New blog - EXPRESSIONFLOW

[Tomi_Maila]

Hi,

I'm very excited to announce my new blog EXPRESSIONFLOW on LabVIEW and visual programming. In the blog I will cover various aspects of LabVIEW and visual programming. I will concentrate on concepts and ideas that have the potential to make visual programming more powerful and allow developers to reuse their code more easily.

http://www.expressionflow.com

In my first article Introduction to Objects and Classes I will give an introduction to the concepts behind object oriented programming. This will be my first article in a series of articles introducing to object-oriented programming in LabVIEW. Later on I'll move to more advanced concepts. Stay tuned. Don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed!

Tomi

[tst]

Very good!

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@Tomi M wrote:
Don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed!

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Done.

BTW, how about making the image in your signature smaller? It's very distracting and seems to me that you can cut about half the height without losing anything.
Also, it would be clearer to people if you simply added the text "Click here" to the image instead of having it as a seperate text.

Personally, I think I would make the text much shorter (e.g. drop the author part) and simply make it a hyperlink saying something like "The EXPRESSIONFLOW Blog" or "My dataflow blog" something similar, but that's already a matter of personal taste. It's just that people won't read stuff with too much text and those following the link will see the details anyway.

[Tomi_Maila]

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@tst wrote:

BTW, how about making the image in your signature smaller?

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Better now?

[tst]

Much better, although I must say I personally don't like the command!

Also, when you finally do find other good graphical languages you will have (?) to get rid of the "LabVIEW" part.

Congratulations, BTW. The more content generated in this area, the better, and especially if it's by someone knowledgable who pushes the boundaries and keeps challenging.

[tst]

On further thought, it might be better if it just read "EXPRESSIONFLOW      Click to read now...". It's more mysterious and I think that it might even get more people to click it.

[OneForLove]

Congratulations!

[Tomi_Maila]

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@tst wrote:

Also, when you finally do find other good graphical languages you will have (?) to get rid of the "LabVIEW" part.

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Haven't I rather give LabVIEW a very special position by raising it as the only example of visual programming languages Honestly the reason for the term visual programming in the title is professional. I work in academic world where product names are unimportant and only concepts per se have some meaning. Of course this also gives me some flexibility to introduce concepts and ideas from other visual programming languages as well. Perhaps these concepts and ideas will find their ways to LabVIEW in the future, which will be a benefit of all LabVIEW users 🙂

Tomi

[M.P.]

That's a nice start for a blog Tomi! Would your host service allow for downloadable example programs? An introduction of more advanced concepts might benefit from shared demos.

[Tomi_Maila]

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@M.P. wrote:
That's a nice start for a blog Tomi! Would your host service allow for downloadable example programs? An introduction of more advanced concepts might benefit from shared demos.

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I haven't tested with file attachments yet but I think there should be no problems.

A general question to everybody: On what subjects you would like to read articles on my blog? I appreciate any suggestions.

Tomi

[M.P.]

I think LV-OOP is a good start. Pretty novel and quite a paradigm shift.