NIWeek 2012: Secret Sauce / Tools to Make You a Better LabVIEW Developer

Justin GoeresSenior Engineer & Product Marketing ManagerJKI

PUSHING THE LIMITS OF LABVIEW

Secret Sauce: Tools to Make You a Better LabVIEW Developer

1. Vote with your feet.

2. Please turn on your smartphones.


Rules

I’m watching @JustinGoeres give away @JKISoftware’s secrets at #niweek!

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PUSHING THE LIMITS OF LABVIEW3


I Looked This Up...

“How much of your time is spent actually coding?” > 80% – “Senior Developer Rockstar Ninja” 70% – “Project Engineer” 35% – “Group Leader” 20% – “Lead Java Developer” 0-10% – “Lead Architect” “I only code when I know exactly what to code.”

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What’s Going On Here?

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There’s More to Software Than Code

Business-critical Non-development Tasks Bug Tracking File & Document Sharing Building & Releasing Software Task Management Code Reuse / System Deployment & Configuration Screenshots, Recordings, & Documentation Communication, Meetings, Remote Support

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“Your time is worth $1000 an hour, and you need to act accordingly.”

– Jason Cohen, asmartbear.com

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There’s More to Software Than Code


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JKI’s Secret Sauces


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Bug Tracking

FogBugz – fogbugz.com

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The Fog Creek Bug Tracker Manifesto: Your bug tracker shall not complicate your life. Your bug tracker shall not waste your time. Your bug tracker shall not keep secrets from you. Your bug tracker shall help you make better software.

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Bug Tracking

FogBugz – fogbugz.com Lightweight, super-easy workflow. TSVN & Mercurial integration Agile Project Management Smart estimation, burn-down charts, etc.

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Bug Tracking

FogBugz – fogbugz.com Plugins FogBugz screenshot tool SnagIt integration Dozens of others

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Bug Tracking & Source Code Control

Kiln – fogcreek.com/kiln Mercurial made easy Distributed Version Control (DVCS) Easy branching & merging

API hooks Connect Kiln to almost any web application

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Business-critical Non-development Tasks Bug Tracking

File & Document Sharing Building & Releasing Software Task Management Code Reuse / System Deployment & Configuration Screenshots, Recordings, & Documentation Communication, Meetings, Remote Support

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File & Document Sharing

Box – box.com Like Dropbox for businesses Share files with partners, clients, vendors Fine-grained permission control Auto-expiring download links Daily activity reports File versioning & comments Desktop syncing (like Dropbox)

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Business-critical Non-development Tasks Bug Tracking File & Document Sharing

Building & Releasing Software Task Management Code Reuse / System Deployment & Configuration Screenshots, Recordings, & Documentation Communication, Meetings, Remote Support

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Building & Releasing Software

Jenkins – jenkins-ci.org Free & open source Native builds for lots of platforms Active community, tons of plugins

SCC integration Unit testing automation Notifications & reporting

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Business-critical Non-development Tasks Bug Tracking File & Document Sharing Building & Releasing Software

Task Management Code Reuse / System Deployment & Configuration Screenshots, Recordings, & Documentation Communication, Meetings, Remote Support

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Task Management

Trello – trello.com “Super-powered whiteboard” “Your entire project, in a single glance.”

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Business-critical Non-development Tasks Bug Tracking File & Document Sharing Building & Releasing Software Task Management

Code Reuse / System Deployment & Configuration

Screenshots, Recordings, & Documentation CommunicationCommunication, Meetings, Remote

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Code Reuse, System Deployment & Configuration

VI Package Manager – jki.net/vipm Reuse code management Project configuration management (VIPC files) System deployment & configuration

VIPM API (new in VIPM 2012!)

VIPM 2012 is included on the LabVIEW 2012 DVD

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Business-critical Non-development Tasks Bug Tracking File & Document Sharing Building & Releasing Software Task Management Code Reuse / System Deployment & Configuration

Screenshots, Recordings, & Documentation Communication, Meetings, Remote Support

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Screenshots, Recording, Documentation

SnagIt – snagit.com Best screenshot annotation tool ever.

Camtasia – camtasia.com Full-featured screen recorder Non-destructive editing

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Communication, Meetings, Remote Support

Skype – skype.comJoin.me – join.meTeamViewer – teamviewer.comGoToMeeting – gotomeeting.com

Screen sharing with customers and each other. Remote meetings: multiple webcams, call-in &

computer audio, presentation support. Text & voice chat with video.

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Questions? Discussion!

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Thanks for coming!

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