DICOMLIB

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

If, by a bizarre coincidence, you are looking for a top-quality, open source DICOM implementation in C++, along with bindings for Python, then you could do far worse than peruse the most excellent dicomlib website. I created this site last month, to support the library of the same name that I wrote during my time at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. I’ve been learning that developing good software is more than just a technological challenge; it’s a social one as well. Pulling together contributors and users, figuring out what people actually want, managing timelines, synchronizing competing needs and simply getting the word out that the software exists are all important tasks. While I like nothing better than getting stuck into the nitty-gritty of debugging a complex multi-threading problem, it’s been a new experience for me to tackle the community-building side of software development.

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