Review of "The LabVIEW Style Book"

[jwdz]

The LabVIEW Style Book is very good book.

Thinking in LabVIEW

Best-Practice Style Rules and Standards for Developing Quality LabVIEW Software

Drawing on the experiences of a world-class LabVIEW development organization, The LabVIEW Style Book is the definitive guide to best practices in LabVIEW development.

Leading LabVIEW development manager Peter A. Blume presents practical guidelines or "rules" for optimizing every facet of your applications: ease of use, efficiency, readability, simplicity, performance, maintainability, and robustness. Blume explains each style rule thoroughly, presenting realistic examples and illustrations. He even presents "nonconforming" examples that show what not to do-and why not.

Coverage includes

• Significance of style: How good style improves quality and actually saves time over the full project life cycle
• Before you code: Configuring your LabVIEW environment, and organizing your files on disk and in the LabVIEW project
• LabVIEW project specifications: A specialized standard for specifying LabVIEW application requirements
• Efficient VI layout and development: front panel, block diagram, icons, and connectors
• Data structures: Choosing data types, efficient use of arrays and clusters, and special considerations with nested data structures
• Error handling strategies: Trapping and reporting errors for robust and reliable applications
• Design patterns: Standard VI architectures and application frameworks that promote good style
• Documentation: Essential rules for source code documentation and streamlining the process
• Code reviews: Enforcing a style convention using a checklist, the LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit, and peer reviews
• Appendixes: Convenient glossary and style rules summary

This book will be indispensable to anyone who wants to develop or maintain quality LabVIEW applications: developers, managers, and end users alike. Additionally, it will also be valuable to those preparing for NI's Certified LabVIEW Developer or Certified LabVIEW Architect exams, which contain significant content on development style.

372 page comprehensive reference 

Chapter 1          The Significance of Style
Chapter 2          Prepare for Good Style
Chapter 3          Front Panel Style
Chapter 4          Block Diagram
Chapter 5          Icon and Connector
Chapter 6          Data Structures
Chapter 7          Error Handling
Chapter 8          Design Patterns
Chapter 9          Documentation
Chapter 10         Code Reviews
Appendix A       Glossary
Appendix B       Style Rules Summary

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[parthabe]

Good one !

[ohiofudu]

Hay!!!!!!

Nice book .I have gone through the 10 chapters it was a nice time learning good LabVIEW style.
But I have not be able to lay my hand on the VIs from bloomy .com the VIs are not there as stated in the book.

CLAD

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

I got mine last week. Very good book from what I have skimmed through so far.

[Peter_Blume]

Hello Everyone. My name is Peter Blume, the author of The LabVIEW Style Book. Thank you for the kind words regarding the book. I hope you find it useful. I am interested in any feedback you may have on the companion web site: www.bloomy.com/lvstyle. I understand there are some downloads missing and/or some of the links are not working properly. Please send specific feedback to me via the "E-mail the Author" link.

I look forward to reviewing your comments.

Sincerely,

Peter Blume

[labmaster]

I am a reader of P. Blume's Style book.

Despite of good statements for various topics in Labview,  the book has some disadvantages.

For example, the book has no any supplement like CD.

Therefore you have to imagine only in your brain.

(No example files anywhere)

What the worst is P. Blume promised the reader to download some important files such as template, but I can't find any files on the homepage.

(In the endnote, "Template for several of the design patterns discussed in this chapter can be downloaded from www.bloomy.com/lvstyle")

Secondly, I emailed to complain about this  SEVERAL TIMES but didn't get any responses from publisher and author(P. Blume)

Therefore, I have to recommend strongly this book to good experienced people.

Lee

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Hello Everyone. My name is Peter Blume, the author of The LabVIEW Style Book. Thank you for the kind words regarding the book. I hope you find it useful. I am interested in any feedback you may have on the companion web site: www.bloomy.com/lvstyle. I understand there are some downloads missing and/or some of the links are not working properly. Please send specific feedback to me via the "E-mail the Author" link.

I look forward to reviewing your comments.

Sincerely,

Peter Blume

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[RavensFan]

If you go to the link that is posted, you will see a link that says "Downloads".  I believe you have to register on the site in order to log in.  I had done that several months ago and don't recall having any problems.

[labmaster]

Dear Ravens Fan and people interested in my posting.

I hope so.

Unfortunately, the supplement on the official website is very limited.

As you can see below, there are no any templates P. Blume promised on the book.

Any other reviews will be welcomed for the best book.

---- Current downloadable items. ----

Download

Preface

Chapter 1

LabVIEW Project Specification Template

Project Directory Template

Industrial Two Button Dialog VI

Table 6-3: Controls and Data Types

Merge Multiple Errors VI

Clear Error All or Specified VI

VI Analyzer Test Configuration

Style Rules Checklist

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