Chicagoland Useful LabVIEW links

[MarkBalla-Tecnova]

If you have come accross any great LabVIEW links please post them to this discussion.

My document of useful LabVIEW links can be found at

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-19639

Mark

[MarkBalla-Tecnova]

Over at the Northeast Indiana NI and LabVIEW User Group (NINILUG) comunity page they also have a Links document found at

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-9356

[MarkBalla-Tecnova]

There is a great disscussion on LAVA about Functional Globals

http://lavag.org/topic/15322-robustness-of-functional-global-pattern-at-large-scales/page__fromsearc...

[MarkBalla-Tecnova]

If you ventured into the world of LVOOP you may have heard the new buzz about "The Actor Framework"

which is a framework base solely on OOP.

Here is a video demonstrating it.

http://zone.ni.com/wv/app/doc/p/id/wv-3101

Here is the comunity site dedicated to it.

https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/actor-framework-2011?view=documents

[MarkBalla-Tecnova]

Here are some more links a coworker sent me.

What's New in LabVIEW 2011 (13 new features), Stephanie Orci Applications Engineer

https://ni.adobeconnect.com/_a56821929/p9fz0qaoqxc/

Silver Pallet(beautiful Boolean buttons), Aligning wires, Undo Act, Enum Type Def connected flag, Make type def. from constant, automatic error status extraction from error clusters, default 4-2-2-4 connectors that automatically assigns error in/out, 20 additional math functions such as contour lines, asynchronous calling vi, plot visibility check boxes, application builder programmatically build pallet, better error reporting and AutoSaving,  .net CLR 4.0, faster launch times, faster compile for Real Time FPGA, m-files support for structures, Find Add-ons, OpenG Librairies

LAbVIEW realtime, New IP cores, Xilinx iSim and test benches from LabVIEW, sbRIO-96xx and NI CRIO-908x

1. www.ni.com/labview/whatsnew

LabVIEW Student Assessments

http://www.ni.com/academic/students/learnlabview/assess.htm

Online Test

http://ni2.intellisurvey.com/run/celvbasicsquiz

VI High - Very Funny - Sixclear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg66E1Mn3XY

http://blog.sixclear.com/post/2702910705/clad-exam-prep-1

CLAD Study Guide

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-14498

[MarkBalla-Tecnova]

Here is a link to NI's

LabVIEW Virtual User Group Meeting Presentations

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/13687

[MarkBalla-Tecnova]

This is great video presentation by Elija Kerry

Designing Scalable LabVIEW Applications With Object-Oriented Programming

If you are looking for way to use LVOOP in a structured way this video is a great resource.

http://zone.ni.com/wv/app/doc/p/id/wv-3364/nextonly/y

[mballa]

Here is a link to the LabVIEW Skills Guide. If you are looking to improve you LV skills this is a great place to start. As of LV2012 Online classes are free with an active software service contract.

NI LabVIEW Skills Guide

Identify the skills you need and find learning resources to help you successfully develop a LabVIEW application with your hardware

http://www.ni.com/labview/skills-guide/en/

[MarkBalla-Tecnova]

Since 2009 NI has been producing

LabVIEW Tech Webcasts

http://www.ni.com/white-paper/13687/en

I find them very useful for keeping up on the latest and greatest in LabVIEW

[MarkBalla-Tecnova]

If you are looking for a book specifically written to help you with the CLD examine

There is a great LabVIEW Book called Effective LabVIEW Programming written by Thomas Bress.

It is one of the few LV books with color images of the example block diagrams.

http://www.ntspress.com/publications/effective-labview-programming/

VI Shots did a feature podcast on this book which you can find at

http://vishots.com/effective-labview-programming-new-book-by-thomas-bress-helps-you-pass-your-cld/