I always like to say that documentation should live with the code, within the code or besides the code. That's always what I try to do, write at least some decent README, and write some documentation inside the code. But writing a big documentation file is always a challenge, as it keeps growing, it becomes … Continue reading Enhance your code documentation
Category: Software Engineering
LabVIEW and Gitlab Package Registry
In this post I want to discuss about a feature not very known by many users of Gitlab. Since version 13.5 Gitlab has available the generic package registry, which is a way to upload "generic packages" to Gitlab. Build Storage Dilemma Before getting into the package registry subject, there is a very important thing to … Continue reading LabVIEW and Gitlab Package Registry
Class Comparisons Examples
Few days ago I was playing around with LabVIEW trying to raise some use cases for making class comparisons, I mean, equal comparisons. I went further and decided to play around with some type casting (to more specific node and preserve run time node), so it was when I decided to stop, and I got … Continue reading Class Comparisons Examples
Deploy your project in Gitlab CI
As a continuation of my series for "Automating your Versioning", I found valid to include a deploy stage in the series after the "release post". 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 … Continue reading Deploy your project in Gitlab CI
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)
Automating your versioning (part 1)
Hey everyone. As promised, I am writing this new series on how to automate your releases/versioning using a git based source code control management. To achieve this I believe I might write two or three blog posts, let's see how it goes. I started from the end showing a release automation process, but there are … Continue reading Automating your versioning (part 1)
Gitlab Runner and LabVIEW-CLI
Usually I've been trying to run all my testing pipeline using docker images (docker image repo). Mainly because it is a very clean and nice way to run reproducible tests, as each container has a limited life cycle and gets destroyed after a job. Last week (for some reason that I am still trying to … Continue reading Gitlab Runner and LabVIEW-CLI
Release Automation with Gitlab CI
Hey everyone, I am back. I am having some time to write in the Carnaval Holidays. This time I will talk about a feature in Gitlab that is not explored in many projects, mayb because it is not part of the git itself, but it has been a way to describe the tags and attach … Continue reading Release Automation with Gitlab CI
Gitlab Code Quality Report – Update
Hi everyone, it's been a while without writing something. Not that I don't want to, but this 2020 has been very crazy. Many changes, including the goals in LabVIEW IDE development with dropping the development of NXG (see here). But, this post is about the latest update (a bit late) in Gitlab 13.6, where introduced … Continue reading Gitlab Code Quality Report – Update
