Is there any good free tool for the mac, to draw UML and object diagrams?
Just need it for a hand full of diagrams. Any recommendations? ...
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What's the best type of diagram to symbolize objects and values of their instance variables?
I want to visualize an situation with a few different objects, their relations and the values of their instance variables. Any idea which diagram type fits best for that? ...
How must an object diagram look like?
I searched the web, but I find a bunch of very different diagrams. Most of them don't even look like object diagrams. They have no object's value. I want to know how I must draw an object diagram in such a way, that my prof won't tell me it's absolutely wrong. Any good tutorial link is highly appreciated! ...
Where are the best graphViz tutorials to learn graphViz fast?
Duplicate of this question ? I've got this link. Maybe I'll do my own tutorial on that, because I find it hard to learn. The documentation lacks examples. ...
How do you make a radial diagram?
Does anyone know how to create a radial diagram in .net, java, ruby, php or python? I don't care which. I have asked before for a library and searched everywhere. I cannot find anything. If I am going to build my own I thought I'd check and see if anyone knew of a resource. The preference is to display it in a web page, if possible....
Simple way to create an ERD for a database design review.
I am working on a new application that uses a jet (MS Access) database. I have built the database using FluentNHibernate's AutoMapping feature from my C# objects. I need to present this database for an on-line WebEx design review on Tuesday and am looking for a tool to create ERD's for my database that I can group onto slides. The dia...
Documenting Web Application Flow / Iteraction
What artifacts / diagrams do use to document the flow of a web application taking into account links between static pages and how dynamic view components (html forms, JSP, Ajax, etc) interact with server-side components (Servlets, Struts actions, etc)? Do use UML diagrams? ...
Functional programming - standard symbols, diagrams, etc
I have a problem, which I believe to be best solved through a functional style of programming. Coming from a very imperative background, I am used to program design involving class diagrams/descriptions, communication diagrams, state diagrams etc. These diagrams however, all imply, or are used to describe, the state of a system and the ...
How generate diagram from SQL DDL?
For example DbVisualizer can be used to connect to a DB and create nice diagram out of existing tables and their relations. But in this specific case I do not have a live database but I have bunch of create table and alter statements. Is there any tool to generate similar diagrams out of SQL DDL? ...
application architecture draw
Yop I would like to know what guys are using to make diagram of your application/service architecture ? I would like to make diagrams representing the different layer of the whole application and for some parts go deeper (class level) Visio is it a good deal for this? thx in advance. ...
Algorithm for generating a software stack diagram
I'm looking for ideas for an algorithm that generates a diagram similar to the following, given a set of acyclic dependencies (I'm using this image to show that the dependencies can be complex) ...
Recommendation for a good entity relationship diagram building tool for occasional usage ?
Freeware is a plus. Could you also describe with one sentence why it should be good enough for occasional usage? Edit: You might check this cool link , providing more info about entity relationship diagrams and tools Edit: For the chosen answer couple of tips - click on entity even it looks like circle and type the name and Enter - it...
Proper way to document or diagram custom event models in the DOM
Imagine you have a bunch of components and subcomponents in your web application. You want to keep track of how all the custom events you added behave. Are there established ways to diagram or document these behaviors? Here are some things the documentation should show: The actual nesting of relevant DOM elements of the various compon...
UML dataflow diagram strategies for an example structure
What would be the best strategies to describe the following: 1) class A created instances of classes B and C 2) class B being able to communicate to class D through a pointer in class B to a specific member in class D Thanks in advance for the suggestions, as I don't know the proper term to describe them in order to search for more inf...
Good tool for diagraming process and system components
I'm currently writing some documentation for our product. Most of the docs are just text based - but in some cases I'd like to add a diagram to help first time users visualize the process from a general perspective. Microsoft docs and articles have these all over. I don't want to use a class diagram as the components are more conceptual ...
Interpreting an ERD
What's the difference between the CategorySection-Category relationship and the CategorySection-Categorization relationship? CategorySection-Category has an arrowhead and a black dot. CategorySection-Categorization has an arrowhead on both ends. Both are supposed to be "has many" relationships but this diagram uses a different symbol...
In an ERD what makes an entity "optional" vs "required"?
As I understand it, the white dot indicates "optional" while the black dot means "required". If so, a Category is required while a Classified is optional. But what does that actually mean in the database - to say that a Category is required and a Classified is optional? ...
Does an ERD prescribe an implementation approach?
One of the things that confuses me about ERDs is whether they make any prescriptions about how their relationships should be implemented technologically. In the diagram below I'm not sure if the diagram requires these relationships to be implemented at the database level or at the application level. Is it making any technological presc...
Yet Another diagram / modeling software suggestion request.
I'm currently looking for diagramming software that allows me to quickly map stuff and jot down concepts such as a filesystem directories represented by nested boxes containing icons (representing files.) Off course the simplest solution of all would be to just use paper and pencil, but unfortunately i have such poor motor skills that a...
Easiest algorithm of Voronoi diagram to implement?
Hi, What are the easy algorithms to implement Voronoi diagram? I couldn't find any algorithm specially in pseudo form. Please share some links of Voronoi diagram algorithm, tutorial etc. Thanks in advance. ...