In this issue....
- Synergy/DE 11.1.1h Is Here
- How We Successfully Pulled Off Our First Remote Conference
- MVVM or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ViewModel
- What’s New in the Resource Center?
- Elevate Your Endpoints
- Tech Tip
- and more
Synergy/DE 11.1.1h Is Here
Synergex is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Synergy/DE 11.1.1h on all platforms. This update includes a wide range of improvements across the entire Synergy product line, including isutl enhancements and an important xfServer fix. We strongly encourage you to review the release notes for detailed change information.
Synergy/DE 11.1.1h is available for download in the Resource Center now.
Virtual Reality: How We Successfully Pulled Off Our First Remote Conference
When the pandemic hit and upended everything, we had no idea that within a year, we’d have to completely reconceptualize and adapt our entire conference blueprint for a virtual audience while providing the same educational value and keeping the communal spirit of our in-person gatherings. In the end, we were able to present 16 content-packed virtual sessions to a record number of attendees that, thanks to a boatload of planning and persistence, went off with barely a hitch.
Here’s how we did it.
Want to watch again?
If you’d like a refresher, or if you missed the conference the first time around, you can now watch most of the sessions on our YouTube channel.
TECH ARTICLE
MVVM or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ViewModel
By Johnson Luong, Software Engineer
Have you ever walked down the street and suddenly thought, “I just can’t figure out how to decouple my application model from its view to make it easier to refactor my code. What am I to do?” If so, do I have a solution for you! It’s a design pattern called MVVM, which is short for Model-View-ViewModel, and it separates development of the UI (the view) from your business logic and data (the model). This separation enables you to develop the UI and logic individually, and it ensures that a change to one won’t require a drastic change to the other.
What’s New in the Resource Center?
The Synergex Resource Center has been the go-to place for Synergy developers for years, whether you want to make your voice heard in the Ideas forum or get some help in Answers. It’s the best way to get the most out of your Synergy developer community, and now it’s even better!
The Resource Center has undergone some big changes lately (like our revamped KnowledgeBase and the updated licensing admin section), so we've put together a series of tutorials to guide you through the updates.
Elevate Your Endpoints
By Liz Wilson, Education Specialist/Digital Producer
If you’ve checked out our GitHub documentation, attended an office hours session, or watched a web services–related video on our YouTube channel, you may know that OData is a critical layer of the tech stack that makes up our open-source Harmony Core solution. There are several reasons for this: OData is standards-based, it supports query validation (so you can choose the data available to users in a given context), and the learning curve is minimal.
Developers can look at a sample OData request and immediately get a sense of what is being asked for, and our implementation of OData emits JSON, a standards-based data format that other programming languages can parse with ease.
OData is easy to work with, but it’s important to know how to make the most of Harmony Core’s API functionality, beyond just the basics. Here are some tips for maximizing the readability and performance of the APIs that you will be generating via Harmony Core’s OData services.
Tech Tip
Determining the installed version of Synergy/DE
To find out what version of Synergy/DE is installed on a system, do the following:
1. From a command prompt or the command line, navigate to your dbl\bin directory.
2. Type dbs and press Enter twice.
This command executes the non-interactive Synergy dbs runtime and will display “Synergy DBL Runtime for platform version,” e.g., “Synergy DBL Runtime for MS-Windows X64 v11.1.1f.”
On Windows, an alternate method is to open Windows Control Panel and go to Programs and Features. Scroll down the list of programs to "Synergy/DE" and you'll see the version number. You can see other installed Synergy products, such as xfNetLink, and their versions also in this list.
Fun Fact
Google processes approximately 63,000 search queries every second, translating to 5.6 billion searches per day and approximately 2 trillion global searches per year.
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