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Entries for July 2010

Happy 14th Anniversary DMC!

Remember When, 1996: "Macarena" was at the top of the charts NBC had 8 of the top 10 shows, including ER, Seinfeld & Friends, (and you could record those shows using a state of the art Hi-Fi 4-head VCR), Gas was going for abou...


Employee Spotlight: Danny Budzinski

Danny Budzinski, Project Engineer What do you like best about working at DMC?  It's great to solve problems for a living.  At DMC our customers come to us with such interesting and intricate challenges, and being involved in that ...


Is 1% a Big Deal?  Do the Math…

Of course the answer to this question can vary significantly, but far too often, ideas that are supposed to change things by 1% are dismissed prematurely. Why does this happen? To most people, the number 1 is a pretty small number. If you have to ...


DMC to Lead TMA Executive KPI Workshop

DMC will be leading the Tooling and Manufacturing Association's executive breakfast workshop on August 19, 2010. The event will focus on defining Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and using Microsoft SharePoint to achieve business goals. &ldqu...


Compiling 32-bit Apps for 64-bit Windows

32-bit applications have been around for a long time while 64-bit operating systems are only recently gaining popularity.  Therefore, I would expect that the 64-bit OS successors would make it easy to run legacy 32-bit apps.  And, they do a...


Bastille Day 2010

Ok, we really knew about this from the the Shamrock Shuffle earlier this year, but Johnathan Sullivan is now, without any ambiguity, proclaimed: "World's Fastest Engineer who works at DMC" I enjoyed being in that esteemed posit...


DMC SharePoint Video Blogs Now Available for MP3 Download

You are curious about SharePoint and KPI dashboards. You are still trying to determine the difference between SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint 2010, WSS and MOSS. You are not quite sure what KPI stands for. You also don’t have 7-10 extra minut...


While it is usually preferable to avoid mixing development environments for a project, sometimes we need to create a mixed platform solution.  In a recent project, I needed to create a class library in C# to interact with a LabVIEW 2009 SP1 appl...