how to use tokens or sessions
  • auditing for debugging
  • role escalation
• 17:50 Future topics, closing drink & networking

We would like to ask all CUG members prior to this meeting to participate and suggest future topics you’d like to be covered. We will discuss your ideas at the end of this meeting. Thanks!

If you have questions about this meeting or suggestions for future topics, please contact the CUG.

Meeting 13/06/2017: real-life tips & tricks, data migration, backup – results

Thank you all for joining us at the latest CUG meeting and you can find the presentations below.

• Introduction and agenda
• Real-life tips & tricks: sharing of coding tips, tricks and ideas based on a customer use case (Tones) – Danny Wijnschenk
• Data migration using newer Caché versions as front-end application server: use all modern Caché features while keeping your existing production databases on your existing Caché version/server – Alain Houf
• Caché backup and journaling – howto and best practices: which backup strategy to use, how to backup a live Caché system running 24×7, backup scripts, tips and tricks, how to fight ransomware, … – Ward De Backer

If you have questions about this meeting or suggestions for future topics, please contact the CUG.

Meeting 13/06/2017: real-life tips & tricks, data migration, backup

Our next CUG-meeting on Tuesday 13th June 2017, kindly hosted by InterSystems Benelux at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Antwerp (from 14:00 to 17:00), we would like to focus on the three most popular topics you voted for in our poll. We welcome you to this interesting afternoon meeting. Participation to the user group and meetings is free of charge!

This meeting will be as interactive as possible, so please don’t hesitate to exchange your experiences with the other CUG members!

Agenda:

• 14:00 Welcome with sandwiches
• Introduction
• Real-life tips & tricks: sharing of coding tips, tricks and ideas based on a customer use case (Tones)
• Data migration using newer Caché versions as front-end application server: use all modern Caché features while keeping your existing production databases on your existing Caché version/server
• Break
• Caché backup and journaling – howto and best practices: which backup strategy to use, how to backup a live Caché system running 24×7, backup scripts, tips and tricks, how to fight ransomware, …
• Interactive discussion on future topics (deployment practices, WRC, …)
• 17:00 Closing & networking

We would like to ask all CUG members prior to this meeting to participate and suggest future topics you’d like to be covered. We will discuss your ideas at the end of this meeting. Thanks!

If you have questions about this meeting or suggestions for future topics, please contact the CUG.

Meeting 13/06/2017: save the date & add your favourite subject!

For our next CUG-meeting (in Crowne Plaza Antwerp from 14:00 to 17:00), it would be really great if you can vote for one or more of your favourite subjects we can cover (don’t hesitate to add your own in the poll or – even better – leave a comment at the bottom):

 

If you have a comment or suggestion concerning this poll, you can enter and submit them to the CUG using this form:

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Announcement: example article series on web app development

On the InterSystems Developer Community, you can find an example article series on modern web app development. The series starts from scratch and should allow anyone without prior knowledge to install and test a small web app with modern JavaScript technologies.

It shows you step-by-step how to install a Node.js development environment first and create a small React app connecting to Caché. At the front-end, the example is using React and different kinds of back-ends integrated with Caché are covered in the example.

Don’t forget to check it out and give your feedback!

 

Training: online development resources

A list of websites containing a lot of development resources:

• InterSystems Developer Community
• CodeAcademy
• Code School
• Udemy

This list will be updated on a regular basis.