Every year, Intersystems holds a big developers conference, where
customers/VARs can interact with the product developers, the
management
and even pay golf if they like. We really want to encourage the MV
community to come to this, if for nothing else just to see how
serious
the company is, so it has been decided that there will be a discount
offered if you are coming in from the MV world. This is a good chance
to ask other VARs that came form the mumps world (and newer) how they
get on with the company, whether they are looked after, and all sorts
of other questions that only other people in the same position can
answer honestly.

I highly recommend this conference as you will see the difference
that
having an actively developed and promoted product makes to your
applications in terms of technology, support and future.


I hope you will see the value and seriously consider the offer,


Jim


There now follows the marketing blurb:


MultiValue developers can save 40% off the registration fee for
InterSystems DEVCON 2007, the annual gathering of the InterSystems
community. It will be held from March 25th through March 28th, 2007
in
Orlando, Florida, and features several sessions and free training
opportunities tailored to MultiValue developers.


- For more information please visit
http://www.InterSystems.com/devconMV.
- Note: You must register before March 5th to receive the special
MultiValue rate.

I wrote up some notes on my recent exposure to Caché:
http://
removethisNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech
/2007/02/cache-first-exposure.html

Sorry about the long URL that needs to be sewn together. We're
migrating to a new web host and I'm trying to implement a new
reference scheme without breaking existing links.

T
TG@ always.remove.this.partNebula-RnD.com

"Jim Idle" wrote:

On Feb 7, 2:55 pm, Tony Gravagno
<g6q3x9lu53... (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com.invalid> wrote:
Windows keyboard. IF you have the langauge stuff installed correctly
on your system you can get any accented character by typing CTRL-
accentchar followed by the letter to accent. As in: CTRL+'e. CTRL+SHIFT
+^e and so on. Comes in handy if you type Cache' 200 times a day ;-)

Jim

On Feb 8, 11:33 am, "Jim Idle" <j... (AT) temporal-wave (DOT) com> wrote:

Good tip, Jim. I just checked it out in Word and it worked. I had
almost decided to drop the idea of possibly using Cache' just because
of that dang e, but you saved it with this helpful info. smiles. --
dawn

"Jim Idle" wrote:

I write a lengthy business and technical commentary about software for
which you've just invested a couple years of your life, and your
response to me is on a different way to use the keyboard?
LOL Jim, you're a trip.

OK, on that topic, your audience consists of mostly english speaking
people who don't have other languages installed on their systems. My
method speaks to your target audience, yours does not. I just had a
discussion with one of your colleagues about this very topic -
addressing your target audience, not keyboards. It's probably the
only area in which InterSystems falls a little short - and while
that's very important, it's a problem that's easily fixed.

We'll be talking soon I'm sure.
T

On 2007-02-08 10:45:36 -0800, "dawn" <dawnwolthuis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> said:

On Mac OS X, use alt-e, e to get the é.

:-)

Regards,

Clif

Jim

Are there any .pdf documents on the Intersystems site which give an
introduction to Cache for MV people? There is information on the site,
but it is all on-line documentation. I find it very uncomfortable
reading documentation on-line. I much prefer .pdf documents.

If there are any .pdf documents, would you be kind enough to post the
url here.

Thanks

Jim Idle wrote:

On Feb 9, 8:33 am, sh <sham... (AT) prupipe (DOT) com> wrote:
You can download the install and install it. If you allow it to start
the intro page it will point you to a local copy of the HTML based
documentation, so you don't have to be online to read it:

http://www.intersystems.com/mv/

I must admit that I have never quite understood why anyone would
actually LIKE pdf, even with something other than the horrendus Adobe
reader (such as the reader on my MAC or Foxit), but I gave up telling
people what they should or should not do or like a long time ago...
err, hang on, no I didn't, what am I talking about? ;-)

http://www.intersystems.com/cache/do...mentation.html

Will give you the genreal documentation of Cache' 5.2 (I am not sure
about the pdfs for the MV stuff though). The releases are like this:
There is 5.2, which does not include the MV stuff and a 5.2_MV release
which does (this was just for development convenience). The next
release is called Cache 2007.2 and it is the same release for everyone
whether you use the MV stuff or not and that's how it will always be
from that point on. There will be a final version of the 5.2_mv
release on the web site shortly, after which there will be 2007.2
releases avaiable to customers and application partners who are in the
process of a port (mind you who isn't doing this right now - it seems
like everyone is! ;-) )

Jim

Life Schmife. I still haven't found a programmer's keyboard that I
really like and that's much more important. And anyway I am learning
Hindi right now and while the office 2007 HIndi langauge set is good,
try typing that on a US keyboard!

BTW - I strongly suspect that CTLR+' e works even if you only have the
en_US or en_UK langauge set installed (thoguh I could be wrong).

If you really want to know/do something about Cache' though, you could
compare the query performance with and without indexes against other
platforms for me. And then with multiple indexes :-) If the results
are good, you can even report them ;-)

Jim

Jim

I downloaded the full .pdf documentation. It created something like 75
different .pdf files, with names like "ABAS_FAQ", "ACHUI_Mgnt"
(gezuntheit), "ACOP", "ACSP", etc. Do they really expect me to open 75
files to see which one is the Introduction .pdf? And I'm especially
interested in the documentation that gives an introduction to using .NET
languages with the database (there is no ITU.LWTD .pdf file).

I must admit that I have never quite understood why anyone would
actually **NOT** like pdf, even with something other than the horrendous
Adobe reader. It sure beats reading documentation on-line.


Jim Idle wrote: