This year has been an interesting year so far. We made it to the CLA Summit in Austin and the one in Germany. We couldn’t make it to the first CLA Summit in India, which is a shame, because until then I could say that I was the only non NI employee who had been … [Read more…]
I gave a presentation at NIWeek 2013 that turned out to be a lot more successful than I ever imagined. I was interviewed by VIshots, I was asked to give the same presentation at NI Days in Paris and my friend Steve Watts gave his own version at NI Days in London the same year. … [Read more…]
YAF stands for Yet Another Framework. I know a large number of LabVIEW developers either have their own templates, or would like to have their own templates. What I want to do is walk you through how we approached ours – because it was driven by some high-level principles we have learned about LabVIEW and also by some … [Read more…]
This blog post should be filed under the Public Service Announcement category. Recently, a customer contacted me with an issue he was observing when averaging a voltage measurement. He insisted that mean.vi was calculating the mean incorrectly! The code we were using was: The symptom was that the result of the mean operation seemed to always be the … [Read more…]
When I started solving problems using LabVIEW, my programs were usually very small. Back then, we didn’t even have the project explorer, so organization on disk was very important. It was very common to have a folder called Controls, another folder called subVIs, and the Main.vi on the root folder for the project. I still … [Read more…]
During the CLA Summit in Rome, I was surprised to see only a handful of hands raised when I asked how many people were familiar with the National Instruments Queued Message Handler project template that ships with LabVIEW 2012 and later. I can understand people not looking at the project templates, thinking they are similar … [Read more…]
I am a lucky LabVIEW Architect. I have made it to every single CLA Summit so far. The CLA Summits in the US and Europe are the most important events for my LabVIEW career every year. Not only do I get to continue my LabVIEW education, I also get to see my LabVIEW friends. This … [Read more…]