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for(imstuck) gets bold!

joaopam — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:06:08 GMT

Our dear Greg Freeman, aka for(imstuck) just got bold. He's our newest Trusted Enthusiast.

Thank you so much for all the good tips and time you've spent helping people around.

😄

Cheers!

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

crossrulz — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:20:30 GMT

I knew he was getting close. Looks like he had a good tear over the weekend.

Congratulations Greg. You always seem to come up with the most interesting problems. But we all learn something from them. Good to have you on the team.

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

Intaris — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:31:37 GMT

@joaopam wrote:

Our dear Greg Freeman, aka for(imstuck) just got bold. He's our newest Trusted Enthusiast.

Any relation to Gordon? Handy with a crowbar he is!

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

JÞB — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:19:33 GMT

Whenever I see that crazy man running in circles I think to myself. "What did Greg code himself into THIS time?"

Every once in a while its interesting to look back a few years. I'll put it in a spoiler to preserve Greg's dignity. (A bit)

Seen Here

Congratulations and thank your for sharing your experiences with the community!

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

GregFreeman — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:04:40 GMT

Thanks, Guys. What's that I hear? *Speech, speech, speech!* Ok, maybe I'll write something up at lunch time. Anyways, Jeff, my personal favorite was a couple threads later by me. I didn't realize you could handle multiple events in a single event structure. So instead, I just dropped multiple event structures in the same while loop. Learning this was a major breakthrough!

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

GregFreeman — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:10:21 GMT

Whadda ya know? My FPGA VI is compiling so I have a little (25 minutes?) of free time. Thanks for your congratulations guys. Now that I have a job I enjoy (well, I've had it for almost 3 years), my post frequency has dropped considerably, but I'm trying to pick it back up! It's really all you guys I should thank because without these forums I wouldn't have gotten to the point I'm at today.

I do enjoy giving back, but I feel we can all agree the reason many of us are on these forums is for our own personal benefit. For every 1 question I answer, I say I learn about 10 things. Some questions I answer are purely because my engineering curiousity takes over: I want to see if I can solve that problem! The person that posted just gets the benefit of after I solve it they get the answer ;). I encourage all developers, experienced or not, to just browse the forums every day. It isn't necessary to be involved in the community, but I can think of many times I immediately knew the solution to some problem I had because I had read in the past that someone else had the same problem (there were a lot of different tenses used in that sentence, I'm an engineer not an english major). The majority of the time my coworkers come into my office to ask me a question my answer is "hold on, I'll send you a thread on that, let me find it."

Anyways, thanks again guys, see you in this thread again at 5,000.

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

Intaris — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:12:34 GMT

Just, whatever you do, don't lose your curiosity.

While it might kill other lesser organisms, programmers and engineers can only possible benefit. I know of a two-eyed Physicists which can back me up.

Shane

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

SnowMule — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:30:31 GMT

Congrats!

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altenbach — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:45:35 GMT

Congratulations Greg!

It was nice meeting you in Austin last year. Looking at your post evolution here, it is safe to say that you got unstuck long ago and are returning the favor to newcomers! 😄

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

joaopam — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:09:36 GMT

Very nice speech, Greg!

By the way, I was comparing my VIs Before forum and after forum. Even if I'm not a regular post-guy, I'm always browsing through the threads and learning LOTS of new things.

I started visiting here frequently earlier this month, and I already can see the difference in my LabVIEW knowledgement (although I don't get even close to guys like altenbach, crossrulz, Jeff, RavensFan, Lynn, GerdW and the specialists crowd in this forum).

It's good to be, somehow, your apprentice. By the end, everybody is learning something - and that is the real benefit.

Congrats Greg. Go for 5k.

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

johnsold — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:06:05 GMT

Conratulations, Greg!

Your posts are always informative and often thought provoking. Keep up the good work.

Lynn

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

JÞB — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:56:28 GMT

@joaopam wrote:

Our dear Greg Freeman, aka for(imstuck) just got bold. He's our newest Trusted Enthusiast.

Well, for almost a whole day he WAS our newest Trusted Enthusiast. Poor Jordan, As soon as she floated the thread it was obsolete.

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

GregFreeman — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:00:37 GMT

He's stealin' my thunder.

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

BPerlman — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:04:55 GMT

Congratulations!

I've read enough of your posts to really wonder at your user name (you don't look so stuck!) 🙂

Thanks for helping all of us.

Batya

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JB — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:16:11 GMT

Congratulations Greg!

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dan_u — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:48:54 GMT

Congratulations Greg!

I won't make it to NIWeek this year so we won't have the opportunity to meet again there.

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

tst — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:56:13 GMT

Technically, it should probably be while(imstuck)... 😉

Or do you have a well defined iteration count on that? Maybe something like for(postcount=0,postcount<5000,postcount++){imstuck}? That's a bit of a mouthful...

The easiest would probably be to let your guy run inside a LabVIEW loop.

Congratulations.

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

jcarmody — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:20:54 GMT

@for(imstuck) wrote:

... I encourage all developers, experienced or not, to just browse the forums every day. It isn't necessary to be involved in the community, but I can think of many times I immediately knew the solution to some problem I had because I had read in the past that someone else had the same problem ...

That's the truth. Thanks for your work.

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

RedAG — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:16:36 GMT

Congratulations Greg! It is clear to me that a lot, I mean a LOT can be learned from this site, not particularly LabVIEW as such, but also the little bits of information associated with problems, soutions of even hardware deices etc which are very very useful.

I consume a huge amount of my 'Work Time' here, digging through old posts, so much so that the IT guys at work once thought I was working for NI!!!

Re: for(imstuck) gets bold!

Wayne.C — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:30:45 GMT

Congratulations Greg! All that constant movement in circles seems to keep things stirred up. Just the way we like it. Please continue the great posts.