Book Reviews

These are book reviews. Books are on a variety of topics: technical, business, personal growth, and some are just plain fun.

Gitting Started With Git

What do you use for source code control? While I was asking everyone I met at NI Week about what frameworks they were using, I also started asking about source code control as well. Almost everyone I talked to universally said they were using some kind of source code control.

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Good Introduction to UML

UML Distilled by Martin Fowler Unified Modelling Language (UML) is a standard way of graphically describing and designing software. If you are like a lot of LabVIEW programmers (myself included) and are a physicist, scientist or engineer by training and not a computer scientist, you may not have been exposed

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3 Marketing Books Worth Reading

We are all in Marketing. I know this blog is supposed to be about LabVIEW and automation, but if we’re honest, we are all in marketing. Whether you work for yourself as a consultant or if you work for an Alliance Partner or some large industrial company, you constantly

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The software engineering book I should have read 10 years ago

I recently just finished reading “A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW” by Jon Conway and Steve Watts. The whole time I was reading it, I couldn’t help but think: “I wish I would have read this 10 years ago. It would have saved me a lot of trouble.” Background