As portable devices become more capable, powerful and smaller, people expect them to have more features, perform better, and replace the functionality of multiple devices. However, while embedded performance has skyrocketed, battery performance has s...
This month's Geek Challenge takes the classic quick crossword puzzle to a new nerdy level. Simply answer the clues to solve the puzzle. Submit your answers to geekchallenge@dmcinfo.com. The first person to respond with the mos...
DMC will be attending the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) 2013 Executive Conference from May 1 - 4. The annual CSIA conference provides certified control system integrators from around the world a unique opportunity to share industry ex...
Microsoft's "New Office 365" plan lineup for 2013 is pretty extensive, providing customers with many choices to consider. Since you cannot change plan families (more on this later), it is critical to be aware of a few subtle, but&n...
Dan Freve, Project Manager 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, Dan Freve gives us a peek at DMC's new tilt-table demo and his C...
Although some engineers might want to think otherwise, the employees at DMC are not robots. We are humans and humans thrive on variety. Unlike robots, humans can’t work continuously for eight hours and produce the same results because we get ti...
The Shamrock Shuffle 8K is a favorite DMC tradition. Employees have represented DMC in the 4.97 mile race through downtown Chicago every year since 2005. The Shamrock Shuffle is meant to be the first big race of spring and is traditionally held in Ma...
SharePoint offers a little-known but incredibly useful feature allowing for bulk adds, updates, and deletes of list items via the SPWeb.ProcessBatchData method. The usage is a bit complex because you need to pass CAML markup to the method to perform ...
Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment. Learn more about DMC's company culture.
I had the opportunity recently to work for a client who wanted to extract log data from a Siemens WinAC PLC using a C# .NET client. The application was archiving software that would run when another software component encountered an error. Log data w...