whiteboard

What's your favorite shared whiteboard tool?

I like to draw -- well, scribble -- while working with other people; that works well in my office, where I have a huge whiteboard. But if the other people are on the other end of a phone line, it's not so good. I played with skrbl.com, which isn't bad (though I couldn't make it work with Safari or Chrome), but it's not ideal. What is?...

What is your "best friend" as a programmer?

What is the one "thing" (physical object, tool, software package, person, etc.) that is most indispensable to you as a programmer? I will get the ball rolling by stating that I have long considered a whiteboard to be a programmer's best friend. ...

How can I filter OSGi service visibility?

OSGi employs a service-oriented architecture: Bundles register service objects, that other bundles consume. Service publishing and binding is managed by the framework. This decouples service providers from service users completely (except for the need to agree on a service interface). Is there a way to limit (by configuration) what ser...

Flash Whiteboard: Actionscript 3

I'm looking for a flash Actionscript 3 tutorial on how to create a whiteboard application with flash media server 3.5. Please anybody have any ideas where I can start looking for this information? ...

Check for interactive whiteboard or projector

I want to check that there is an interactive whiteboard or projecttor attached to the system. Actually I would like to check it is not there. (To be able to make different license levels.) Is there any technique which could be sure? Platform: MS Windows XP/Vista, MS Visual C++ ...

On UML and whiteboarding

I try to produce correct UML when we have our design/whiteboarding sessions but my attempt at well structured UML ALWAYS degrades into uml-looking-but-understandable-to-those-in-the-room-with-a-little-explanation. But is this good enough for the consummate engineer? Do you always produce well-structured UML in your whiteboard sessions? W...

Flash/Java whiteboard web applet

Hello. I want to put a whiteboard on my website so users can draw something and then save the image to the server containing the drawing. Are you aware of any open source/free already made whiteboard application out there ? I also need the save image function. Thank you ! LE: I am also able to pay a small amount of money on it so name s...

Concurrent XML editing by AJAX.

Does there exist some framework for parallel editing XML-document on a web-page through AJAX? I need a shared whiteboard, where I and other people can draw and see that draw others in real time ("live" mode). Modern browsers support SVG, event-source and other useful things, and if such a framework exists, make such a board should simp...

Flex Whiteboard application - like Visio/MS Powerpoint

Hi all, I am creating an application that will allow users to model system information by allowing them to Drag and Drop objects from a Flex Tree into some sort of canvas/grid ie: like a whiteboard application eg: Visio/MS Powerpoint etc. The application requires the following functionality: Drag and drop items from a Tree to some sor...

How can I achieve a smooth painted curve for a white board app?

I'm building a simple white board app in ActionScript 3. Most white board or painting apps in ActionScript tend to use an interval, timer, mouseMove event, or enterFrame event to track the mouse position and paint lines or brushes in between the tracked points. What I'm trying to achieve is the nice smooth painted line that a program l...

Some tips for more effective white-boarding?

I am occasionally called upon impromptu to white-board (non-virtually) data flows, architecture diagrams etc., for both a technical and non-technical audience. Unfortunately my drawing skills (and print legibility) are terrible. How can I become more effective at doing this? I am looking for tips on standard symbols and connectors to us...

Problem with my whiteboard application

I have to develop a whiteboard application in which both the local user and the remote user should be able to draw simultaneously, is this possible? If possible then any logic? I have already developed a code but in which i am not able to do this, when the remote user starts drawing the shape which i am drawing is being replaced by his ...

Agile Whiteboard Software

Can anyone recommend decent software that could replace a physical whiteboard, as used in Agile development? I've had a look at http://www.brightgreenprojects.com/ but ideally we'd like something we could host ourselves. We use Jira for issue tracking, and are looking at integrating GreenHopper for project management at the moment. Th...

Creating collaborative whiteboard drawing application

I have my own drawing program in place, with a variety of "drawing tools" such as Pen, Eraser, Rectangle, Circle, Select, Text etc. It's made with Python and wxPython. Each tool mentioned above is a class, which all have polymorphic methods, such as left_down(), mouse_motion(), hit_test() etc. The program manages a list of all drawn sha...

Is there any opensource Flash+PHP multyuser whiteboard?

Is there any opensource Flash+PHP multyuser whiteboard? ...

How to capture discussions off white boards

Just like any other software development company, we use white boards a LOT. We use it for a wide range of activities — design discussions, project scheduling, brain storming, interviews etc. However, after we're done with the discussions, we end up spending a lot of time just copying the stuff for notes. Very often we run into two issu...

Shared Whiteboard with AS3. Code

I am building a shared whiteboard and I cannot get the shared whiteboard to be shared. I have successfully created a shared method and I see the shared object in the Admin Console that it is there and connected but can't see the drawing on a different browser. I am posting the entire actionscript code. Please help me if you can. Will be ...

App to document workflow for a non-trivial application

I am looking for an app (preferably open source) that will let us "white board" a non-trivial application. (If it were trivial we wouldn't need to white board it:) Any suggestions? ...

interview gone wrong: whiteboard folies

Back in March, I had my first interview for software engineering within the company I work as tech support. I didn't manage to get the job as I was shot off at the whiteboard coding challenge, which I found overwhelmingly scary (although my code was not 100% well, it wasn't totally bizarre - in my opinion, it only served to show I wasn't...

Whiteboard visualization of your it architecture

Hi, once in a while you have to draw a picture of your (planned) IT architecture/infrastructure on a whiteboard. Sometimes there are only IT people in the room, sometimes not. But anyhow, usually you just want to depict your IT systems or architecture more or less as a sketch and not in full detail. What I want to ask now is, which ste...