Meeting Thursday, November 7th, 2019: Topic: Reusable Code and Error Handling

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Meeting Logistics

• Location: Mopac C, Room 1S13 @ NI headquarters 11500 North MoPac Expressway, Austin TX
• Date: Thursday, November 7th, 2019
• Time: 6:00 PM Central Time
• Duration: ~2 hours
• Format: Presentations and discussion
• Food: An accurate headcount helps here so please register if you are attending in-person. Please register here. Even NI employees can use the online registration, there is no longer a need for a separate NI only email. If you are attending remotely, there is no need to register, just join us using the Remote Attendance coordinates below.

Meeting Topics

GCentral

Presenter: Chris Cilino

Chris gave a small teaser during the August 1st meeting. 

• GCentral is for programmers who need to find, share, or collaborate on reusable G code or software engineering tools
• GCentral is a non-profit organization that provides a platform for G code packages and collaboration resources
• GCentral is independent and driven by community experts

GCentral's aim: 

• A LabVIEW community making the best version of itself
• Improving our community's capability through collaboration

Specifically, GCentral wants to enable the LabVIEW community to make the best version of itself by removing barriers to

• Discovering and using reuse libraries 
• Contributing reuse libraries 
• Co-developing of reuse libraries 
• Confidently relying on reuse libraries

What to Expect When You are Expecting an Error

Presenter: Darren Nattinger

Connecting error wires across nodes on a block diagram is one of the most common brainless tasks performed by a LabVIEW programmer. Unfortunately, this often means that VI behavior in an error condition is a second thought if it's even thought about at all. This presentation will cover best practices with regards to the generation and propagation of errors on the LabVIEW block diagrams. You should come out of this presentation with the ability to write VIs that are not only functionally correct in an error condition but also quickly and precisely convey their exact error handling behavior.

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