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QUOTE (LV_FPGA_SE @ Aug 12 2008, 12:15 PM)

I just completed the CLAD at NIWeek and will be working on the CLD over the next few months. Even though I have 10+ years of LV experience (and am a supposed expert), it forces you to think more carefully about your own ingrained programming practices and habits, and improve them at least in some ways (more comments in my case and more consistent good design even for simple examples that are distributed).

I have similar thoughts. I did not do as well as expected on the CLAD, although I passed. I perhaps overthought some of the questions. I have spent most of the last 6 months re-doing stacked-nested-and-stacked sequence code, and it has been very rewarding. And educational. And painful :ninja: I hope that the CLD will actually be easier in some ways than the CLAD because it is all about coding and coding well, not about interpreting the question.

QUOTE (crelf @ Aug 12 2008, 07:48 PM)

I love cats...

...with gravy.

and a biscuit :thumbup:

QUOTE (Justin Goeres @ Aug 12 2008, 07:30 PM)

Pretty compelling evidence! :ninja:

It reminds me that I didn't get to tell my story at NIWeek this year about the time I spent 6 hours on a Greyhound bus with a crack whore and a conspiracy theorist. :beer:

Oh my GOD! I hope she forgets what day the election is

QUOTE (crelf @ Aug 11 2008, 09:05 PM)

That's just plain wrong!

Later that night...

Ah crap! Now I've got "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree" in my head!

:headbang: Dangit Chris, I listened to a bit of each song on that mix last night with no ill effects. Now you put that dang song in my head when I'm at work!

QUOTE (Yair @ Aug 11 2008, 02:04 PM)

By the way, this still seems to suck.

Examples:

• "kermit mel" still does not find the thread we discussed earlier.
  
• "search sucks" still does not find this thread.
  
• "labview tool suggestion" (what I was actually looking for) does not find http://forums.lavag.org/A-LabVIEW-tool-suggestion-t8976.html' target="_blank">this thread.
  

All of them seem to work fine through labviewsearch.com. Maybe the internal search engine just isn't indexing the content?

I haven't tried labviewsearch.com, but the search results is the reason that I do all of my searching for specific information on NI forums. Reading new posts here is great, but it seems pretty difficult to search for past postings in any meaningful way.

QUOTE (mballa @ Aug 3 2008, 01:07 AM)

Also since most of us have only just seen 8.6 I think you shoud do the competition in 8.5 so the NI guys don't have an advantage.

I would certainly hope so!

QUOTE (neB @ Jun 16 2008, 10:05 AM)

Have you heard MRSI, pronounced Mercy ? It is anything but!

Ben

That one really threw me! I was thinking MRSA and when I hit the link and saw artillery I was thinking WTFO?

Mercy it ain't!

QUOTE (Eugen Graf @ Jul 24 2008, 06:48 PM)

please look this site, it's very nice to understand Russia (if you want)

Eugen

Preved Eugen!

Thanks for the link. Is this site actually done by someone who is Russian? I love the wry, self-depricating humor. If this represents how a significant percentage of the Russian people think about their country it is a useful insight. They are a lot like me! I would love to go there some day.

QUOTE (Justin Goeres @ Jul 24 2008, 03:32 PM)

Which is roughly half the temperature outside, where a bikini is recommended.

NOT a mental image I was prepared for

I won't be able to make it this year, knock the froth off of one for me! :beer:

Speaking of commerical announcements, why isn't your corporate logo a link? It was paid for right? :thumbup:

QUOTE (Aristos Queue @ Jul 17 2008, 10:59 AM)

90% of software cannot be patented because it is simply an implementation of algorithms that already exist -- even if it is a new way of combining those algorithms, most of the combinations are "obvious derivations".

Kind of like trying to patent a book. And 90% is a large understatement.

QUOTE (Michael_Aivaliotis @ Jul 14 2008, 08:03 PM)

What emotions do you feel when you watch it?

Nauseous. Wimpy. Smarter than the fool with the camera.

QUOTE (Yair @ Jul 12 2008, 03:52 PM)

By the way, am I the only one who finds bread with chocolate chips to be a weird concept? Isn't that what you have cakes for?

My favorite breakfast food when I was in Paris was "pain au chocolat" (bread with chocolate)!

QUOTE (Omar Mussa @ Jul 12 2008, 01:06 PM)

1) Delivering an exe is not always possible (you could be delivering an instrument driver for example).

2) Password protection works as long as you trust that nobody has hacked the LabVIEW password protection scheme. Jim Kring wrote an excellent article http://thinkinging.com/2007/08/19/password-protecting-vis-is-security-through-obscurity/' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">here.

Good points Omar. Having done all of my work for my employer has kept me from having to think in the terms that an independant contractor has to.

QUOTE (Val Brown @ Jul 11 2008, 09:24 PM)

This can be esp the case given a one person shop, with a proprietary algorithm that needs to be obscured precisely so that others can reverse engineer it.

Why would delivering an exe or password protecting the BD not accomplish this need?

QUOTE (kbersch @ Oct 30 2007, 06:19 PM)

I should have included the fact that these VIs are for LabVIEW 8.2.Kelly

Kelly,

I'd be interested in checking out your VIs, but I only go up to LV8.0. Any chance that you could save to 8 and post them?

Thanks.

You are a better man than I :worship:

I also work with a lot of people from Asia, but I absolutely refused to let that stuff any closer to me than barely within whiffing distance!

QUOTE (Phillip Brooks @ Jul 11 2008, 11:37 AM)

I would compare some of the code I've seen more to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">durian

How could anyone possibly voluntarily eat something with an odor that one might consider comparing to pig excrement OR turpentine?!?!

I am in the process of rebuilding an application that was developed using NONE of the considerations of the style guidelines. It had a stacked sequence with 173 frames, many of which had similar disasters inside of them, For Loops with hidden conditional terminals, etc . Yesterday I finished turning one of the frames into a sequenceless sub-vi. when I finished, I felt like I had just taken a shower. It just made me feel clean! :thumbup: Next will be correcting the architecture, which also stinks.

Sorry to go off topic (didn't feel that this deserved a seperate thread), but last week I realized that there is something missing from the basic I/O primatives. Why is there no GPIB query? It seems that this function should be available in a primative rather than having to be built up from a seperate read and write. I only have 6.0, 7.1, and 8.0 so maybe it has been added in a later version.

QUOTE (LV_FPGA_SE @ Jul 9 2008, 07:20 PM)

Great fun too watch. Thanks for sharing. Watch out puppy at home.

Hmmmmmmmm............I'm thinking cat

Well I suck at it, but my kids love it! Kind of like Asteroids on acid.

Interesting thread guys. I am trying to aim myself towards a future move into contract systems engineering, and it is very interesting to read about the process that this involves. It is very much different from an internal developement process. Mistakes in calculating the developement time and cost are not nearly as costly (personally) on an internal developement process (especially in a large corporation).

That's the first VI that I have seen people praise someone for their use of a stacked sequence structure :thumbup:

Nicely done.

QUOTE (Poom-Thailand @ Jul 3 2008, 05:17 AM)

If I want to control the robot from the camera

What robot? What camera?

QUOTE (LV_FPGA_SE @ Jul 1 2008, 11:27 PM)

Darn you. You wasted my evening away...

Don't worry, it won't be the last one!