One question that has come up a few times is “how did you learn Rust?” I am sharing my path with Rust and the other languages I have experimented with. I want to emphasise that it is great for any developer to take some of these first steps into other Read more…
I’ve written a high-level view of why I got interested in Rust on the Wiresmith Technology site. After many conversations at GDevCon last week, I felt it would be helpful to put down the technical reasons that Rust appealed to me and how I (and therefore you) could decide what Read more…
This is going to be super specific! Recently I had a project where we needed to move data from a LinuxRT controller to a USB stick for offline data transfer. As reported on the NI forums at https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/cRIO-Close-USB-Flash-Drive/td-p/3327336/page/2 the problem is, removing the USB stick without unmounting it causes a Read more…
Over the last few years I’ve expanded the programming languages I’ve worked with. There have been business and technical requirements driving this but it has been remarkably beneficial to my skills as a developer as well. By learning other languages I’ve found two huge benefits that stretch across all my Read more…
For a long time I largely ignored branches in git when working on my own. Quite frankly, as a solo developer I saw no benefit. I understood gitflow and its brethren but it looked like more work for me and no benefit. (again, as a solo developer, I have recommended Read more…
For a while now, I’ve worked on using HTML pages as an interface to a remote cRIO system. In the National Grid power quality system I worked on, each unit has a web page for monitoring and configuration. One thing that is much easier with HTML is making dynamic pages. Read more…
This is a VERY specific post – but it took me a while to avoid red herrings so I thought it was worth sharing. Sorry LabVIEW folks – this is all about LinuxRT! I had a system that was having issues connecting to a HTTPS server (for WebDAV). It had Read more…
Hello Everyone, As you can imagine, there is a lot of uncertainty in the GDevCon team right now about how we handle GDevCon and COVID-19. We have been trying to figure out the right path to take with GDevCon. One of the things I think that we could have done Read more…
Having worked for myself (and by myself mostly) for a few years now I feel lucky that I have had some training for the “new-normal”. Right now things look OK for me – My current projects can largely be worked on remotely. But what if you can’t? So here is Read more…
This week I’ve been helping some developers with unit testing adoption which raise an interesting topic that I’ve not seen explicitly addressed. Unit testing is great when you are working with simple data but what if you have larger or more complex data such as waveforms or images? I’ve used Read more…