The SAS Workshops Blog

The Case For Virtual Folders

Do you use folders on disk to organize VIs inside libraries? Why? or Why not?

Scaling

Does the advice you give depend on the size of the development team? If so, how does your advice change? and where is the limit for small versus large teams?

Coding Philosophy

The 10 Commandments of Legacy Code

I saw a great Twitter post from Joe Anderson about the 10 Commandments of Legacy Code.

GLA Summit 2024

The GLA Summit is taking place virtually this year at 25-26 March 2024. Come join us!

Unit Testing , Software Engineering , Legacy Code , Resources , Software tools , How to

Approval Testing For LabVIEW 2.0 Released

If you haven't tried approval testing yet, you definitely should. It makes unit testing a lot easier, particularly for legacy code or for verifying complicated objects.

Software tools , Continuous Integration , DevOps , Software Engineering

SAS-GCLI-TOOLS Update

The first step in setting up CI/CD is being able to perform common tasks from the CLI. Here are a set of tools to do just that.

Business

Sell like an ophthalmologist

A recent experience at the ophthalmologist makes a good case study of how to sell.

Book Reviews , Coding Philosophy , Legacy Code

The Best Book on Legacy Code I've Read Yet

You have inherited a Legacy System, what do you do now? How do you manage a successful modernization effort?

Book Reviews

Training From the Back of the Room

When you lead training are you in the front of the room or the back? Does your training implement the 4 Cs?

A screenshot showing a Git Bash Window. The command is`g-cli blue -- .` The output is "5 Files Processed 2 Formatted"

Software Engineering , Software tools , Legacy Code , Resources , Announcements

Announcing the Blue Formatter for LabVIEW

If you like Nattify, you'll probably like this tool. It lets you run Nattify on an entire directory from the command line.

Someone wearing white loafers and jeans (that is all you can see of them) sweeping with a broom and a dustpan on a stick.

Coding Philosophy

The Right Amount of Technical Debt

How do you determine the right amount of technical debt on a project? Both too much and too little can slow you down.

A cairn (stack of rocks) on a mountainside. You can see a valley and some partiall snow covered mountains in the background.

Goals

2024 Big Rocks

What are your goals for 2024? Here are mine.

Goals

2023 by the numbers

Here is a look at 2023 based on the numbers.

A block diagram showing a setup for using GitLab CI to spawn KVM VMs on demand.

Continuous Integration , How to

More on GitLab Custom Executors

If you are trouble visualizing how GitLab Custom Executors Work, here is a diagram that might help.

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Goals

2023 in Review

Here is my look back at 2023. How did your 2023 go? Did you make progress towards your goals?

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Random

Why I write

Do you have a blog? Why do you write? Have you thought about it?

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Business

If you are having trouble marketing your products and services, perhaps instead of focusing on what you sell, you may get better results by focusing on building a community of people with shared values.