Future UGM Meeting Topics: Please vote

[jboone]

Vote for the topics you want to see at the next LabVIEW User Group Meeting (tentatively scheduled for July, 2010).

•      JKI Right-click Framework
•      Overview of the LabVIEW StateChart Module
•      XControls
•      Using .NET with LabVIEW
•      Highlights of the CompactRIO Developer's Guide
•      Understanding the LabVIEW Shared Variable
•      LabVIEW Tips & Tricks
•      Top 10 LabVIEW application "hardening" techniques (dependent upon your discussion thread responses)
•      Exploring a specific LabVIEW application design pattern

Post your vote to our discussion board and we will choose the most popular topic to present on at our next slated meeting.

[Heyla]

top three for me but interested in learning about all of 'em...

Top 10 LabVIEW application "hardening" techniques (dependent upon your discussion thread responses)

Overview of the LabVIEW StateChart Module

Exploring a specific LabVIEW application design pattern

[Elijah_K]

A popular UGM topic in other areas has been Team-Based Development and Source Code Control with LabVIEW.  A lot of users have taken to the use of Subversion, and they seem eager to hear best-practices on how to use it with LabVIEW.

Just an idea!

[Mark_Ramsdale]

My top picks are:

Top 10 LabVIEW application "hardening" techniques

XControls

License Issues  ( open source, RT, etc....)

OK, I added one that is not on the list.

Mark

[travisferguson]

Hi All,

We have a special opportunity to have Darren Nattinger from LabVIEW R&D present at the next LV UGM.  (For those of you who were able to attend the LabVIEW Developer Days, he presented on speeding up LabVIEW Development.  This was very informative, and very well received).

Well, he has another presentation about Tips and Tricks to Improve LabVIEW Performance, which he is offering to present at the July LabVIEW User Group Meeting.  Let's take him up on his offer.  Unless there are specific objections, that's what we'll do.

In the meantime, please go ahead and continue voting in this discussion thread for what you might like to see for upcoming LabVIEW User Group Meeting topics.  In addition, take a moment to give your thoughts/ideas on how you "harden" your LabVIEW applications.  We need more responses in this area in order to compile something into a Top 10 list.

Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions/concerns.

Travis

[dsloan]

My three would be:

1. Top 10 LabVIEW application "hardening" techniques

2. Xcontrols

3. Exploring a specific LabVIEW application design pattern

[alsoACS]

I'd say "hardening."

I'm up for presenting on the Actor Framework that was covered in Stephen Mercer's NI Week Session.  I helped get it into its final form, so I'm pretty comfortable with how it's supposed to work.

[FabiolaDelaCueva]

I would love to see Allen present on the Actor Framework that was covered by Stephen Mercer's NI Week Session.

Other topics I am interested on:

•      Using .NET with LabVIEW --> specially for GUIs
•      Understanding the LabVIEW Shared Variable
•      Top 10 LabVIEW application "hardening" techniques (dependent upon your discussion thread responses)

A topic that is not in the list:

• Getting started with LVOOP. Maybe presenting how something can be done in regular LabVIEW and how it can be approach using LVOOP and the advantages, disadvantages. This is something I could present if people are interested on this topic.

[B_Spears]

I'd be very interesting in the hardening discussions and the Actor

Framework.

Sound like winners!

Best regards,

Brian Spears

brian.spears@sixclear.com

512-983-3349

[travisferguson]

Hello Austin User Community,

I wanted to give you a quick status update regarding the next scheduled User Group Meeting.  We had originally targeted to have this meeting next Wednesday (November 3^rd).  Based on logistics, I’m going to push this meeting back to Tuesday, November 16^th.  It will be the normal time – 11:00 – 1:00, at our MOPAC facility (building C).

As for the topic, based on the responses, the most popular topic was “Application Hardening” ideas.  However, the goal of this topic was for the community to submit their best practices, and then we could review them in the meeting.  Based on the response, it sounds like there is interest, but I did not receive any actual input on best practices.  So, I’m brainstorming on how to make this more of an interactive discussion, at a future User Group Meeting.

While in discussions about the above topic with one of the LabVIEW Product Managers, he emphasized that the first step in “hardening” your application is really to implement good software engineering practices throughout the development.  I thought this would be a good topic to address.   I know we have various levels of users in our community.  I believe this will be a good way to introduce these concepts to our newer developers, as well as reinforce practices by our more experienced developers.  So, I’ve invited him to speak at the next User Group Meeting.

Please register for the upcoming event, so we have an accurate head count for lunch.

And, I’m still interested in hearing your feedback regarding potential future topics.

• The Actor Framework – Allen Smith
  
• Overview of LabVIEW Design Patterns – Travis Ferguson
  

I’ve also done some investigation related to tools and reference designs for our CompactRIO platform.  I realize that not everyone uses CompactRIO.  One of the challenges is that can require you to implement LabVIEW (Host), LabVIEW Real-Time, and possibly LabVIEW FPGA code.  Well, the tools above can help abstract away some of the complexity of this platform, specifically for data logging applications.  In addition, it implements some good development practices.  And, I think it is an interesting use case for study.

So, please let me know what you think about the above.  We can also discuss it during the wrap-up stage of our next User Group Meeting.

Travis Ferguson