Jim Kring

QUOTE (abullen @ Jun 21 2008, 12:46 PM) But, marketing doesn't have to be evil -- e.g., permission-based marketing where high-quality products/information are provided to customers while respecting their rights to choose how and when they receive messages. I'm a big fan of Seth Godin, who preaches such principles. I try hard to follow these principles at JKI with our various product development and marketing efforts.

QUOTE (rolfk @ Jun 21 2008, 01:06 AM) I'm actually not bitter. I just couldn't pass up an opportunity to have a little fun at the expense of IT folks. Yes, this problem is really only an issue for some large organizations. QUOTE (crelf @ Jun 21 2008, 04:18 AM) My IT Department's so awesome, they just announced a series of lunch 'n' learn sessions where they'll be covering some more advanced tool topics (advanced sharepoint, etc), and they actually asked the engineers what they would like to have covered. As a consequence, an advanced Subversion class isn't far away. Cool! If you learn anything valuable, let us all know.

Someone in NI's marketing dept has made me a custom badge icon. Actually, I just ripped this from the Conference Highlights brochure that NI mailed out this week: PS - Is that a VIPM awareness bracelet on Justin's (?) arm and half of Michael's head?

QUOTE (crelf @ Jun 19 2008, 09:46 AM) Wow! You're IT dept takes care of stuff? That's great! I thought IT just told people not to install software, prevented them from accessing web content, held onto new computers until they become obsolete, and walked around the buildings searching for "unauthorized" equipment plugged into the network.

QUOTE (Tom Bress @ Jun 18 2008, 09:56 AM) Tom, > BTW, I enjoy your Thinking in G blog. Thanks, I enjoy writing it and am very happy to hear that others enjoy reading it > My repository looks like this... I agree with jdunham -- I don't see anything wrong with your repository or working copy setup that would inherently cause linkage issues. The problem probably has to do with with accidental cross/bad linkages. Did you ever have multiple working copies checked out that you were working on at about the same time? I'm like jdunham -- I commonly have the trunk and multiple branches checked out at the same time in sibling folders, but I'm extremely cautious/concious about VI linkage. -Jim

QUOTE (Tom Bress @ Jun 18 2008, 08:47 AM) Hi Tom, It would be helpful if you could describe a couple things: 1) What does your repository folder structure look like (with respect to trunk, branches, and tags)? 2) What does your working copy folder structure look like? Thanks, -Jim

QUOTE (Darren @ Jun 17 2008, 02:35 PM) You wacky Austin hippies. (I'm just a couple miles from Haight-Ashbury, myself.)

QUOTE (Justin Goeres @ Jun 17 2008, 01:57 PM) Could we use that as a refactoring tool to create reusable VIs? It could analyze the patterns in your code and identify frequently used snippits that should be made into subVIs.

QUOTE (PaulG. @ Jun 17 2008, 11:24 AM) So true. QUOTE (crelf @ Jun 17 2008, 11:41 AM) QUOTE (PaulG. @ Jun 17 2008, 02:24 PM) disease-of-use Love the term! I was thinking the same thing. I'm going to have to add that to my collection. QUOTE (Darren @ Jun 17 2008, 12:27 PM) I really dislike the palettes too...especially since everything was rearranged in 8.0. If only someone could do something about them! I mean, if somebody with my distaste for the palettes happened to work in LabVIEW R&D, then he could add a feature in the next LabVIEW release that allowed me to write VIs faster than ever before, without having to ever bring up the palettes again. Man, that would be so great! Oh well, maybe someday. Someday... Yes, I think that a hypothetical tool that obviates the need for palettes in many situations would be a huge useability step forward What I want is for LabVIEW to know which function I'm thinking about and to put it on my tooltip so that I can drop it. Is that what you're thinking of, too?

[cross-post] Hi All, I've written another article (actually a rant) about customizing the LabVIEW palettes. I hope you find it useful. Customizing the LabVIEW Palettes is (Ridiculously) Hard As usual, your thoughts, feedback, and stories of your related experiences are most welcome Thanks, -Jim

I'd like to be able to refresh the menus with an Application Method such as Application.Menus.Refresh(). This would be useful for updating the menus after installing items in the Tools menu. I'll bet you can imagine why we need this feature

QUOTE (crelf @ Jun 15 2008, 10:52 AM) And miss my chance to make millions in Internet theoretical dollars? http://lavag.org/old_files/monthly_06_2008/post-17-1213552719.jpg' target="_blank">

QUOTE (Justin Goeres @ Jun 15 2008, 09:11 AM) And, if you get the camouflage shirt, other LAVA members won't be able to find you By the way, what is Spoolie's commission on sales? QUOTE (crelf @ Jun 15 2008, 07:23 AM) :!: DO NOT customize the t-shirt at check out - choose Basic Dark T-Shirt - Black only. There is a bug in the zazzle software that stopped me from locking the design down - I have their technical support people working on it. One of the reasons we have the t-shirt is to demonstrate a united force at NI-Week, and if everyone shows up wearing different t-shirts, then that perception is much less effective. Those wearing non-black t-shirts will not be admitted to the LAVA BBQ. You mean that these other styles may one day become rare LAVA collectors items?

QUOTE (hooovahh @ Jun 12 2008, 09:42 AM) "Magma" would be a good name for the LAVA Premium Member group and private discussion forum area.

[cross-post] Hi All, I've written part II of my series on reuse libraries. I hope you find interesting and informative. As usual, I'm interested in your feedback Monolithic vs. Modular Software Reuse Libraries (Part II) Thanks, -Jim

QUOTE (MikaelH @ Jun 5 2008, 03:33 PM) Meet Spoolie, I coded him up and sent him to LTR, back in 2002 as a joke. Download File:post-17-1212706939.avi I wrote it as a VI, but it was somehow saved without the block diagram in 6.1. So, I just uploaded an AVI movie of the VI running.

QUOTE (crelf @ Jun 5 2008, 10:38 AM) You shall not defeat my MX Laser. http://lavag.org/old_files/monthly_06_2008/post-17-1212688190.jpg' target="_blank">

QUOTE (crelf @ Jun 5 2008, 09:35 AM) I challenge you to a duel.

QUOTE (martin@aerodynamics @ Jun 5 2008, 04:24 AM) Well, Martin, I was trying (with much restraint) to be modest by not mentioning it, but since you asked... http://lavag.org/old_files/monthly_06_2008/post-17-1212682614.png' target="_blank">

QUOTE (rolfk @ Jun 5 2008, 05:05 AM) Maybe the ISP requires http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP_before_SMTP' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">POP before SMTP -- requiring a log in to the POP server right before a log in to the SMTP server.

QUOTE (jebus @ Jun 5 2008, 12:26 AM) FYI, gmail requires TLS (SSL), which is not supported by the OpenG SMTP VIs. You might be able to get the OpenG SMTP VIs to work in conjunction with Stunnel (Universal SSL Wrapper), but I have never tried. The setup is non-trivial, but there are some examples, like this one, that can be found if you google "Stunnel gmail". good luck,

I took an online sample CLAD exam, recently, as a favor to someone at NI who wanted some feedback from advanced users. After I completed the exam, I started getting lots of emails from NI recommending that I sign up for LabVIEW training (even though I already have a CLA and other LabVIEW credentials). It's great that NI is giving us a personalized relationship with them, but if they don't put any effort into making it smart, then it's going harm more than it helps. :headbang:

QUOTE (aa9310 @ Jun 3 2008, 08:37 PM) Welcome to LAVA We're happy to have you here. You'll find that the LAVA members are all very patient and forgiving of language difficulties. However, I would try to avoid using very big red and blue fonts

QUOTE (Michael_Aivaliotis @ Jun 3 2008, 12:08 PM) works for me.

QUOTE (aa9310 @ Jun 2 2008, 11:18 PM) Hello, As one of the co-authors of LabVIEW for Everyone, I'm happy to hear that you've discovered the book and hope that you find it useful. By the way, the Chinese translation should be available very soon -- I believe that it's supposed to be published this month. As for more advanced books, I would certainly recommend LabVIEW: Advanced Programming Techniques and The LabVIEW Style Book. Cheers, -Jim Kring