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DMC Quote Board - March 2014

Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.    


DMC Digs In at Chicago Restaurant Week

Restaurant Week in Chicago was one of the few things that helped us Midwesterners pull through this year’s Polar Vortex. With a line-up of restaurants spanning cuisines from the east of Asia’s influence to the coasts of Peruvian perfectio...


Source Code Protection in Studio 5000 Logix Designer

While working with a customer on a recent RSLogix 5000 project (now called Studio 5000), there was a need to protect some proprietary source code. In this particular case, DMC had developed a custom Add-On Instruction (AOI) to be used within the proj...


Single Sign-on with Dynamics CRM External URL

Recently I was setting up an Internet Facing Deployment (IFD) for a new Dynamics CRM 2013 implementation. Luckily the process has not changed much since CRM 2011, and there are many blogs and even a whitepaper that cover the topic.  One of th...


VBScript Strings and Siemens HMI Smart Tags:  'Play nice, you two!'

String concatenation. If a programming language supports strings, it's going to support concatenating them. The means of doing so are usually straightforward and often times involve a simple library call or even a one character operator such a...


What's It Like to Start Working at DMC?

New beginnings aren't always easy, but DMC aims to welcome new employees by creating a unique starting experience for them. From day one on the job, employees are empowered, invited to dive in to project responsibilities, and greeted by our team&...


WinCC Professional Popups

For a recent project using WinCC Professional V12, I needed to have a pop up window that could change based on the screen window that the operator clicks (motor, VFD, valve, etc.). The popup also needed to have its location change based on where the ...


WhirlyBall Welcome, DMC Style

Our recent outing will definitely be inducted into the DMC Welcome Party Hall of Fame. For my welcome party we took our “talents” to WhirlyBall around the corner from our office. I had heard that WhirlyBall is a DMC favorite and I myself ...


DMC Boston's Holiday Party at the Liberty Hotel

Following the time honored tradition of holding our annual Holiday Party weeks (if not months) after the Holidays, we finally held our first ever DMC Boston Holiday Party last weekend. With a smaller group, we decided to do something a little more in...


Clarifying the Heart

The human heart is confusing and has befuddled countless musicians and poets. I’m here to throw engineering topics shed clarity on the issue and maybe even help someone like Taylor Swift understand a few things about the heart. Engineers lov...


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