Entries for 'John Sullivan'

Recently DMC developed a high speed vision inspection system using LabVIEW. This system inspects many different parts and each part requires different inspection criteria, so we needed to develop a user interface (UI) that could be used to configure the current products, as well as be flexible enough to configure new products. The manufacturing machine was already running on a Windows CE device... [Read the rest of this blog...]

Recently, six DMC engineers and two significant others took a three-day weekend to hit the slopes in Breckenridge, CO.  We left on Thursday afternoon, and were at Denver International Airport early in the evening.  A quick grocery run and drive up the mountain gets the eight of us to our condo that is a only a football field’s walk to the lift. We are greeted by 4 inche... [Read the rest of this blog...]

Recently I was working on a project using several threads in C#. I had four threads; one for the Main UI, one for serial communication with some force sensors, one operating a motion controller, and the final one used to perform user defined scripts. When using multiple threads it is important to control the method of information transfer between threads. Although some older softwar... [Read the rest of this blog...]

Why Search Server Express(SSE) instead of Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) search? SSE provides a number of benefits over the built in WSS search.  You are basically getting the paid enterprise search from MOSS without the licensing fees.  It gives you the ability to search multiple scopes/site, have a central search site location, improved crawling, and many other features. Installat... [Read the rest of this blog...]