DMC will be leading the Tooling and Manufacturing Association's executive breakfast workshop on August 19, 2010. The event will focus on defining Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and using Microsoft SharePoint to achieve business goals. &ldqu...
32-bit applications have been around for a long time while 64-bit operating systems are only recently gaining popularity. Therefore, I would expect that the 64-bit OS successors would make it easy to run legacy 32-bit apps. And, they do a...
Ok, we really knew about this from the the Shamrock Shuffle earlier this year, but Johnathan Sullivan is now, without any ambiguity, proclaimed: "World's Fastest Engineer who works at DMC" I enjoyed being in that esteemed posit...
You are curious about SharePoint and KPI dashboards. You are still trying to determine the difference between SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint 2010, WSS and MOSS. You are not quite sure what KPI stands for. You also don’t have 7-10 extra minut...
While it is usually preferable to avoid mixing development environments for a project, sometimes we need to create a mixed platform solution. In a recent project, I needed to create a class library in C# to interact with a LabVIEW 2009 SP1 appl...
Cesar Pena: Senior Project Engineer You have had the opportunity to live and work in several different countries; what have those experiences been like? It broadens your view of the world and opens your way of thinking. You d...
In an ideal world, a design project has well defined phases with appropriate time alloted for each milestone. In the real world, clients often bring a project that is already behind schedule, needing results yesterday. Board design can be a cum...
DMC Newsletter Geek Challenge - May 2010: Devise and perform an experiment to determine the volumetric density of liquid water in the near-ground atmosphere during a hard rain. Simply put, if you could freeze time and collect all of ...
In the first part of my series, LabVIEW Data Storage: Overview of TDMS, I introduced TDMS as our preferred file format and pointed users toward exploring and using TDMS themselves. In this post, I'm assuming that you are comfortable handling chan...
This is part one of my blog series detailing the use and optimization of the TDMS format. Here is a table of contents for all blogs in this series: LabVIEW Data Storage: Overview of TDMS LabVIEW Data Storage: TDMS Performance Tweaking LabVIE...