Although the NI Report Generation Toolkit has its cons—namely, dependencies—it can be very particularly useful to programmatically save, create, and/or print a clean report in MS Word or MS Excel. The purpose of this blog is to share s...
I know it might be hard to believe given my LabVIEW Architect status and 5+ years’ experience, but I arrived in muggy-but-nice Austin, TX this afternoon for my very first NI Week. No matter what the weather has been like in Chicago this summer,...
Although I have admittedly not been keeping pace with the rate of elimination of the other big tournaments this month, I like to think that the delay between updates is building at least some semblance of suspense. Even if most of my coworkers think ...
With the first few rounds of the tournament in the books, I figured it was time to dive into the first round of our programming language tournament (or Nerdament as I like to call it.) For a rundown of the competitors, you can check out the opening b...
With the first few games of the NCAA tourney coming up fast, I wanted to address some of the hard feelings from the creation of the tournament field. If you missed the selection round, you can review the picks and the seedings here. Note that despite...
With the final few plays of the super bowl still fresh in mind, we enter March on the verge of another of the greatest events in sports, the March Madness of Programming Languages. This epic, world-renowned event (not to be confused with the sim...
DMC's LabVIEW logging framework has been upgraded to LLAMA. Learn more. What is it? Many developers may be familiar with the concept of a logging platform. Essentially, a logging platform is a modular system that is designed to be plugged...
Let’s face it, engineers and scientists like graphs. It’s very common for a user to desire an image capture of data displayed in their program to share with their friends and colleagues. There’s quite a few nice features...
Our new deck isn't the only way we're expanding our ceiling here at DMC. We're very proud to build on our technical dominance with new LabVIEW certifications! Congratulations to our newest LabVIEW Certified Architects, Jesse Bats...
Like any university, LabVIEW U wasn't just about courses. Part of the joy of attending NIWeek was experiencing Austin with my coworkers and hanging out with other engineers. We had the good luck of staying right by the Congress Aven...