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Yeah, you were taking way too much bandwidth anyway... No wonder my Garden Inn connection was so sluggish.

Ha!

Sorry about that - it just seemed to grow uncontrollably.

However, in my defense, I was not violating any rules:

But I wonder how many other people I annoyed?

Haven't looked at this for a while but thanks for your input, I'll look into it. I'm running 8.6 (IT department's a bit slow) and that's what the code was written in. Annoying that it breaks just one major revision later,

I too, I find the project tags can change a lot between versions, making supporting multiple version of LabVIEW very difficult.

Of course it meant I couldn't hide in the back of the room during the sessions like I would usually do

Haha! And why would you want to do that?

Of course you couldn't have got more up front to the room than Norm did when he was pulling faces in front of the main camera (hilarious)

I think Ed got a good photo of it - has it been posted anywhere? I was classic.

(It was great meeting you in Austin.)

Same here!

The best part of the trip was getting to meet everyone from online.

I'm suddenly sorry I even brought this up in the first place.

You and me both

And yes, I had to go look up what a nuthugger is.

You guys don't nut-hug in America?

Weird

Cheers!

The Hilton "Garden Inn" is two blocks away from the bigger Hilton. It's 125$ and Internet is included.

Great point.

Internet was $13.95/day extra at Hilton.

Free wifi in the lobby tho.

Not at all - I'd say you're a regular bogan.

Awwwh, wanna go fo a ride 'n my monaro, mate?

Ok, so I went to a big fight in Oakland on the way home from NI Week.

Having just spend time in Austin, Texas I thought I would nice for me to represent the Longhorns if I got the chance to be on TV during the live PPV broadcast.

Just as a thank you for NI Week.

After the proverbial Thumbs-up and the mandatory Fist-pump, I whipped out my salute to Texas.

I thought I had the sign language correct.

Turns out that sticking my thumb out changes it from Representing Longhorns to I am a Heavy Metal Bogan

Thanks to Omar for pointing that one out to me!

I did however, manage to make the guy to the left of me chuckle.

He was able to flip out the correct sign language, so all was not lost?

<edit> Ok, ok, I probably look like a bogan either way

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So hopefully everyone has sobered up from NI Week. In planning for 2011 I'd like to know what people's experience with the local hotels was like and how much I should expect to pay. I checked a couple online and got prices from $140/night to $350/night.

NI Week discounts apply to a lot of hotels in downtown area.

Hilton Austin is very nice @ $140/night

Apparently there is one with a nicer pool tho.

Yer, that discussion thread is dead now anyways (it was only for NI Week).

The biggest thing I learnt from NI WEEK was to use Twitter - I am serious.

I've had an account for years (so I could register and hold my name) but never used it til last week.

The only problem I had is that not many peeps are following me, so if I tweeted it was kinda pointless.

But it was really helpful finding out what was happening by following others.

Using Twitter helped me stay in touch with what was happening at NI WEEK.

Ditto - after meeting him last week, this should be good

Starting to feel the pressure... hope I don't disappoint...

Actually there seems to be a small difference (~4 posts) between my count in the forum and my profile, so I actually can't change it yet!

Nobody has ever beaten me, and nobody ever will. Now *that's* a call out...

lol

Can you post an example explaining how this is done?

You can now download LabVIEW 2010 (see this thread) and try it out (even just to eval for 30 days).

My intention for this thread is to create a place where anyone can post additional information from the NI Week presentations - as the information may be distributed in multiple locations - so I can go to one thread to find it all.

If you have any links or code to share please post (I for one, can't wait to get my hands on some of the example code from the presentations!)

The challenges weren't actually particularly difficult...and I think I would have had a decent shot at defeating Darren.

Woohoo!!

Do we have our first, official, LAVA callout?

In the meantime to my above post, I have added in support for these tags to resolve My Computer target paths.

I can post the code if anyone is interested.

I upgraded on one system (the other was clean) with a few LabVIEW versions on it and it worked fine. I think MS worked hard to make up grading easy this time. Of course the safest approach would be to image the system so that you can roll back if something goes wrong.

The Bar-B-Queue was a blast this year.

Great job Justin, crelf, A-Q, Norm.

Can someone post AQ's music sheet so all the LAVA members can see it.

I can't seem to find mine.

Hey Mark, AQ posted it in this thread - but you have to follow the link to ni to download it.

What was the challenge?

Challenges really - multiple rounds where each round was a specific task

E.g. Code a LED display and show each number 0-9

Script a new VI that has Add primitive with inputs/outputs wired

Create a VI with a yellow wire and blue wire class connected to a build array that outputs a green wire

Create a race condition etc...

Best of 5, fastest person wins.

Hi mje. There is a LVMerge in Shared too (separate app).

Congratulations to Darren who won the NI Week 2010 coding challenge!

With a very impressive display of Scripting (and a little 2010 knowledge) in the final round.

Mark's Darren Defeater mouse was of no use...

Maybe the challenger could have thrown it at Darren to distract him???

I had a great time at the BBQ!

Me too.

Cheers to LAVA & OpenG, and to Justin for organizing it.

Congrats to OpenG for winning LabVIEW add-on of the year too!