Archive for the ‘Easier Programming’ Category
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Beginners, Easier Programming, LabVIEW
Oooops…. who broke it?
“Fragile” code is code that breaks in one place because of changes you make in some other place. It’s most aggravating when you’re due to ship a new version tomorrow and you need to make one last tweak at 11:30 PM, or

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 Posted in Beginners, Easier Programming, LabVIEW
But who’s watching the watchers?
Some development environments have a concept called “watching”, where you choose a variable to watch and you see a continuous display of that variable in some window. This is very useful during debugging, as you can step through your program and

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in Beginners, Data Handling, Easier Programming, LabVIEW
The things that I used to do…
En masse is a French term meaning “as a whole” or “all together”; treating a group of something as a single unit. LabVIEW has the ability to treat arrays this way, which can greatly reduce your workload. If

Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in Beginners, Easier Programming, LabVIEW
The types, they are a-changin’
LabVIEW beginners often either don’t know about type definitions, or don’t appreciate their value. This article will attempt to explain their use and how they can save you boatloads of time and effort.
Suppose you have a cluster of items that’s very
