January’s Geek challenge is from the field of Topology, which is the study of continuity and connectivity of shapes. This field of math gives us such gems as the Hairy Ball Theorem. A Continuous Deformation of a shape is what you can ...
Alex Krejcie, Systems Engineer Each month DMC's Employee Spotlight takes a closer look at a different employee to learn more about the people who make up Team DMC. This month, Alex Krejcie's shares his "board sports" enthusias...
It can sometimes be a challenge to create good looking User Interfaces in LabVIEW – or at least UIs that don’t look like they were built in LabVIEW. One of the easiest ways to make your UIs look a little flashier is to add custom buttons ...
Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.
With Android operating system’s market share growing rapidly, the appeal for developers to release their applications on this platform has never been higher. Android is quite developer friendly, and as it matures the variety of applications has...
Anyone that has worked with SharePoint 2010 workflows knows what a valuable tool they can be for a variety of tasks. However, list workflows in particular suffer from a reusability problem. While site and reusable workflows are by design (a...
Today I had to restore user authentication on a SharePoint farm. The farm had been functional yesterday, but upon arriving into work this morning users would get a low-level error message when trying to log in. Microsoft pushed out some security p...
As I explained in a previous post, a client had need of copying appointments from an Exchange shared calendar to a SharePoint calendar. I recently encountered a bug in calendar lists that I thought I should share. The task was to populate a ShareP...
I'm always trying to get my daughters, ages 8 & 5, interested in what we do here at DMC. It's a challenge because I have a hard enough time explaining what DMC does to someone I meet at a cocktail party, never mind a couple of young kids....
There are many good options for automation and controls redundancy out there. Here is an example we just recently used in the field. The customer specified a requirement of complete redundancy for all IT, networking, and HMI components of one of a la...