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More GitLab Runner Troubleshooting Tips
I’ve been writing a lot lately about Continuous Integration and using GitLab Runner. It’s really nice when it works and it works 90% of the time, but issues do pop up occasionally. They can be a pain to troubleshoot. I previously wrote about how to run GitLabRunner as
Checking for New GitLab Releases
In my previous posts, I talked about automatic versioning and automatically creating releases. The next step is to create auto-updating code. By auto-updating I don’t mean code that automatically updates behind your user’s back ala Windows 10. You can do that if you want, but I believe the
Automatic Versioning
At the GLA Summit recently minted LabVIEW Champion Felipe Pinheiro Silva gave a 7×7 on versioning. It was interesting. Be sure to take a few minutes and watch it when the video is released. I do things slightly differently. I learned my method from another LabVIEW Champion, Stefan Lemmens.
A case for sets
Back in LabVIEW 2019, NI introduced both sets and maps. Maps became immediately popular. They should be. They are very useful constructs. However, sets seem to have gotten much less attention. In some ways, they aren’t as glamorous, but they do offer some advantages over arrays. To me, these
A Better Way To Set Up LVCompare and LVMerge
I have previously written about setting up LVCompare and LVMerge. I ran into a situation where for whatever reason that solution stopped working for me. I would launch LVMerge or LVCompare and nothing would happen. I tried some troubleshooting and couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working. In
GitLab CI and Git Bash
A while back GitLab CI deprecated the batch executor for Windows runners. That meant that you could no longer directly call batch scripts from a Gitlab Runner. They had switched over to Powershell. There were workarounds. You could still write a batch script and call it from PowerShell using cmd.
CRIO tips: Running Linux Commands As Root From LabVIEW
Neil Crossan was one of the people responsible for the forum posts around setting up a Virtual CRIO, which I previously posted about. He saw my post and sent me some more tips and tricks. I thought I would share some of them with you here. Many thanks to Neil
Advanced Datatypes with Python Node in LabVIEW
A recent LinkedIn post on using Python and LabVIEW got me thinking about passing more advanced datatypes between LabVIEW and Python. I have written about the Python node before, but I hadn’t really played with advanced datatypes before, so I thought I would play around and come up with
How to create a cRIO Virtual Machine
Just a week or two ago I stumbled upon a forum post that outlined how to create cRIO Virtual Machine. I’ve written a little bit about Virtual Machines before. Creating a virtual cRIO was pretty straightforward, but it required piecing together several responses in the thread, particularly since I
View the Git Reflog Graphically
While creating some content for my “Using Git Effectively” course, I discovered something new and amazingly useful. You may know about Git’s reflog and that it provides a chronological history of where your HEAD has been so that you can recover orphaned commits.
For some things though, it can
