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I couldn’t live without “File>>Locate in Project”

This is another article in a series showing some of my favorite OpenG VIs -- "The OpenG VIs that I couldn't live without". In this article, I'm going to show a very useful tool called the Locate File in Project, which gives you an easy way of finding VIs in the Project Explorer. If you have this tool installed, it will [...]

LabVIEW for Everyone… even 10 year old wiz kids

One of the stars of NIWeek 2007 was a 10 year old wiz kid named Samuel Majors, who is using LabVIEW to automate his model train sets. Samuel was featured during a part of the keynote on Thursday, August 9th titled "Future Scientists and Engineers" (see [...]

Functional Globals in LabVIEW 8.5 - No Loop, No Joke

( LAVA and LabVIEW and LabVIEW Tips )

As an April fools day joke this year, I posted a VI on LAVA that shows an implementation of a Functional Global that appears to not have any While Loop or For Loop around the Feedback Node. This trick was accomplished by making the While Loop very large (extending beyond the visible region of the [...]

JKI and the LabVIEW Community

( JKI and LAVA and LabVIEW and NI Week and OpenG )

One the reasons that NIWeek 2007 was the Best NIWeek Ever was that during the NIWeek 2007 Alliance Day keynote, NI showed a slide called “The LabVIEW Community Online” (shown above) which included JKI’s logo! This slide displayed the logos of various LabVIEW community websites, including discussion forums, blogs, etc. I was extremely [...]

Should your Commercial LabVIEW Application be Cross-Platform?

One of the great things about LabVIEW is that it supports several platforms. However, being cross-platform is not always trivial, especially if your application is a stand-alone executable (as opposed to a reuse library distributed in source code form).

In order to decide whether you should be cross-platform compatible, first consider whether you need to. [...]

SuperFunkyPrivateSpecialSecretForumStuff=LAVA

( LAVA and LabVIEW )

One the reasons that NIWeek 2007 was the Best NIWeek Ever was that we found out about a new easter egg (hidden feature) in LabVIEW 8.5.
Enter “SuperFunkyPrivateSpecialSecretForumStuff=LAVA” into your LabVIEW.ini file and you will see the LabVIEW Advanced Virtual Architects (LAVA) logo on your LabVIEW 8.5 splash screen

[UPDATE] Here is the t-shirt that [...]

Password Protecting VIs is Security Through Obscurity

I have a huge problem with password protected VIs. It gives people false assurance that nobody will be able to see the intellectual property contained in a VI’s block diagram (the source code).
The basis of my argument is that, behind the scenes, LabVIEW accesses a VI’s block diagram to recompile it for other platforms [...]

Best NIWeek Ever

( Books and LAVA and LabVIEW and NI Week and OpenG )

While you were busy installing LabVIEW 8.5 in the 5th dimension, alfa…
I was having the BEST NIWEEK EVER!

I got to present four times!
Michael’s XControls presentation rocked!
I got to sit in the front row at every keynote!
JKI was recognized by NI during a keynote as being an important part of the LabVIEW Community Ecosystem!
JKI’s booth location [...]

VMware IPO

It’s been a long time since the heyday of high-tech IPOs that occurred in the late 1990’s, here in Silicon Valley. So, it’s very exciting that VMware (NYSE: VMW) is having its IPO this morning (Aug 14th, 2007).

Anyone who knows me (in a technical capacity) knows I LOVE LOVE LOVE (did I mention that [...]

JKI at NIWeek 2007

( JKI and LabVIEW and NI Week )

All next week, I’ll be at NIWeek 2007, along with the rest of the JKI team. This year will be very exciting as there is a lot going on…
JKI Technical Presentations
JKI will be presenting at three technical sessions:

Developing Commercial Software Applications in LabVIEW
Session ID: TS1560
Presenter: Jim Kring
Time (Location):
* Monday, 10:30 AM (Room 13) [Session [...]