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NIWeek 2010 Recap and Technical Session Slides

by JKI on August 12, 2010 in Company News, NIWeek | 5 comments

Wow!  What a great NIWeek!  The whole JKI team had a great time at NIWeek 2010, and it was completely worth all the sleep we lost running hard to get ready for it.  We hope all our friends around the LabVIEW Ecosystem enjoyed it as much as we did, and for those who weren’t able to make it to Austin, we’re sorry we missed you!

NIWeek 2010 was a big event for JKI. It was probably our biggest NIWeek ever:

NIWeek 2010 JKI Technical Session Slides Now Available

Several people have asked us to post our NIWeek 2010 presentation slides so those who missed the talks can catch up.  Download the slides for these presentations below.

  • From Prototypes to Products — Building Commercial Instruments with LabVIEW by Omar Mussa.  PDF (1.2 MB)
  • LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming Design Patterns for Large Systems by Tomi Maila. PDF (180 KB) Example Code ZIP (532 KB)
    (NOTE: The example code for this presentation requires the free JKI State Machine.  Download it from the LabVIEW Tools Network.)
  • Hands-on – Build a LabVIEW Add-on with VIPM by Michael Aivaliotis (JKI), Chris Bolin (NI). ZIP (2.2MB)
  • Popcorn Tweets: LabVIEW Goes Viral by Justin Goeres. PDF (3.1 MB)
  • State Machine vs. State Machine by Justin Goeres (JKI), Nancy Hollenback (The G Team), and Norm Kirchner (NI). PDF (745 KB)

If you have questions or feedback on these slides, please don’t hesitate to post them in the comments below, or start a discussion in our forums.

VIPM Powers the NI LabVIEW Tools Network

by JKI on August 3, 2010 in Company News, VIPM | 2 comments

LabVIEW Tools Network JKI is pleased to announce that VI Package Manager™ 2010 (VIPM) is the official download vehicle of National Instruments’ LabVIEW™ Tools Network (LVTN). This represents the culmination of a lot hard work, in collaboration with National Instruments, to make it easy for LabVIEW users everywhere to create, share, and sell LabVIEW Add-ons.

VIPM 2010 includes lots of great features specifically tailored to help users find and install LabVIEW Add-ons from the LVTN, and to help add-on developers distribute their products to thousands of users and customers around the world.

If you’re a LabVIEW User…

VIPM 2010 automatically connects you to the LVTN. You can use VIPM’s built-in search features to find the LabVIEW Add-ons you need and can install them into your LabVIEW environment in just a couple clicks. VIPM also notifies you when new versions of your add-ons are available and makes upgrading them a breeze.

If you’re a LabVIEW Add-on Developer…

VIPM’s “VI Package” format is the fastest, most efficient, and lowest-risk way to put your product in front of thousands of LabVIEW users on the LVTN.

VIPM’s built-in features like palette generation, platform requirements settings, and dynamic license and activation binding (via NI’s Licensing and Activation Toolkit) make it easy to comply with all the requirements to submit your add-on to the LVTN. This means that your add-on will be less likely to be rejected by NI on review.

Once your add-on is published to the LVTN, it will appear automatically in the package list of every VIPM user. Thousands of LabVIEW users will immediately be able to install and evaluate (and buy!) your LabVIEW Add-on.

These reasons and more are why National Instruments recommends VIPM for building LabVIEW Add-ons for the LabVIEW Tools Network. Visit our VIPM product page to learn more about VIPM and get started downloading, creating, and sharing LabVIEW Add-ons today!

JKI’s NIWeek 2010 Schedule

by JKI on July 27, 2010 in NIWeek | 6 comments

NIWeek 2010 is only a few days away!  It’s always a big event for us, and we’ll be there to show you and tell you about all the exciting stuff we’ve been working on.

VISIT THE JKI BOOTH AT NIWEEK 2010

Be sure to check us out at Booth #841 by the Connect @NIWeek Lounge area – see expo floor map).

ATTEND OUR TECHNICAL SESSIONS

JKI engineers will be presenting and participating in several technical sessions at NIWeek 2010. Come to our sessions and learn about everything from basic state machine usage to advanced OOP design, and from commercial software development to viral video creation!

Tuesday

State Machine vs. State Machine (TS3012-SW)
Co-presented by Nancy Hollenback (G Team), Justin Goeres (JKI), and Norm Kirchner (NI)

Do you start all LabVIEW components with the producer-consumer design pattern, or do you use a full-featured state machine? Watch two Certified LabVIEW Architects face off over who has the best state machine and which features are essential for your template.

Tuesday 8/3/2010 at 10:30 AM
Room 12B

From Prototypes to Products — Building Commercial Instruments with LabVIEW (TS3032-ED)

by Omar Mussa (JKI) and Jim Kring (JKI)

NI hardware and graphical system design tools enable rapid prototyping in the R&D lab and serve as an excellent platform for commercial products. Learn how to overcome the special challenges of commercial software development and avoid rewrites in text-based languages by seamlessly evolving your prototype LabVIEW applications into shipping products.

Tuesday 8/3/2010 at 1:00 PM
Room 16A

Popcorn Tweets: LabVIEW Goes Viral (TS3965-CE)
by Justin Goeres (JKI)

Learn how the world’s first Twitter-Powered Popcorn Machine, programmed in LabVIEW, became a viral video. Listen to JKI Senior Engineer Justin Goeres as he explains how he used LabVIEW and LabVIEW add-ons to create a machine that monitors Twitter for “#popcorn” tweets, dispenses popcorn kernels, and pops real popcorn.

Tuesday 8/3/2010 at 1:00 PM
Room 11A

(You can also see Popcorn Tweets in action in the LabVIEW Community Zone all week long!)

Hands-On: How to Build a LabVIEW Add-On (HOL4021-SW)
Co-presented by Michael Aivaliotis (JKI) and Chris Bolin (NI)

Walk through the process of building a LabVIEW add-on and how to package an add-on with the VI Package Manager to plug into the LabVIEW palettes. Also learn about commonly used APIs and how to add licensing and activation to your product.

Tuesday 8/3/2010 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM (2hrs)
Room 18C

Wednesday

We Are the Champions (TS4012-CE)
Co-presented by Jim Kring (JKI), Christopher Relf (VIE), Edwin Dickens (DISTek) and Nancy Hollenback (G Team)

Do you have dreams of becoming a LabVIEW champion? Learn from the top LabVIEW community members who are recognized for their leadership, expertise, and contributions to the technical community. NI LabVIEW Champions are credible technology experts from around the world who inspire others to learn and grow with LabVIEW.

Wednesday 8/4/2010 at 2:15 PM
Room 11A

Thursday

LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming Design Patterns for Large Systems (TS3037-SW)
by Tomi Maila (JKI) and Jim Kring (JKI)

LabVIEW object-oriented capabilities present new possibilities for large applications built on loosely coupled, event-driven components and frameworks. Find out how to reuse components across several applications by employing proven software engineering techniques such as inheritance, dynamic methods, dependency injection, and user events.

Thursday 8/5/10 at 1:00 PM
Room 12A

CONNECT WITH THE LABVIEW COMMUNITY

JKI will be well-represented at the annual LAVA / OpenG NIWeek Bar-B-Q on Tuesday night!

NIWeek 2010 is almost here. We’re excited and we can’t wait to see all our friends and collaborators from around the LabVIEW Ecosystem! See you next week in Austin!

[Update 2010-08-13: We have posted our presentation slides in a new blog post: NIWeek 2010 Recap and Technical Session Slides]

VIPM 2010 Private Beta is Live

by JKI on June 10, 2010 in Company News, VIPM | 1 comment

VIPM 2010 has entered beta testing…

and we need your help!

VIPM 2010 has lots of cool improvements like major performance boosts, better configuration management tools, and support for 64-bit LabVIEW.  But more importantly, it sports a completely redesigned Package Builder that lets you package any type of LabVIEW Add-on you can think of.

Can you prove us wrong?  Is there a special kind of package you’ve been unable to build because VIPM (until now) didn’t support what you needed?  Are you an enthusiastic VIPM user and you want to help us improve the product before we ship it?

If any of those apply to you, please go here and sign up for the VIPM 2010 Beta Program.

We’re looking forward to hearing your feedback!

NI Announces LabVIEW Add-on of the Year Contest

by JKI on June 4, 2010 in NIWeek | No comments

Over in the NI Communities, Jeff Meisel just announced a new NIWeek 2010/LabVIEW Add-on of the Year Contest. Entries are due by July 9th, and the winner will be announced at NIWeek 2010. Then, all the finalists will get a chance to present their tools at a Community Track presentation the following day!

Everyone at JKI is really excited for the contest.  It’s a great way for NI to encourage & reward LabVIEW Add-on developers, and we can’t wait to see the finalists.

And if you’re planning to submit an entry, don’t forget that VI Package Manager is the best tool for creating, distributing, and installing LabVIEW add-ons!

Introducing GTweet: Twitter-Driven, Crowd-Sourced LabVIEW Development

by JKI on April 1, 2010 in Company News | 1 comment

Today, the Social LabVIEW Revolution begins.

JKI is proud to announce GTweet: the world’s first Twitter-driven, crowd-sourced LabVIEW software development tool!

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A Revolution in Dataflow!

GTweet harnesses the combined powers of Twitter and LabVIEW Scripting to open the door to a whole new way of creating software. No longer is LabVIEW constrained to a single engineer at a single computer. Anyone can collaborate with any number of friends and strangers, to create LabVIEW software together.

Simple, Yet Profound!

Using a special Twitter hashtag, GTweet listens for commands from the global Twitter feed. These commands enable users around the globe to tell LabVIEW exactly which nodes to drop where, which terminals to wire, and any other programming tasks.

And since everyone can GTweet together, GTweet is limited only by the power of your social LabVIEW network!

You Tweet. It Wires. Click to enlarge.

Social Dataflow has arrived. Click to enlarge.

A New Paradigm in Software Development!

GTweet isn’t just LabVIEW-by-Twitter. It’s a whole new way to think about programming.

It enables your development team to bring the modern thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters theory of software engineering to LabVIEW. By using GTweet, you never have to worry about who is working on a particular VI. Everyone can edit the same VIs in parallel!

More eyes on the code means fewer bugs! More engineers means faster progress!

Social Media, Social LabVIEW!

GTweet merely scratches the surface of social collaboration in LabVIEW. Like Twitter itself, GTweet is merely the gateway to a novel concept that JKI calls social dataflow.

As the social media landscape continues to grow and change, JKI is making sure that LabVIEW, and GTweet, will set the standard. Why just ReTweet, when you can GTweet?

How will GTweet change your life? Tell us in the comments. Or better yet, tweet about it!

Follow JKI on Twitter!

If you use Twitter and you use LabVIEW, you should definitely follow JKI! You can follow the main JKI Software account, and you can also follow some of the individual JKI engineers: Jim, Justin, Michael, Omar, or Tomi. If you pay close attention, you might catch us using GTweet to invent The Next Big Thing in dataflow!

Special Thanks!

JKI would like to thank Darren Nattinger for providing the grammar for GTweet, and also some of the other secret sauce.

EasyXML 2.0 Released, Brings Performance Improvements and Fixes

by JKI on March 31, 2010 in Company News, EasyXML

We’ve just released EasyXML 2.0, a major update to the tool that makes generating and parsing XML data with LabVIEW as easy as creating a cluster!

What’s New in EasyXML 2.0?

EasyXML 2.0 includes major performance improvements when parsing XML.  It also fixes several bugs.  See the EasyXML 2.0 Release Notes for full details.

Download EasyXML

You can download & install the demo version of EasyXML using VI Package Manager.  Just press the “Check the Network for Available Packages” button to refresh your package list, and then install the jki_lib_easyxml-2.0-1 package.  The demo version of EasyXML is fully functional, but periodically displays a reminder dialog urging you to upgrade to the paid version.

Purchase EasyXML

If you try EasyXML and like it, you can purchase the full version of EasyXML in our store.

Special Discount for Existing EasyXML Customers

JKI is pleased to offer a free upgrade to EasyXML 2.0 for any customers who purchased EasyXML on or after January 1, 2010.  We also offer a 35% discount on EasyXML 2.0 to all other previous EasyXML customers.  If you are an existing EasyXML customer, you should be receiving an email with instructions on how to redeem these discounts.  If you don’t, please send an email to customer-service@jkisoft.com with your original Order # or the email address you used to place the order, and let us know!

VIPM 3.0 is Incompatible with LabVIEW 2010 Beta – Fix is on the Way!

by JKI on March 4, 2010 in Company News, VIPM | No comments

There is a known issue using VIPM 3.0 that prevents VIPM from managing VI Packages installed in LabVIEW 2010 beta.  We’ve identified the cause and will have a new version of VIPM (3.0.1) out soon that fixes the issue.  If you need this fix immediately and/or would like to help test the release candidate, please contact us.

Bug photo courtesy of spakattacks.

JKI Software Sweeps Olympic Ice Hockey Medals

by JKI on March 1, 2010 in Company News | No comments

This past week’s Ice Hockey semifinals and finals were some of the most anticipated sporting events of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, and JKI scored big.  Nations represented by JKI engineers swept the medals in both the Men’s AND Women’s events!

GOLD
Canada
(Michael)

SILVER
United States of America
(Jim, Justin, Omar)

BRONZE
Finland
(Tomi)

At JKI we’re proud to have a diverse staff of talented professionals from around the globe.  That makes international events like the Olympics particularly exciting, but it’s not often that our home countries make so many of us proud.

Congratulations to Michael, and to Team Canada!


Image: “Golden Flag” by Shayne Kaye (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0)

VI Tester 1.1.1 Released, Fixes LabVIEW Project Integration in LV 2009

by JKI on February 17, 2010 in VI Tester | No comments

We’ve just released VI Tester 1.1.1 on the VI Package Network.  This release contains a fix for a minor bug that caused the VI Tester toolbar to not show up in the LabVIEW 2009 Project Explorer window.

You can download & install this package using VI Package Manager.  Just press the “Check the Network for Available Packages” button to refresh your package list, then install the jki_labs_tool_vi_tester-1.1.1.137-1 package.

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