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Why I blog

Recently, a couple blogs that I follow discussed why they blog.  I figured that I would add to the discussion by sharing why I blog... In 2002, I founded JKI, a LabVIEW consulting company that also dabbles in LabVIEW software product development.  When you work as a consultant, it's easy to start equating every hour as potential billable income, which makes it difficult (by simple [...]

Top 5 signs you’ve lost control of your reusable VIs

# 5 - You (and your team) aren't using the reuse library. You had big plans for your reusable VIs.  You organized them.  You had meetings to review them.  You assigned someone the job to clean them up and create a great big library for everyone to share.  But, that was years ago and, after the initial burst of effort and excitement, progress and interest tapered off.  You realized that [...]

Announcement: Comments RSS Feed for “Thinking in G”

I have just set up an RSS feed of all the comments on “Thinking in G” to make it easier for everyone to participate in the lively discussions that follow the articles.
And, I’d like to take this moment to give a big “thank you” to all the readers of Thinking in G — especially those […]

Cool New LabVIEW Project Features in 8.5

I just got done watching a great video tutorial of some cool new LabVIEW 8.5 project explorer features in Christina Rogers’ latest blog article, Project File Management Enhancements.
Here are some of the new favorites that got me excited:

Save As (on your project file) — LabVIEW 8.0 and 8.2 do not have Save As for a […]

Lazy Sunday

Yesterday, I didn’t get nearly enough work done. I was tired all day long and really dragging my feet. Well, it turns out that a bag of decaf (!?) coffee had somehow made it into rotation at the Kring household. It’s a good thing that this didn’t happen on a weekday.
I love […]

EXPRESSIONFLOW

Tomi Maila has just started blogging about LabVIEW and visual programming on his blog site, EXPRESSIONFLOW. If you’ve been involved in the LabVIEW community for the past couple of years, then you know that Tomi has a lot to say about LabVIEW and object-oriented programming in LabVIEW. I’ve been reading Tomi’s postings on […]

Why LabVIEW certification matters (to me)

The value of obtaining LabVIEW Certification is a topic of heated debate within the LabVIEW community. Some people seem very offended by the thought that they should take a test to prove that they can write good LabVIEW code. Certainly, there are people for whom certification matters and others for whom it does not matter. […]

Moving is a pain

Moving to a new home is one of those things that gets harder to do, as life goes on. This is probably due to a combination of factors: as time goes by, we get more stuff, the stuff we get is increasingly heavier, and it gets harder for our aging bodies to carry all […]

Refactoring the ReferenceObject example in LV 8.2

When I first got my hands on LabVIEW 8.2, I was really curious to see some of the shipping examples that show how to use the native object-oriented features in 8.2. I was extremely happy to see an example on objects by reference (ReferenceObject.lvproj).
Now, I’m not going to get into a debate on which […]

Eyes on VIs: a new LV blog by Christina Rogers

There is a new LabVIEW blogger in town and her name is Christina Rogers. The blog is titled Eyes on VIs and we should consider ourselves very lucky that Christina will posting articles and her thoughts on various LabVIEW topics — she has been a long-time member of the LabVIEW R&D team at NI […]