When I talk with other graphical designers and hardware gurus here in Austin and mention that this is my first NIWeek, their eyes light up. “I still remember my first NIWeek! How do you like it?” they ask. Across the board our first impre...
The LAVA BBQ at Scholz Garten was last night here at NI week. I managed to score one of the last tickets and was offered the chance to catch a cab over to the venue. I declined on the cab because I had been sitting in sessions all da...
As Darren already posted in his blog post about attending NI week, the DMC trio of me, Ashley and Darren are all here learning about the new things happening with NI and there are some exciting new products being released. I am curren...
It's great to be back in Austin Texas for the annual National Instruments NIweek conference. Today is the first official day of the conference, where the largest ever audience (3300 people!) will be introduced to the latest products, trends, m...
On a recent project with LabVIEW, I was tasked with integrating a C# DLL into a LabVIEW application. The integration worked quite well and allowed us to integrate client generated code with the exising LabVIEW application. As the application has e...
Source Code Control (SCC) is universally acknowledged by developers as an important part of developing and maintaining projects. Effective use of takes discipline because what is not checked into the repository is not saved. Opening ...
Ever wish you could replicate the NI Measurement and Automation Explorer interfaces in LabVIEW code? You can! Download DMC DAQmx Assistant Tools For years I have been looking for a good implementation of NI MAX that I could encapsulate and thro...
Last month I attended the inaugural meeting of the Chicago LabVIEW User Group. A group of about thirty fellow LabVIEW users gathered in Schaumburg for the first event. Traditionally, User Groups hearken back to the early tech days of subsets...
DMC will join leading companies to host the National Instruments Technical Symposium that builds on the success of NIWeek, the worldwide virtual instrumentation conference and exhibition held annually in Austin, Texas, where the company is headquarte...
Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are bringing new test and validation challenges to the automotive industry as we rapidly continue the long-awaited cross-over from internal combustion engines to fully elect...