I feel that my professional exposure has been biased towards Visio, by the choice of IT managers and project managers. I've worked only in Microsoft solution centric shops where MS Office was the standard. Are there any other professional shops out there using other tools? ...
I want to write a GUI seating application that allows users to draw and annotate simple "maps" of seating areas. The end result would probably look something a little like Visio, but specifically for manipulating my "seating" data model rather than producing files. In Java-land, there's the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) -- is there...
What kind of software do you use to draw diagram for your presentation and report? Suppose you want to draw a diagram to illustrate the TCP hand shake. I use visio, but the outcome is too plain. Is there any free software out there can draw diagrams better? Which can also have some 3D shapes or shadows? ...
Hi All, I was wondering if there are any automated tools for displaying a database schema diagrammatically? My artistic side fails me and it would be nice to open my discussion with a diagram which doesn't scream ugly. Many thanks, Gav ...
I have been asked to formalize the architecture of our front-end JSF code and beans. My first thoughts were that this would be just like any other class architecture. Fire up visio, make my UML diagrams, and that's that. However, there is no way that I can think of to express things such as bean scope, page navigation, the way differe...
As i described, I want program give me more helpful diagram for example : MS SQL Server Diagram didn't give you a good design for relations so if you have many relations in the same table then the diagram just draw many lines to your table and didn't set the lines to specific column that would confuse you if you have many tables and co...
When I create a new diagram and "Update model from database", the StoreGeneratedPattern attribute gets added to some primary key properties, but not all of them. What criteria does the designer use to decide whether to add this or not? ...
I've seen some books and articles have some really pretty looking graphs of git branches and commits. Is there any tool that can make high-quality printable images of git history? ...
In a system architecture diagram, just like a "cloud" represents the internet, what general symbol would you use to depict a distributed cache e.g. Coherence or JBoss? ...
While debugging an issue with our system, I have discovered a thread contention that is causing a bottleneck. I need to explain the phenomenon to other people involved in handling this issue. Some of them are not from development team (yet, they are reasonably technical). So what type of diagrams can be used to depict threading issues...
Is there any free program out there that can parse a collection of VHDL files and build a block diagram from them? Edit I'm looking more for a program that will build a block diagram image to go along with the documentation for the hierarchy, similar to the way javadoc builds a class diagram after parsing the documentation for a series...
I need to create a industrial monitoring application that shows the operator a SCADA diagram, similar to this What toolkits are available to do this and what experience have people have with them? I already know of the ilog tookit but have no experience of it. Edit: I don't need software to control the hardware itself, I just need ...
Hi, Has anyone got any great ideas or experience around easily producing Branch Diagrams against TFS? Thanks in advance for your help Andy ...
As a software developer, I often need to quickly capture notes about business rule changes or I might want to quickly lay out a diagram. What software tools do you use and personally recommend for such a task? Right now I capture written notes or diagram on paper. And sometimes I though written notes in a Word document. But quick dia...
Please suggest tools for creating Class Diagrams with the following criteria: It should be platform-independent because I use Linux and the file is expected to be edited by other members of the team using Windows/Mac Free, because there no such free tool, we should create one It would also be nice if you can include a screenshot of the...
Is there any Diagramming component that is freely available for a C# project? If possible one that allows you to click and edit the diagram nodes. ...
I have had difficulties in finding a tool by which I could make a similar diagram as the following where aloitussivu = homepage yritysinfo = about yleiskuva = general tunnussivu = user rekisteröintisivu = register ... I use VP-UML. However, I have not managed to create such a diagram by it. The diagram looks like Activity diagram,...
Hi Guys, are there any good free native UML modelling tools for OS/X that allow you to quickly whip up simple UML diagrams. I know about ArgoUML, great for a java app (its usable), but certainly painful to use under OS/X wit the number of bugs and issues it has. ...
I'm trying to present two types of data as diagrams in my PHP based web application: cake diagram: showing different types of data for the current user, i.e. incidents and changes received by the user 2D bar diagram: showing basically the same data, but for several users (i.e. incidents for user a, user b and user c; changes for a, b, ...
In a flowchart or process diagram, what is the symbol for a FIFO queue? ...