How thoughtful UI object selection can improve usability, reduce PLC programming, and streamline application development.

What ships fast in a demo rarely survives contact with real users, edge cases and the kind of low-effort probing that any ...

Functional Nanomaterials Group and Catalysis Research Center, Department of Chemistry, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85748 Garching, Germany ...

All sample codes do the same 1: creating a transient parameter, adding a Waveform Display, then vCar and the new parameter to it. If you are upgrading ATLAS 10 and plan to use the latest automation ...

Low-code development tools like Microsoft’s Power Platform are more than a way for users to build the apps they need when they need them. They’re a way to rapidly building code that’s needed urgently.

Most musicians have seen fractal images-those hauntingly beautiful pictures generated through mathematical equations. But how many people are aware that the same equations can be used to create ...

My first book was about Visual Basic 3, and I later updated it for two other product versions, VB 4 and VB 6. Here’s a look back at those early days. In 1994, I was asked by Gary Brent, a professor at ...

This article is one in an ongoing series about programmable logic controllers and their applications in broadcasting. You can read past articles online at radiomagonline.com. In the last article, we ...

The following illustration shows the sample mail app available in the app bar of the user's email in Outlook. When the user chooses the mail app in the app bar, the full user interface for the app ...

Despite its complexity, the software development process has gotten better over the years. “Mature” programmers remember how many things required manual intervention and hand-tuning back in the day.

It’s a 25-year-old principle of object-oriented (OO) design that you shouldn’t expose an object’s implementation to any other classes in the program. The program is unnecessarily difficult to maintain ...