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I think we both chose avatars that fit our personalities nicely

I imagined you writing that with exactly the look you have in your avatar ...lol.

For the 2015 LAVA BBQ, Delacor have teamed up with author, friend of Delacor and all round outstanding guy; Steve Watts at SSDC to offer a truly unique door prize. Steve has kindly signed a copy of his book "A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW" but not only that. Steve has included the draft / amended pages that would have gone into any potential future second edition of his book. These are the only copies of these pages anywhere in the world and you as a LAVA member can have a chance to win them (and the signed book itself)

Hi LAVA friends, We are pleased to announce that the Delacor Queued Message Handler (DQMH) is now available via the LabVIEW Tools Network: http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/213286 You can read about the thought process behind DQMH at our blog post: Ours is not better than yours (or YAF=Yet Another Framework) at WalkingTheWires.com The DQMH is based on the NI QMH Project Template. The DQMH expands on the NI QMH by providing safe, event-based message handling and scripting tools to encourage same style between different developers in the same project and improve efficiency. The DQMH is ideal for applications where multiple modules must run in parallel, possibly at different rates, while communicating with each other. The DQMH can also be used for applications that have a single module, where the developer would benefit from having a Tester with the capability of eavesdropping on the different DQMH events and messages. The DQMH integrates with TestStand since all development and troubleshooting can take place under LabVIEW, while calling the public API VIs as individual steps in the TestStand sequence. The tester can eavesdrop during the execution of the TestStand sequence. This is specially useful when the LabVIEW code is written during the research and development or prototyping phase, because the same code can be called by TestStand in production or manufacturing sequences without any changes. The DQMH uses LVOOP for some internal functions, but developers need not be familiar with LVOOP to use or understand this architecture. Try it out and let's us know what you think. Fab and the Delacor team.

Greetings Friends of LAVA, colleagues, cohorts, and Wireworkers Extraordinaire -- it's LAVA BBQ time! click here >> LAVA BBQ 2015 Event Page: Register and purchase tickets (Show us the ticket code on your phone when you arrive or print it out) Date: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 Time: 7:00-10:00pm (after the NIWeek Block Diagram Party) Location: Scholz Garten, 1607 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, TX 78701 (1 mile from Convention Center) Cost: $30 Early Bird (until July 17th) $35 Regular Admission (Until Aug 3rd) $40 At the door (Aug 4th) Meal Options: Standard meal is your choice of brisket, ribs, or chicken, with sides of beans, cole slaw, and potato salad. A vegetarian option is available to select during registration on the event page. Cash bar. Who: Everyone is welcome, including spouses traveling with you. Even if it’s your first time, expect to recognize many faces/names from the forums and NI R&D. What to wear: It’s an outdoor venue in Austin during August. So dress for the weather and comfort. Door Prizes: Towards the end of the event, we will have a raffle to give away prizes. All attendees are eligible and will receive a raffle ticket upon entry. Do you want to sponsor a door prize? - Continue Reading: If you or your company want to sponsor the LAVA 2015 BBQ door prize, please post a reply below. You can also include a small blurb about your company and a link to your website in the post below. By donating a prize you and your company will receive a small announcement of your choosing, during the event. We will ask you to write the announcement on a post-it note and will attach it to the prize to be read before awarding it. We would prefer a single item donation. If donating more than one item, then multiple identical items is preferred. If donating non-tangible items or something that is not physically with you. Then please bring a card with your contact info and instructions on how to collect the prize. This will be given to the winner. All prizes are acceptable except those listed below (examples from last year): Not recommended: Apparel (hats, t-shirts, underwear etc) Branded “trade show booth” type giveaways (mouse pads, pens, keychains etc) Software licenses (Toolkits, add-ons, Labview) Jokes or something meant as a gag and not a real prize. Hope to see you there! Chime in once you buy tickets to let everyone know you're coming.

Let's get a list of who's presenting what at NIWeek so that we don't have to rifle through the agenda to figure out whats actually worth going to!!! I've got 2 on alliance day (Monday) He Chose.....Wisely; Picking the right RF Software for your next RF Opportunity (2:30PM room 15) You can pick your customers, You can pick your SpecAn, but you can't pick your customers SpecAn (3:30 room 15) [specAn is a spectrum analyzer fwiw] For those of you a bit leery of an RF-centric presentation, consider that I usually hear this at least once after presenting; "that was very entertaining...I'm not sure if I understood it all...but it was entertaining" Looking forward to entertaining you all ~,~ The Captain Was Here....and will be there too. aka Norm Kirchner

Debugging them isn't free though

Sorta. Mark does this out of the kindness of his heart, and his enthusiasm for the community. Things happen and he might not be able to record a session, or the camera might break, or a presenter might ask him not to. There are reasons Mark might not be able to record and upload the sessions and I think having him publicly state which sessions he is going to attend might be unfair to him. That being said I sure hope Mark is able to record some of the sessions I can't go to. As usual there are a bit too many I want to go to on Thursday, and other days are lighter. If you do meet Mark, be sure and buy him a beer at the BBQ or some other event, he deserves it.

Yeah the original package you couldn't install is just a package that has nothing to it, except a dependency on the other packages. Sorta like a main release, made up of all the smaller releases. The new main release isn't made every time a smaller release is made, but instead once a significant number of updates have been made. It looks like it's been a while since there was a new release, so attached is a VIPC that should contain the updated versions. Note that the packages themselves are included, so internet is needed to get the packages if they don't exist in your cache already. OpenG 7-30-15.vipc

Side note: I did not know this and reading this made me very very happy.

Bolder Software will be in attendance again this year, we're looking forward to it! Traditionally, we like to encourage creativity as much as the technical appetite of this audience. Our door prize will be the LEAP Motion Controller: http://www.leapmotion.com/product/desktop Also, if we can get it done by next week, we're hoping to bring something edible for everyone. (Not that kind, just some sugar cookies!)

Aledyne will be giving away an Arduino Mega Starter kit:

Tecnova will be donating a Sphero 2.0 Robotic Ball

As a way of getting a LAVA community member geared up and ready for when we release the Raspberry Pi Compatible Compiler for LabVIEW, TSXperts will be donating a Raspberry Pi B+. http://www.tsxperts.com/labviewforraspberrypi/ See you all there! Filipe

G Systems will be giving away a Syma X5C-1 drone! Man, I wish I could order an extra one for "office use." Here is some footage from the drone from some youtube guy. Good luck, everyone! Click our logo below to check out our company.

Here is what you get when trying to find this thread through google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yO8f-fySnQ Now I want a steak. See everyone at the BBQ!

Can't wait for one of the most entertaining events of NIWeek. The LabVIEW Tools Network team will again be donating a brand-new myRIO for the Door Prize again this year. <Trippy, plasma app tornado not included>

Protip: attend Challenge the Champions in the Tech Theatre during the Block Diagram party on Tuesday nite -- there, you will find dozens of people headed to the BBQ. I'll email the moderator of that event to make an announcement to help facilitate BBQ-goers find each other in order to share cabs or walk together in droves. See you there!

Well with the password cracking thing, I can understand not wanting it to be posted here, as that can actually theoretically cause harm to companies that rely on the password protection to hide code. My opinion on the matter is that they were asking for it by relying on such an insecure system, but I understand if some people don't share my opinion. Same with the thread about enabling native XNode development that I posted with the admin's permission (and later changed my mind about and had removed after seeing what a negative response it was getting) just because of the kind of program you use to perform the hack. As for this, however, it's not really stuff that could in any way hurt the reputation of the forums, or harm NI or anyone else. I'm just trying to find and expose stuff that NI didn't see fit to release for one reason or another, but that advanced users might like to play around with outside of important work. For science. (You monster.)

Maybe we all need to start learning Polish.