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Cross posted on the CLA Community, but added here for visibility. Schedule your flights accordingly! It's another year and another pre-Summit get-together to share our excitement. This will be our 4th year for this event and we grow each time. Come see everybody! -------------------------------------- Are you planning on attending the CLA Summit this year in Austin? Are you arriving Sunday? Would you like to meet and mingle with other LabVIEW architects? Then I have your evening plans ready! The last <n-1> years we had an informal get together on Sunday night before the CLA Summit, and I am excited that we get to do it again. Last year most of the Summit attendees came, so yes, <insert name here> will be there, come join us! If you see a CLA wandering around looking for something to do, bring them. Sunday, March 1nd, 6:30-10:30 (most stay later, closing is 2am) Food will be provided by G Systems, drinks are on your own (but super cheap). Location will be the same place as the previous years, The Hideout Pub. They have a big patio in case of nice weather, dress comfortably and bring a jacket in case. When its too cold we have just stayed inside. It is right down the road from NI and close to our hotels. Can't wait to see you guys once again! Jeremy Marquis CLA, CPI www.gsystems.com

You are correct sir, I shouldn't have slapped that code together so fast. The fun and danger of rapid prototyping in LabVIEW. All results (both methods and both platforms) now report ~4.3ms. I sure wish I could have that <2ms back...

I was playing with large matrices and was testing execution speed on my laptop (the code is destined to run on RT). The code below tests using the Matrix Multiply function vs just straight array math. Unsurprisingly the Matrix Multiply function executed faster. Then when I ran it on RT both methods took the same amount of time? And Matrix Multiply (A x B.vi) takes LONGER on RT than PC? Is there some windows-optimized code under the hood that is not available on RT? I was hoping it would be faster since my laptop is several years old and this is NI's super duper 8135 PXI controller. I did deploy this as a startup app to ensure running from the IDE did not affect timing when running on the RT.

Thank you, all of you at NI Week. My wife had more fun than anyone else. Anyone. She got to talk to people from all over the world about culture, science, medicine, mechanics/machines, electronics, the internet/cloud, deployment methods, business models, product marketing, mathematics, even history. She even crashed a real estate appraisal conference being held at the hotel. She spoke to most everyone running demos in the expo hall. Consistently the female AE's would look around to see if they were being watched, then get a gleam in their eyes and say to her "I get you, me too, come push these buttons with me!" During MY booth duty Tuesday morning her many years of sales experience kicked in, unplanned. She was pumped and drawing all kinds of people into the booth. I couldn't keep up. My coworkers were amused. Shortest-feeling booth duty ever. She somehow audited a session upstairs, accompanying an NI sales rep from abroad (details obscured to protect!). He got to practice explaining the product and its target market to her personally (in English), and she got to see how NI presented new products to the public. In the evenings she went with me to special dinners, private events, happy-hour-meetings, and dinner with customers. At a standing, raucous scotch-with-the-boys gathering she matched the banter so well it was demanded she be there next year. She helped me at the check-in table at the LAVA BBQ and met ~200 LabVIEW developers. Late nights she kept people together, seemed to grow the group with everyone we met, and kept everything clean. At the conference party her desire to get people talking and meeting each other made it like speed-networking for all of us. By that time she had so many badge ribbons donated to her that she got a lot of attention, and she had a lot of fun. And she still had time to dance. Sent from Norm Kirchner, he titled it "Belle of the Ball." Bringing cultures together at the conference party: I am omitting the "Air guitar with LabVIEW Champions at the Spazmatics show" photo, sorry. =) She is still talking about last week. I believe I will take her again next year. She reminded me what all the excitement is about, and renewed my wonder at what all of you do. It was my most fun year, too. Jeremy

Ran into this and was hoping to find a solution besides the ugly and slow "IMAQ ArrayToImage" and "IMAQ ImageToArray" functions. This does work with B/W images though. Resurrected for others also searching.

G Systems is giving away a Raspberry Pi complete starter kit with everything you need to create a streaming media player. Happy tinkering.

Coming up fast, thankfully!

Ha ha ha, great.

Are you planning on attending the CLA Summit this year in Austin? Are you arriving Sunday? Would you like to meet and mingle with other LabVIEW architects? Then I have your evening plans ready! The last two years we had an informal get together on Sunday night before the CLA Summit, and I am excited that we get to do it again. Last year about 80 people came, so yes, <insert name here> will be there, come join us! If you see a CLA wandering around looking for something to do, bring them. Sunday, March 2nd, 6:30-10:30 (most stay later, closing is 2am) G Systems will provide the food, drinks are on your own. Location will be the same place as the last two years, The Hideout Pub They have a big patio for nice weather, dress comfortably and bring a jacket in case. When its too cold we have just stayed inside. It is right down the road from NI and close to our hotels. Can't wait to see you guys again, again! Jeremy Marquis CLA, CPI www.gsystems.com [This is crossposted on NI's CLA Community]

This is the very NTP service I used before for this, I was just hoping to avoid any install on the PC, since it is owned by another group.

I have an RT PXI controller, and I am wondering the best way to get a networked PC's system time so I can periodically sync to it (in a controlled way, such as when RT system is idle). Obstacles: The PC is not running any LabVIEW code, so no PC publishing time to network shared variable stuff The code on the PC is legacy C# code that I cannot modify to include timestamp messaging between systems The PC and attached RT PXI are network isolated, so no using a domain controller time service My only solution to get the time from this generic windows PC (assume WinXP or newer) is to install an NTP time service on it that I can query via UDP from the RT application. I have done this before, but it just feels unsatisfactory. Anyone else solve this problem before?

The venue change will be welcome, its great fun but pretty crowded for Fado. This is one of my must-go NI Week events.

Excited to see you guys. I also have door prizes for this year. Any excuse to come!

Thanks for pointing me to that group. I am hoping not to have to learn CLI scripting (and especially not company-wide), so I am really looking for a client with a great UI.

I am playing with GitHub as a possible replacement for our current SCC tool. Do you guys use Git or GitHub? What client app do you use? Any recommendations? I am specifically leaving the topic scope open, so feel free to praise/rant/headscratch.

Good catch! Moderator, can you update to Sunday March 3rd?

Hello again, everyone! Who of us doesn't love getting some face time with other LAVA members? Last year we had an informal get together on Sunday night before the CLA Summit, and I am excited that we get to do it again. This year I posted first on the CLA Community page HERE, you can find details there. It is the same place this year. Again, very informal, dress comfortably. But decently, because Balla could show up and video the revelry for the poor folks back home. Jeremy Marquis CLA,CPI www.gsystems.com Just in case you cant access the CLA Community post, here it is in its entirety: ========================================================== Are you planning on attending the CLA Summit this year in Austin? Are you arriving Sunday? Would you like to meet and mingle with other LabVIEW architects? Then I have your evening plans ready! Sunday, March 4th, 6:30-10pm (or later if you want to stay, closing is 2am) G Systems will provide the food, drinks are on your own. This is an informal event which was great fun last year. Location will be The Hideout Pub They have a big patio for the nice weather, dress comfortably. They are located very close to NI, on the Southbound Mopac Frontage Road between Parmer Ln. and Duval Rd. at the intersection of Waters Park Rd./Park Bend Dr., across Mopac from St. David's North Austin Medical Center. Can't wait to see you guys again! Jeremy Marquis CLA, CPI www.gsystems.com

Looks like we have a critical mass with at least 20 people. Keep em coming!

Location and schedule have been determined! (Please let me know if there is a way to edit the original post in this thread.) Sunday, March 4th, 7-10pm (or later if you want to stay, closing is 2am) The Hideout Pub Big patio for the nice weather, dress comfortably. On the Southbound Mopac Frontage Road between Parmer Ln. and Duval Rd. at the intersection of Waters Park Rd./Park Bend Dr., across Mopac from St. David's North Austin Medical Center.

How many of you are planning on attending the CLA Summit this year in Austin? Are you arriving Sunday? Would you like to meet and mingle with other LAVA members? And eat free food? I have loved the NI Week LAVA BBQ's (last year I won a flight back to Dallas in Norm's plane), and wanted to arrange a get together for this event. G Systems will provide the food. Location is TBD, but will be nearby the event. Tentative time is 7pm-10pm. Let me know if you are interested and I will make sure we have enough food. Drinks are on your own. Can't wait to see you guys! Edit: Location and schedule have been determined! (Please let me know if there is a way to edit the original post in this thread.) Sunday, March 4th, 7-10pm (or later if you want to stay, closing is 2am) The Hideout Pub Big patio for the nice weather, dress comfortably. On the Southbound Mopac Frontage Road between Parmer Ln. and Duval Rd. at the intersection of Waters Park Rd./Park Bend Dr., across Mopac from St. David's North Austin Medical Center. Jeremy Marquis CLA, CPI www.gsystems.com

Great post, thanks for sharing that. That is just the type of response I was looking for. Build problems are especially alarming since they are typically discovered near the end of the project.

I have searched and found only how-to articles in the LV Help. Can you point me to the article you are thinking of? Thanks That's good to know, I will keep that in mind, thanks!

I've used LabVIEW for many years (starting 3.1), and have been doing RT programming for about the past 6 years. I am considering taking the plunge to OOP, but I had some questions of a general nature. 1) are there special performance considerations designing OOP code for an RT platform? even a small platform like old cFP's? 2) how does memory allocation and management work with LVOOP in RT? 3) hardest to answer, are there specific limitations or weaknesses using OOP in general that I should know about? It seems that if I have a design using dynamically launched VI templates and named single-element queues, it is begging for OOP. However, not knowing the limitations I don't want to start coding myself into a corner. I know, I am late to the party. I resisted the auto-tool too, at first. My tab key had the letters rubbed off. Thanks, Jeremy