Random Ramblings on LabVIEW Design

Review of the Year 2014

Festive greetings my Glorious G-Programming Gorgeousnesses it's time to recap the year

Where has LabVIEW taken us this year???

Work

Lots of Laboratory Management systems for me, plus some cRIO data logging, Oscilloscopes, Oil filter test systems, materials research testers (various). For Adrian and Jon instrumenting up a truck to fire lasers into the sky, cRIO comms hacking on ships, quite a lot of pressure test systems, high speed bearing test system and jet engine test software.

We've also been ploughing through ISO9000 certification.

We lost our project management and hosting system to hackers, if you've been paying attention you will have read all about that and the rebuilding effort.

This year was more difficult than last year but we've really made some advances in areas important to us and the forecast for next year is rosy indeed!

Blog

20 articles this year, >50000 views and 400+ comments passed and I'm still enjoying writing it although I expect the articles will have a longer gestation next year, with help from Jon and all the wonderful contributors. A huge thank-you to everyone, hopefully we'll have some more great discussions and collective brain scratching next year. I need to find some more contrary opinions I think.

Twitter

I finally got a phone with some smarts and can now be followed on @swatzyssdc.

Favorite Tweet belonging to me so far has to be .....

As you can see I'm being highly professional in my approach to social marketing!

CLA Summit

I was privileged to present about process smells at CERN in Geneva and it made me smile for weeks afterwards. The other presentations were fantastic and worth the effort of getting a CLA. A truly inspiring place and I got lost in a casino car park after drinking a tower of beer amid a lot of giggling.

Here's the where we got shown round ---> CMS detector

Tower of Beer Beer Beer! It made me happy!

CSLUG

4 meetings this year and some excellent material covered, the May meeting coincided with the inaugural CLD summit in Newbury. Our December meeting was broadcast and put on youtube. This is available if you join CSLUG and follow us in Google+ (This is a protected site because we want some freedom in our discussions)

Subjects covered...

Recursion

Re-use

A lot of amazing applications

SQLite (including James Powells fantastic application)

Version Control

TDMS

And much more besides......

It really has become a nice forum and I don't have to present every time too . The distance people are traveling is really stunning.

Adrian and I popped over to SoWLUG(UK) in October and I even got a round of applause for my presentation (don't get those at CSLUG!)