Meeting 2012-4-26: CLA Summit Review

[FabiolaDelaCueva]

Meeting Logistics

• Location: Mopac B Breifing Center @ NI headquarters 11500 North MoPac Expressway, Austin TX)
  
• Date: Thursday, April 26, 2012
• Time: 6:00 PM
• Duration: ~ 2 hours
• Format: 45 mins presentations plus group discussion
  
  

Food: JKI will sponsor pizza. We'll need a head count, so please as soon as the invitation goes out, register. We will need National Instruments members to register as well, for that, you will get an internal invitation. If you are not sure if you are in that internal list and want to be, please let me know (fabiola@delacor.com)

Meeting Description

"MVC and other lessons learned from the 2012 US CLA Summit"

• Presenter: Allen Smith
• Est. Duration: 45 minutes
• Description: This year's summit focused on decoupling the user interface from the main body of code.  Several approaches were discussed; most quickly converged on Model-View-Controller designs.  Allen will provide a short overview of discussion that highlights the key concepts.

"European CLA Summit"

• Presenter: Fabiola De la Cueva
  
• Est. Duration: 45 minutes
• Topic: CLA European Summit takeaways
• Description: Talk about some of the things learned during the European CLA Summit. Discuss LVOOP exercise and the possibility of doing something similar at one of our future meetings.

"Challenges"

• Presenter: ALL
  
• Est. Duration: 15 mintues
• Topic: LabVIEW challenges we are currently facing
• Description: Have time to discuss LabVIEW Challenges we are currently facing and get to bounce ideas off each other. Come prepared with things you would like to discuss with the group.

[FabiolaDelaCueva]

Thank you for those of you who came, I hope you enjoyed the meeting.

Thanks to JKI for sponsoring food and to sixclear for sponsoring the remote connection.

Thanks to Allen Smith for his recap of the US CLA Summit.

Here is where you can find the slides and information about the European CLA Summit I talked about:

European CLA Summit 2012

in particular, I talked about Steve Watts' LabVIEW Smells presentation, Chris Roebuck took very good notes.

I also talked about the OO Introduction and case study that Karin Hellqvist and Marcus Johson from Symbio did and I did a very quick demo on their UML Modeller tool that comes with their GOOP Development Suite.

The books/resources I mentioned that were recommended during Steve's presentation:

• Code Complete
• UML Components: A Simple Process for Specifying Component-Based Software
• The Duct Tape Programmer
• Object-Oriented Thought Process

Thanks and see you again - Thursday, July 19

Fab

[David_L]

😞 European CLA Summit group is private.  I wanted to know why LabVIEW Smells...