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JKI’s NIWeek 2010 Schedule

JKI — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:34:32 +0000

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!

NI Announces LabVIEW Add-on of the Year Contest

JKI — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:16:13 +0000

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!

Creating a State Diagram from the JKI State Machine with the Endevo UML Tool (video)

JKI — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:06:24 +0000

Since we released the JKI State Machine a few months ago, lots of people have been using it to build powerful, maintainable software in LabVIEW™. But did you know that the JKI State Machine can also be combined with other tools, to make it even more powerful?

The engineers at Endevo have put together a great video that shows how to use their UML Modeller with the JKI State Machine:

Click here to watch it.

And don’t forget, the JKI State Machine is a free tool from JKI Software. You can always learn more about it at jkisoft.com, or install it in just a few clicks using VI Package Manager™.

JKI NIWeek 2009 Schedule

JKI — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:09:32 +0000

We love NIWeek. It’s a great opportunity for us to connect with the LabVIEW community and share ideas. We’re busily finishing our preparations for NIWeek 2009 and want to call your attention to some of the can’t-miss events that excite us the most.

Note: You can also follow JKI Software on Twitter to stay up-to-date on any schedule changes or last-minute plans throughout the week (including impromptu foosball tournaments!). We look forward to seeing everyone in Austin in a few days!

JKI NIWeek 2009 Schedule

All Week

JKI Booth, (#335) by the Robotics Pavilion (see expo floor plan). We’ll be there all week showing off our commercial products, like VI Package Manager, the JKI TortoiseSVN Tool for LabVIEW, EasyXML, and the JKI State Machine, as well as JKI Labs tools like VI Tester and the new JKI Right Click Framework. Drop by for a demo, or to get answers to your questions, or just to chat about whatever is going on at JKI and in the LabVIEW world!

Sunday

Evening/Night: Pre-conference warmup at The Ginger Man. If you’re in town Sunday night, drop by and grab a few beers before things get hectic! Note that The Ginger Man has moved since last year — it’s only a half-block away, but check their website for the new address.

Tuesday

12:00 PM (Tech Theater): LabVIEW Experts Panel – Jim Kring will be answering LabVIEW questions, with other LabVIEW experts.

8:00 PM: LAVA/OpenG NIWeek BBQ 2009 at Stubb’s BAR-B-Q. The yearly tradition. Come enjoy great BBQ with dozens of LAVA, OpenG, and NI personalities. (Special note from LAVA: Please pay via PayPal ASAP; see the linked LAVA thread for details.)

Wednesday

8:30 AM (Ballroom G): NIWeek Keynote – you definitely want to see this one! And, make sure to keep your eye out for a world-premier demo of some amazing new tools from JKI Software.

10:30 AM-11:30 AM (Room 16B): TS1238-SW – LabVIEW Code Reuse for Teams and Large Projects, presented by Jim Kring. Abstract >> LabVIEW code reuse is a key component of team-based development, large project work, and knowledge sharing within an organization. Learn how to create a shared repository of reusable VIs and use analytics tools to report your organization’s software reuse metrics.

Bay Area LabVIEW User Group Meeting on 2009-02-18

Omar Mussa — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:05:17 +0000

If you’re going to be in the San Francisco Bay Area next Wednesday evening (February 18th, 2009 at at 6pm), then be sure to come to the LabVIEW User Group Meeting at the NI Mountain View office.

Jim Kring and Omar Mussa will be giving a demo of JKI’s new VI Tester and talking about ways to improve your software quality via unit testing.

For more details, see the meeting agenda page.

We hope to see you there!