PaulG.

All these must read books lead me to think, that OOP gives your software a lot of overhead. Not the code, but the design.

Felix

Indeed. The more I read and understand OOP the more I believe it's practical only in large applications or applications that could become large. And then OOP would be essential.

... Any way on an entry level test should I know Active X type questions? ... Does NI ask "trick" shift regester questions or just enough to tell you know how they work? You see whre I am going, so any more information or suggestions about the CLAD would help!

No. I do not believe you will be asked Active X questions on the CLAD exam.

Yes. NI asks "trick" questions. But they are not really "trick" questions. They ask some tough questions, and if my memory serves me correctly they love asking "trick" questions regarding shift registers and While and For Loops. NI just wants to know that you really understand how LV works.

Your best bet is to take the practice exam as many times as you can.

If you get any wrong answers make sure you know EXACTLY why you missed those questions and study that material throughly before taking the test again.

It's not an easy test. I took the practice test at least 3x before I took the final. And in the final I still managed to miss a few.

Best of luck.

I am transitioning from Lurker to non-lurker status now that the dust has settled on the new format of LAVA.

There used to be an option/link... that I would use that would just let me look ath the new posts in all forums. Could someone provide a link to whatever the equivelent is now?

Thank you,

Ben

Here ya' go. Welcome back, Ben.

Do you want to be geeky or practical?

Practical: LVOOP. Besides all the LV coding I do I've been getting into trouble lately with C and embedded. I'm determined to finally get my head around OO programming because it will help me in all three and add to my skill set. The concepts of OO programming make perfect sense at face value but getting something that seems so simple into code is going to take some work. Someone at NI recommended a book: The Object Oriented Thought Process to get my head around OO thinking. After that I think it's just writing code and and peer review.

Aristos Queue had some links in LAVA 1.0 and hopefully he can repost them here.

... my cow-orkers didn't get me a "Geek Goddess" mug for nuthin' .

You should be able to get a decent laptop for $500 to $1K. I have a mid-range 17" HP laptop I bought cheap (floor demo) years ago. It has done well with 7.11, 8.0, 8.20 and 8.5. It's running XP but if I were buying one now I would get it with Windows 7. I hear W7 has a lot less overhead and it is a lot less bloated than Vista and reportedly runs very well even on older laptops.

All that said, one thing I would not do is buy another HP unless it came with the operating system ONLY. HP's are notorious for bloatware. Mine included.

If I had to do it again I would stick with a name brand - and Dell would be my first choice. A lot of folks here swear by IBM thinkpads. They are OK, too. Not as inexpensive as you might like but they are solid.

I can't speak for 2009. I have no idea how it would run on a laptop.

I have the USB 6008 at home, too. Every self-respecting Test Engineer needs a cheap NI DAQ at home.

Alpha,

Thanks for posting the Hundred Monkeys Theory. Seems like there is an awful lot of assumptions in this theory, or is it just me?

And the illustration depicts apes, not monkeys.

I had a similar situation a while back. A coworker ("Fred") took a liking to our BS sessions and he would come in to my cube 1, 2, even 3x a day to shoot the breeze. I couldn't get him to shut up. He could go on for 20 minutes.

Seems I wasn't the only one in the department having problems with Fred. I brought it up to my boss and he diffused the situation. My boss would walk by my cube and if Fred was there he would say: "Hey, guys. Fred? What are you working on right now?" No more Fred.

Depending on my mood at the moment if I had had to bring it up I might not have been as diplomatic. (Flashback to a scene in the movie "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" where Steve Martin just UNLOADS on John Candy about his incessant talking)

I might have found myself in a similar situation as yours. Thanks to my boss's great management skills Fred and I still get along very well.

Edward Kennedy dies!

He was a very good politician...

I worked in Hyannis, MA; it was my best time in North America. I lived in the house of a priest. Kennedy family built a very nice catholic church in Hyannis.

Rest in Peace. You will be missed...

Ted Kennedy was beneath animal level. Ask Mary Jo Kopechne.

Sorry, everyone, I forgot to mention:

1. Get a screenshot programmatically

2. Working with LV 8.5.1.

Thanks a lot,

Daniel R.

Play around with this. I found it on The Dark Side.

A pendulum swinging is just eye candy.

Obviously someone who has never been in a room with an authentic cuckoo clock. I had a great aunt who had over a dozen of them. On the hour every hour all hell broke loose.

So I'm guessing using queues for applications that run 24 hrs a day is probably a bad idea.... I've written programs for controlling processes that would buffer up a bunch of data in a queue, analyze it, and adjust control parameters on-line then flush the queue. The whole time I'd assumed this memory was freed up, but instead I created a huge memory leak. Awesome . DEfinitely going to go about it some other wat next time....

I've used queues in similar ways in applications that ran all day and had no trouble with them. I did suffer from a few memory leaks early on in the application development, but they had nothing to do with the queues.

Speaking for America ... one of the few things we've done really wrong is not adapt to the metric system. I deal with both daily. Metric is SO MUCH simpler.

... Any suggestions?

User events.

You used to be able to get this close to runways here in the states if you were fortunate enough to live near a major airport. I spent a few years in Denver and (the now defunct) Stapleton IA had a hotspot to watch planes. It was a place to kill a Friday or Saturday night and drink . On Friday nights a 747 would be doing touch-and-goes for hours.

Sadly the modern age of terrorism won't allow much of that any more.

Sounds like LV is the least of your concerns. Have you looked for any Unix forums? That might be a lot of work since I'm assuming there are hundreds of them out there. Or even someone at Solaris?

I had an issue about a year ago that was a real show stopper and thought it was LV related. Even after the despair of virtually no hits after I tried Googleing my problem I managed to find a forum on the web site of the company that made the particular piece of hardware I was having trouble with. Part of the job of one of the company engineers was to monitor their forums and grant assistance where necessary. He helped me out in a very big way in a very short time.

You might get lucky on a Unix forum and run into someone who has done what you are trying to do a dozen times and walk you through it.

I don't get it.

I get it. Clever.

Via a friend of mine, so don't blame me. I just ported it to LabVIEW .

Hint: it needs to be in a For Loop with a 3 connected to the count terminal.

That's worthy of becoming someone's avatar.

And here I thought LAVA Lounge was just for alfa threads.

(sigh) The alfa thread ...

"Anything goes" in the LAVA Lounge

That dancing baby gives me the creeps as well. But not as much as the Burger King.

I rarely remember my dreams. And when I do it's never about anything "normal".

... I'd have a hard time justifying that to my mother when she asks me if I've been spending her tax dollars wisely.

I'm glad someone is looking out for out tax dollars.

Cha ching!

If you don't feel these drivers are at your personal level of satisfaction don't share them with Company A ... or the entire world for that matter on a web page.

Hold on to them and improve them if you can. Some day you might be satisfied enough with them to make them public. Then you could send them over to NI's driver network.

Company A can get them from NI to post on their web page. Let Company A and NI deal with the legal stuff.

My $0.02