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New LabVIEW Video Blog - Tip Jar

There's a new LabVIEW (video) blogger named Ben Zimmer, over at the LabVIEW Mastery Tip Jar Blog, who has been creating some useful videos about LabVIEW.  His most recent video blog post about OpenG is great.  It gives a very quick introduction to OpenG and how to install it and then shows some of his favorite OpenG VIs in action. [...]

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 [...]

JKI and the LabVIEW Community

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 […]

My NIWeek 2007 Presentations

One the reasons that NIWeek 2007 was the Best NIWeek Ever was that I got to present four times! I gave the following two presentations (I presented the latter at three different times):

Using Free and Open Source LabVIEW Software
Developing Commercial Software Applications in LabVIEW

The first presentation, “Using Free and Open Source LabVIEW Software“, was […]

Best NIWeek Ever

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 […]

OpenG Class Templates for Object-Oriented Programming

Wow! It is a really exciting time to be a LabVIEW software developer. For the first time ever, we have the ability to create and edit by-reference classes and create our own class templates for use within the LabVIEW project environment, for the low-low price of free! This is all possible due […]

OpenG is an unfair advantage

Two years ago, I won the LabVIEW coding challenge at NI Week 2005. People speculate that I had an unfair advantage because I used OpenG libraries (which, as most of you know, I couldn’t live without). But, everyone who was competing had access to the OpenG libraries (since they were installed on each […]

OpenG Wiki

I put on my IT systems administrator hat, yesterday, (which is not nearly as much fun as wearing my LabVIEW developer hat) and installed MediaWiki on the OpenG.org website. I’m really excited about the new OpenG wiki, since it will give the open source LabVIEW community a good way to collaborate on OpenG […]

I couldn’t live without “Conditional Auto-Indexing Tunnel”

This is the tenth article of “The OpenG VIs that I couldn’t live without“, a series of articles showing some of my favorite OpenG VIs. In this article, I’m going to show a very useful VIs called the Conditional Auto-Indexing Tunnel, which is a powerful tool for conditional filtering of 1D arrays.

This VI filters […]

I couldn’t live without relative path inputs to file constants

This is the ninth article of “The OpenG VIs that I couldn’t live without“, a series of articles showing some of my favorite OpenG VIs. In this article, I’m going to show you a great hidden feature of the OpenG File Tools library: relative path inputs to file constants. You might have noticed […]