Mike Barwise

Boundless Brainpower lost its Java guru due to the pandemic, so we're now seeking an enthusiastic volunteer to help advance Skippity from the current prototype to a fully fledged application. The volunteer will be the primary coder but involvement will be much more interesting than that, embracing the full development cycle including collaboration on functional design, performance optimisation, testing and documentation. All English speakers with at least couple of years of Java software development...

I've recently been asked why Skippity doesn't include data analysis tools, like programs such as LabVIEW or VEE do. Well, this is intentional for a couple of good reasons. The first and most important (based on many years experience of conducting experiments) is that it's a bad idea to start analysing your data before it's all been acquired. Doing this practically never leads to correct interpretation of the data set as a whole, and at worst, a partial analysis can tempt one to modify the experiment...

Good news! The instrument close sequence issue on STOP has been fixed in Skippity V1.11, available now.

We have been alerted to a possible, although remote, hazard when the STOP statement or the stop selection of the PAUSE statement is invoked. It may also occur if a script auto-aborts due to time out of a query command for which the T flag is set. Regardless of the order in which instruments are opened within your script, under these conditions they close in an arbitrary sequence defined by the Java method currently used for close. If both power supplies and signal sources are being controlled, AND...

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Hi Klaus Ian (my developer) tells me you have to install the Ubuntu fonts on your development machine in order for Eclipse to find them. They're available in the lib directory of the source.

Hi Klaus re your font problem, I'm looking into this and will get back to you as soon as my developer has responded. Kind regards Mike