Upcoming Events

[Dave_Thomson]

   ALARM is meeting on May 20th at 6:30 PM in the UMC Building, Room 425 at the University of Colorado in Boulder.  (Note the change of location.)  Buddy Haun will be presenting on LabVIEW performance as well as showing a curious VI he wrote that includes data value references, in-placeness, and recursion.  Dave Thomson will present a curiosity involving queue performance.  Steve Solga will be presenting a set of personal library functions, including some examples of Sexy User Interfaces and GUI tricks and techniques.

   Please sign up at ni.com so that the appropriate amount of pizza can be ordered.  Hope to see you there!

[Dave_Thomson]

   We set the ALARM schedule for next year.  The next meetings will be:
Dec 9, 2010, at CU

Feb 17, 2011 at CSM

May 19, 2011 at CU

Sept 15, 2011 at CSM

Dec 9, 2011 at CU

Note that the December meetings are moved up a week earlier than usual to keep them further from the holidays.

   Don't forget to sign up ahead of time on the NI website.  Also, drop us a note if you would like to present.  And finally, don't forget about NITS on November 4 this year.

DaveT

[Dave_Thomson]

National Instruments Technical Symposium

Register for the National Instruments Technical Symposium, a series of free, full-day conferences featuring the latest developments for automation, manufacturing, design, and test. With an agenda format including keynote presentations from NI experts as well as a variety of technical and hands-on sessions, the conference offers information on emerging industry trends within a valuable networking forum and product exhibition.

Highlights

• See new product demonstrations and network with colleagues and professionals
• Learn how industry leaders are adapting NI products to meet their specific application needs
• Further your knowledge and maximize the use of your NI tools
• Build your application development expertise through hands-on tutorials
• Collaborate with exhibitors to discover product and integration solutiions
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For more information and the link to the agenda and registration is below. 

http://sine.ni.com/nievents/app/offering/p/offeringId/552673/site/nic/country/us/lang/en

[Matt Cate]

Here's one more. NI has announced the next virtual user group meeting topic. Join LabVIEW Product Manager, Eli Kerry, on Wednesday, November 10 at 11:00 a.m. CT for a discussion on best practices for software development in LabVIEW.

Best Practices for Software Development

As software becomes rapidly more complex and plays a growing role in mission-critical applications, developers need to abide by established software engineering practices in order to ensure that an application is reliable, safe and fault tolerant.  This presentation will examine the typical development life cycle and explain the best practices and recommendations for programming with LabVIEW in a structured development environment. Topics will include configuration management, tracking and identifying changes that are made to code, requirements gathering, code architecture, ensuring proper style guidelines, validation of code, dynamic code analysis, and professional deployment practices. Register today!

[Dave_Thomson]

Our next ALARM meeting is on December 9th at 6:30 pm.  It will be held in rooms 415/417 of the UMC on the CU campus in Boulder.

Craig Eidson, LabVIEW Architect from Optimation Technology, will be giving a presentation on "XML in LabVIEW". LabVIEW offers several different libraries and add-ons for using this universally accessible file format. Craig will be covering different ways of using XML within LabVIEW as well as some of the pitfalls and challenges developers will face when working with this file type.

Steve Solga and Dave Thomson will talk about circular buffers.  Dave will present an example of a data acquisition program he's working on that uses a custom built circular buffer based on a functional global with convenient accessor methods.  Steve will then offer up a new idea for a short-cut to a high-performance circular buffer using lossy queues.

Please sign up with NI for this event so that we can get an accurate count for the pizza order.

[Dave_Thomson]

A problem with the room reservation has caused a change of venu.  The December 9th meeting will now take place at the George Reynolds Public Library in Boulder.  Sorry for the short notice.

[Dave_Thomson]

The schedule for ALARM meetings in 2011 is:
March 17, CSM, Golden

May 19, Boulder

September 15, CSM, Golden

Decebmer 15, Boulder

ALARM meetings start at 6:30 on Thursday nights.  The Boulder location has been changing and is TBD.

[RKING]

Might want to change the location for the CSU meetings to Fort Collins.

[LaurelA]

Meeting should say CSM, Colorado School of Mines.

Laurel

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[LaurelA]

It should read "CSM" n Golden.

Laurel

Laurel.A.Watts

NOAA R/CSD6

325 Broadway

Boulder, CO 80305

(303)497-7418