Recently there has been a lot of questioning concerning the licensing of the LabVIEW inside container images, mainly after one of my posts about using LabVIEW with Docker. In this post, I am going to discuss one of the methods that I used successfully for a long time, and without any problems, I mean, only … Continue reading Licensing LabVIEW with Docker Images
Category: Developer Tools
JSON Pretty Print – revisited
Last week I was surfing the internet (does anyone use this expression yet?) and I stumbled upon a project for minifying JSON in multiple languages, and LabVIEW wasn't there yet. The Problem As for the most acquainted with JSON, you probably already know that comments are not cited in the RFC or ECMA Standards, and … Continue reading JSON Pretty Print – revisited
Introducing badges for Gitlab
Have you ever tried to use more specialized badges for your private project in Gitlab? Were you always envious of the Github projects with plenty of badges available out of the box? What are badges? Badges are those small images that shows information about your git project. By default, Gitlab supports only two types of … Continue reading Introducing badges for Gitlab
Automate your versioning (part 3)
Now it comes the final part of our 3 part series of automating your versioning with git based projects (maybe 5, if you include releasing and deploying part). Below I am posting the links for the complete series, if you want read it all: Automate Your Versioning (Part 1)Automate Your Versioning (Part 2)Automate Your Versioning … Continue reading Automate your versioning (part 3)
Automate your versioning (part 2)
As promised, here is the second part of the series for automating your versioning. EDIT: Below I am posting the links for the complete series, if you want read it all: Automate Your Versioning (Part 1)Automate Your Versioning (Part 2)Automate Your Versioning (Part 3)Release Automation with Gitlab CIDeploy with Gitlab CI In the first part, … Continue reading Automate your versioning (part 2)
LabVIEW + Docker + Windows = Match?
The last few weeks I've been busy, I mean, really busy trying to figure out how to assemble everything together, and I finally got something to work. After all, is LabVIEW + Docker + Windows, a match? Continuous Integration During my mission of implementing Continuous Integration in my development workflow it wasn't clear until so … Continue reading LabVIEW + Docker + Windows = Match?
Project Templates Script
Following a previous post that I did about standardization of projects in LabVIEW, I decided to create a script for doing this automatically using the given template. My inspiration was a post in Sam's Blog about automating this task with a script (special thanks). I did a few modifications to adapt my workflow here such … Continue reading Project Templates Script
VI Analyzer and Git
For a while we've been trying to adopt good software engineering practices with LabVIEW. We've been aware of the VI Analyzer and the benefits of including the static code analysis in the workflow. For those who not know, the VI Analyzer Toolkit provides tests to your code that helps validate some style and practices and, … Continue reading VI Analyzer and Git
Project Templates
Hey, I'm back. It's been a while without posting, and now I'm bringing something that I've been researching in the past few weeks. It's been about project templates, more precisely, project structures. What is known... That was always my complaint about LabVIEW, I've never seen a similar a project structure, and it is easy to … Continue reading Project Templates
Managing Dependencies in SCC – Part 2 – The Solution
So, in the first post of this issue, I wrote about what problems and issues I had and what I was seeking to solve them. As I told before a co-worker told me that Gitlab has some extended features and then he introduced me to the Gitlab API. Then I started my quest of developing … Continue reading Managing Dependencies in SCC – Part 2 – The Solution