I’m very excited to announce, that to celebrate its first anniversary, ExpressionFlow opens discussion forums in affiliation with the world’s number one independent LabVIEW community LAVA (LabVIEW Advanced Virtual Architects). The new forums will provide ExpressionFlow readers a rich environment for lively discussions and a convenient channel for ExpressionFlow product related support requests.

All our readers can participate in discussions on ExpressionFlow forums. A free LAVA user account registration is required. Anyone with an existing LAVA user account can already participate in the discussions on the forums.

To navigate to the ExpressionFlow forums, click on the forums tab on the top menu just below the ExpressionFlow logo. I welcome all ExpressionFlow readers to participate in the lively discussions on the ExpressionFlow forums.

Exactly one year has passed since my first post to ExpressionFlow on March 18th, 2007. The first year has been very exciting. My first initial intention was to found a blog as a channel to publish my LabVIEW and visual programming related concepts and ideas. I started by introductory posts on then recently released LabVIEW object-oriented programming [1,2,3,4,5]. On May 2007 long time LabVIEW veteran Rolf Kalbermatter from CIT Engineering joined me as an author and posted an extremely interesting article series External code in LabVIEW [6,7,8]. On July the number authors grew by one as Anthony Lukindo from MezIntel joined the ExpressionFlow authors. Also he has posted very interesting articles on using MS SQL Server with LabVIEW [9,10] and on LabVIEW queued state-machine architecture [11]. On July I posted my first video blog post LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming Introductory Walktrough. The article comparing Erlang and LabVIEW concurrency models was a success and got a rather nice position on Reddit Programming. Inspired by this success ExpressionFlow recently released Active VI Toolkit that provides Erlang style concurrency model for LabVIEW developers.

I would like to thank all ExpressionFlow readers and authors for this tremendous year. I hope you have enjoyed the past year as much as I have. I wish you enjoyable moments with us for the forthcoming year.

Tomi Maila
Editor in Chief