April 22, 10 AM MT
10 things I wish I knew when I started using Git.
Using Git can be complicated. It is not designed to be user-friendly. Yet it is at the core of good software engineering practices. Unit Tests are great for telling you that you accidentally broke something, but how do you undo...
LabVIEW Shortcuts – Don’t waste time wiring…
February 24th, 10:00am MT
We are fortunate to have Stefan Lemmens join us in February. He is going to give a presentation on all the various types of LabVIEW Shortcuts. We are always looking for ways to be more efficient. These tips...
Antidoc – The Solution to Documentation
December 15th, 11:00am MT
We believe in finding better ways to write software. You can be productive and still have fun. We help developers be more productive and have more fun by taking complex software engineering topics and breaking them down...
Be A Craftsperson
August 26, 11:00am MT
The way we think about coding and the way we approach it has a huge impact on our results. Approaching software from a craftperson perspective helps us to produce high quality valuable software.
Sometimes we feel like firefighters running around putting...
Technical Skills For Agile Development
June 24, 11:00am MT
Agile has a lot to say about how we manage the software development lifecycle, but it requires good technical skills to be successful.
Often we get caught up in the software development lifecycle side of agile software development. It is...
Designing a Scripting Tool By Example
April 29, 11:00am MT
I keep repeating the same boring steps aver and over again. There has to be a better way.
If you’ve ever felt this way, then this webinar is for you. As programmers we automate things. That’s what we do. Why not apply those...
Mock Objects
February 26, 11:00am MT
I want to verify that my code uses some other object correctly.
Sometimes the code you are testing interacts with some other component. Maybe it’s a database, a network connection, or a piece of hardware. This type of code can be really hard to...
Refactoring
December 11 11:00am MT
I need to add a feature but it is too hard.
Refactoring can help! Refactoring is the art of taking existing code and waking it easier to understand and modify without actually changing it’s behavior. Why? Friction. Code is read more often than it is...
Test Driven Development
October 23 11:00am MT
I Tried Unit Testing But Testing My Existing Code Is Too Hard!
That’s because you have got the order wrong! Writing unit tests after the fact is possible, but it is always hard. Why? Because whoever wrote it never thought about testing it and...
Basic Continuous Integration with GitLab and LabVIEW – 8/28 at 11am MT
How do I make sure my unit tests get run regularly?
Maybe you have unit tests, vi analyzer tests, and a build process in place but how often do you actually run them? What if one action that we already do every day (ie...
How do I make sure my code works?
If you have ever asked that question then this presentation is for you. Find out how unit testing can help you verify that your code works and help you track down bugs when it doesn’t.
We’ll talk about the basics of unit testing using JKI Vi Tester....
Choosing a Framework – April 24th 11am -12pm MST
So many choices
DQMH, AF, DCAF, SMO, ALOHA, TLB, and I’m probably still missing some. There are lots of LabVIEW Frameworks out there (and they all have cryptic