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 3rd). Based on logistics, I’m going to push this meeting back to Tuesday, November 16th. 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
