I couldn't live without...

[TiTou]

Hi all,

Some/most of you have probably read Jim Kring's blog "Thinking in G" on which he posted a series of "I couldn't live without..." posts.

For those who missed it, it's not too late to go and read it, to sum up, each post was discribing one of OpenG VIs and a use case for it.

Darren's weekly nugget was also great but I don't think it was promoting OpenG very much, was it?

For someone new to LabVIEW, posting questions here I think VIPM, OpenG and the like is not visible enough.

How often, a question on NI Forums, could be answered to with just a "pointer" to a VI from OpenG or MGI or any other free librairie?

Here's the most recent example of that.

I though it could be good idea to start something similar as Jim's "I couldn't live without" series on the forums, maybe in the same format as Darren's nugget or (communitty nugget).

Any thoughts? Comments? Ideas?

[Ben]

I always welcome Nuggets of any type. Of course there are some that thrill me and others that do not.

If you "Lift the hood" and show the implementation of the various OpenG stuff that would benefit many.

If you just want to point at a function and tell us to use it, you will loose the part of the community that can not use* the OpenG stuff.

Ben

*Contracts specifically rule out public shareware or security restrictions are such that I am happy I have access to that palettes let alone other stuff. Imagine a Stuxnet clone sneaking in through open source code. The terms "Shareware" and "Nuke-u-lar" set off alarms.

[TiTou]

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Ben wrote:

If you "Lift the hood" and show the implementation of the various OpenG stuff that would benefit many.

If you just want to point at a function and tell us to use it, you will loose the part of the community that can not use* the OpenG stuff.

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Good point. My first idea was to give OpenG and more generally anything you can get with VIPM more visibility so that people who start with LabVIEW are more exposed to it but I agree that, going into the implementation would also make it interesting for a much wider base.

[Ben]

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@TiTou wrote:

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Ben wrote:

If you "Lift the hood" and show the implementation of the various OpenG stuff that would benefit many.

If you just want to point at a function and tell us to use it, you will loose the part of the community that can not use* the OpenG stuff.

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Good point. My first idea was to give OpenG and more generally anything you can get with VIPM more visibility so that people who start with LabVIEW are more exposed to it but I agree that, going into the implementation would also make it interesting for a much wider base.

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Yes and not only ther readers would benefit but OpenG may also when from the extra set of eyes looking at the code.... but then maybe not... quoting myself;

"The problem with writing perfect code is chances are nobody will ever see it."

Ben

[TiTou]

Who said OpenG was perfect?