I’ve been looking around the internet for advices on how to use XMind’s printing features without any success. XMind is a great platform-independent mindmapping and brainstroming tool, but when it comes to exporting your graph to some kind of vector-based file format, it seems you are left alone. There is an advanced feature in the [...]

Currently I’m working on my diploma thesis. I am developing a graphical dataflow editor which gives users the ability to visually connect filter components defined in a C++ framework. A generator finally creates the corresponding C++ code setting all components up. As development platform I have chosen the Eclipse/Java platform paired with these frameworks and [...]

At first glance it seemed easy like a breeze: I wanted to write an extension to Apple’s music player iTunes. It had to be capable of displaying and managing a set of effects running on the VisualCube device designed by my brother. A VisualCube is a 3D display connected via USB port. Currently another device [...]

Notationsmöglichkeiten für Model-To-Text-transformierbare Metamodelle von Schnittstellen eingebetteter Systeme.
Aus Kostengründen ebenso wie aus Gründen der Flexibilität wird die Funktionalität eingebetteter Systeme zu einem möglichst großen Teil in Software implementiert, die auf einer abstrakt gehaltenen Hardware lauffähig ist. Diese Art von Systemen besitzt auf höchster Abstraktionsebene eine natürliche Zerlegung in 2 Komponenten. Während die eine Komponente den [...]