What tools do you use for designing software?
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Our last major project we used Enterprise Architect, our next one I'm going to use pencil and paper. We started with EA and after development started we found it was just too time consuming to keep the model up to date and in the end irrelevant. In the project there are about 300 objects but there is only really about 15 completely different *types* so it was a lot of work for little gain since all I really needed to know to code it was to take a prototype of each type of object then copy, paste and modify as appropriate. I also learned over the course of the project the value of being super consistent with naming and types of properties for each object. In the end it's best to identify rough groupings of objects by type and the properties they will have in common then go from there. Paper (well word processor or simple database) is just easier all around.
John Cardinal wrote:
we found it was just too time consuming to keep the model up to date
Ya, I typically don't bother with that. I've found that EA will do just about everything and then some. Trouble is I don't need to do most of that stuff. I use it for the basic modeling stages like use cases, interaction and business rule stuff. I use it again for class design and database design - just the basics though. It's great for working out interactions and dependencies. After that, I print out big pictures of the models, dump out what I need and start making it work. I rarely go back and update anything unless there's some weird design issues I need resolve. Cheers, Drew.
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When you already have your project figured out and you are at the stage where you need to start planning exactly how you are going to develop the software what tools do you find the most useful?
Humm, I got a Tablet PC using: Design: MindJet Mind Manager (Work with ink); OneNote; PowerPoint; Alias Sketch Book (One of the best Table PC application); Photoshop; Code: Enterprise Architect Visual Studio 2005. ....
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When you already have your project figured out and you are at the stage where you need to start planning exactly how you are going to develop the software what tools do you find the most useful?
At the risk of getting lynched - MS One Note 2007. It's a handy & straightforward way for me to organise ideas. In the end it all depends on what works for the way you work.
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
The really real men gnaw their designs into the hides taken from yesterdays game!
hah! that is "old school" REALLY new real men redesign their own DNA and pass the code on to their children to write the designs for them! ;P (this has all the earmarks of an endless argument) :laugh:
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
real men redesign their own DNA and pass the code on to their children to write the designs for them!
That's a cool one! Imagen if it was true ;P
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When you already have your project figured out and you are at the stage where you need to start planning exactly how you are going to develop the software what tools do you find the most useful?
Power of Mind... Yup, Lone Wolf McCode, that's my middle name.
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
The really real men gnaw their designs into the hides taken from yesterdays game!
hah! that is "old school" REALLY new real men redesign their own DNA and pass the code on to their children to write the designs for them! ;P (this has all the earmarks of an endless argument) :laugh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
But they'd have to get laid for that :confused:
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When you already have your project figured out and you are at the stage where you need to start planning exactly how you are going to develop the software what tools do you find the most useful?
Did any one noticed about Borland's new products especially towards project requirements and analysis? http://www.borland.com/us/solutions/requirements-definition-management/requirements-definition.html
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Did any one noticed about Borland's new products especially towards project requirements and analysis? http://www.borland.com/us/solutions/requirements-definition-management/requirements-definition.html
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Also an online drawing tool http://www.gliffy.com/
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Drew Stainton wrote:
Enterprise Architect.
heh. I still use the old Select SSADM and Enterprise, because they're so small and fast (SSADM fits on a floppy disk, for crying out loud! Anyone remember what they were?)
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What is this design that you speak of?
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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:
What is this design that you speak of?
It's the process that is usually followed when developers are two-thirds of the way through the build.
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When you already have your project figured out and you are at the stage where you need to start planning exactly how you are going to develop the software what tools do you find the most useful?
Visio, NUnit and lots of coffee. :)
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
real men redesign their own DNA and pass the code on to their children to write the designs for them!
That's a cool one! Imagen if it was true ;P
Thank you, M. Derbashi
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It is. It's the design of the universe.
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Oh man, that brings back memories. I have one of those that I used the first couple of years of college. I've even still got a couple of pads of 80-column card layout paper :-O.
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When you already have your project figured out and you are at the stage where you need to start planning exactly how you are going to develop the software what tools do you find the most useful?
Microsoft Word, Visio, and wishful thinking.
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But they'd have to get laid for that :confused:
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Linkify!|Fold With Us!peterchen wrote:
But they'd have to get laid for that
If you are redesigning your own DNA, hey, why not custom design your own mate first?
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peterchen wrote:
But they'd have to get laid for that
If you are redesigning your own DNA, hey, why not custom design your own mate first?
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
If you are redesigning your own DNA, hey, why not custom design your own mate first?
It would take at least 18 years before you could test drive your creation. ;)
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