FAQ's area.

[JÞB]

It has been suggested and discussed before that the community may benifit by having a series of acticles to address key aspects of using NI products that show up frequently in discussion board threads. 

Knowledge Base articles and Community Nuggets only partially fill this need since both repositories of knowledge ar less available to the casual forum memeber.

This thread is intended to offer guidance and coordination on development of this FAQ's repository.  What topics would You see covered? what form and standard should these articles conform to? What contribution do you propose?

I'll start the ball.

Two areas That I feel could be FAQ's that I have worked with:

"USB Plug-n-Play devices.  Tips to avoid common pitfalls"

"The Instrument Driver Network and Instrument Drivers" (Athough- theres a brand new tool out there! I would respectfully request a collaborator familliar with the tool)

[SteveChandler]

Kudos! There is the LabVIEW FAQ at linuxwiki.org that could use some help.

[JÞB]

Thank you Steve.  Please feel free to cross-post (IMHO)  that looks like an informative site!

Some of you have read the "USB FAQ's post.

I would love to suggest somthing almost radical. 

FAQ's articles should have a conversational tone.  I could be persuaded against that possition but, not easilly.  Technical articles describing details or "popping the hood" (duct tape optional) are KBs.  KB's are informative, difinitive, specific to the times and do (and should) have an authorative tone.  I, and I mean I, have a vision of approachable articles that ask you what your issue is, suggest to you what to do and point you where to go for deeper understanding if the FAQ does not delve deep enough to solve your challenge.

[JÞB]

Any takers for

"Comparisons with floating point numbers" ? 

There is a lot of good examples out there throughout many threads.  Searching through the example finder shows a very nice example with integers but, that is not the same thing is it?

(Hmmmm.. Should examples posted to FAQ's be considered by NI for integration into the example finders?)