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I highly recommend *reviewing* the sample projects, as there are useful design patterns to learn and emulate, but the effort involved in refactoring the sample projects to meet the exam requirements is usually higher than writing code from scratch that follows a similar design pattern but directly matches exam requirements. Bear in mind with this exam that it is primarily graded on functionality (50%) and design (30%), with style (15%) and documentation (5%) worth much less. Compare this to the CLD, where style and documentation are collectively worth 25 out of 40 points (62.5%). Your strategy for time management during the exam should reflect this. I wrote the sample exam for the CLED, and the solution provided is what I coded in 4 hours of time (yes, including the icons). I expect, like MKerry says, that if you could finish the sample in about 5 hours that you're on track to do well on the actual exam. The sample is more complicated than the actual exam.

The issue isn't so much accessing SQLite on network drives; I's concurrency. I can quite happily read and and write to my NAS boxes, but woe betide if you try and share the DB amongst clients. Just for giggles, I ran the Speed example and pointed it to my NAS box (over a wifi connection) and it achieved about 0.5 secs to insert and read 10,000 records. .

PRAGMA synchronous = OFF

As soon as possible, but not any time soon. There is a massive multi-year project standing in the way that has pulled in many developers, including myself. I happen to agree with the Powers That Be that this other project is a higher priority that will do more for our customers than interfaces would, but I still grit my teeth every time I'm working on a project that needs good interface design. It is on the roadmap, just not on the timeline I had hoped for when we released classes originally.

Personally my activity on LAVA (and NI) has increased a lot in the last "several years". Recently I've crossed over the 1000 post count on both forums. I never plan on attaining any status like Crelf here, or Altenbach on NI but I wanted to be more active. My current employer even made it a goal of mine last year to be more active on LAVA. Bonuses and pay raises are based on how well you work toward your goals so you could say I have added incentive.

Now NI will sue the pants off of them. See what I did there? Because their a clothing store? /crickets

In case you guys were still wondering what happened to our Tesla Museum... here are some news on the matter: http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/14/electric-cruisebeast-creator-elon-musk-tells-the-oatmeal-hes-happy-to-help-fund-tesla-museum/?ncid=rss Enjoy, Fab