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

As you can probably see, ExpressionFlow got a major facelift today. Actually almost everything else except the content has been replaced. The most important changes are

• ExpressionFlow now has a logo and an identifiable visual appearance of its own
• The new theme being wider is more suitable for presenting images of visual code
• The blog software WordPress has been upgraded to the latest stable version

As this has been a major upgrade, there may be some problems still needing fixing. If you notice something wrong with the site, please inform me by posting a comment. If you are not able to post comments, you can email me. The address is firstname at the domain name.

As you may have noticed, ExpressionFlow has been under constant development trough-out its short history. The website evolved from simple single user blog into a blogging community of several LabVIEW professionals. There has been multiple changes in the look-and-feel of the site trying to make the content more informative and the site easier to use and navigate.

Now we’d like to hear your comments. How would you make ExpressionFlow even better in the future? What would you like to read about? Whose articles would you like to read? Do you find something to improve in the user interface? Is the length of the articles too long or too short? Share with us what do you think of ExpressionFlow and what improvements would you like to see in the future.

I’m happy to announce that ExpressionFlow has today evolved into a LabVIEW and visual object-oriented programming blog community as Anthony Lukindo becomes an ExpressionFlow author. The authors at ExpressionFlow are enthusiastic software developers and exceptional LabVIEW professionals and Anthony makes no exception. Anthony Lukindo is an owner of an NI Alliance Member Company, Mezintel Inc., located in Calgary. Anthony has received his Ph.D. in BioSystems Engineering and has strong experience in LabVIEW development. Anthony’s special expertise is on LabVIEW database interfacing on which Anthony is going to write his first ExpressionFlow articles. I’d very much like to welcome Anthony Lukindo as an ExpressionFlow author.

To better match the new community status of ExpressionFlow I’ve made some changes to the site content and look-and-feel. If you encounter any problems, don’t hesitate to inform me.

When I put up ExpressionFlow less than three months ago I didn’t expect high traffic rates right from the beginning. However, to my surprise there has been over 10000 pageviews during the last three months. That exceeds all my expectations. I’d like to thank everyone for supporting this site. If you already haven’t done so subscribe the feed. We are going to have a lot of interesting stuff coming up!