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A Simple Guide to Material UI Grids

If you’ve ever had to work with UI frameworks, you know that they can save lots of time on a project. I recently set up a layout for a complicated system using Material UI Grids for the first time. Since I didn't find any sim...


Editing Tag Alarms via Scripting in Ignition

The Ignition platform, created by Inductive Automation, is a powerful tool for system integration. One of its most versatile features is the ability to attach Python scripts to practically any component or property on changes, actions, timers, etc. I...


Microsoft End of Extended Support for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Office 2010 Applications

On January 14, 2020, Microsoft officially ended its extended support for Windows 7. This means that Microsoft will no longer offer security patches or bug fixes for users still running the 11-year-old operating system. At the time 26% of all Windows ...


Using Dropdowns to Set Tag-Paths in Ignition

Ignition is a versatile SCADA platform from Inductive Automation that is quickly becoming one of the top choices for industrial automation solutions. Ignition can run on a variety of platforms and interfaces easily with many field IO devices using it...


MQTT Ignition Communication with an Edge Gateway

Supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA for short, is a widely used control system architecture that allows for operators to control industrial processes both locally and remotely. One SCADA platform DMC has significant experience wit...


5 Advanced UI Design Hacks for Beginners

As a UX/UI Designer, there are so many tips and tricks I wish I knew from the start. Several quick little “quality of life things” that I know now would have sped up my workflow and improved my designs. These things often come from experi...


4 Tips for Launching a Product on Emerging Cellular Networks

The major cellular network providers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile) have launched or are in the process of launching upgrades to their LTE networks that will enable the deployment of millions of new, previously impractical IoT solutions...


Android 10 Logo & Identity Review

Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White. Soon after its creation, it was acquired by Google in 2005, and first released to the public in 2008. Android is ...


TIA Portal Autosave with Openness

Sometimes my computer crashes. Sometimes I forget to save for extended periods of time while I’m developing code in TIA Portal. When these events coincide, I don’t have a good time. However, with a little bit of C# .NET knowledge this pro...


Duplicating Related Entities using Entity Framework Core

This blog will show how to use Entity Framework Core to copy multiple related entities stored in a SQL database while maintaining their keyed relationships. While EF Core doesn’t offer a `Copy` method, there are simple ways to duplicate an e...


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