For over eigth years SVN was the cornerstone of the software engineering department at the company I work and it helped us to develop high quality medical simulation software. However as our product portfolio and out team grew, SVN started to show some weaknesses when resolving conflicts, hotfixing…

In a previous entry I wrote about my journey to find a suitable library for creating and interactive UI for viewing and modifying graphs which lead me to the Open Graph Drawing Framework to layout my graph for drawing with Qt. So here is the code for the prototype that I wrote:

Setting up
First we se…

I am a visual oriented person, so when working with graphs, trees, state engines or basically anything that can be represented as a network, I like to have an visual representation of it. In the past I usually exported such structures to a .dot file and processed it with Graphviz to a JPG or PNG. H…

Internal Quality is not negotiable

A quote by Martin Fowler (I think it's from Refactoring: improving the design of existing code), discussing the quality of software divides it into internal and external quality:

[quote]Internal quality is about the design of the software. This is purely the interes…