What tools do you use for designing software?
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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
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Software Zen:
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Hi, I use simple A3 drawing paper and a pen in combination with a plastic Flow Chart Symbols card. http://www.shoplet.com/office/limages2/STD977111_1_1_240.jpg[^]
With friendly greetings,:) Eric Goedhart Interbritt
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.
Software Zen:
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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.
Software Zen:
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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?
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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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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Real men do not design, they just code!
You may be right
I may be crazy
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PJ Arends wrote:
Real men do not design, they just code!
Real men do not code, they just drag-and-drop!
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Companies do not love you. Companies do not go out drinking with you. All they can do is pay you, and will fire you the second it is convenient. Unless you realize that simple reality you can never truly play the employment game well. You'll always be a victim of corporate America.
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Real men do not design, they just code!
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
That's right - the entire solution appears, full blown, in the programers mind, then it just takes a few hours to code in....if only....:sigh: The problem most often is poor requirements resulting in vague designs and applications that need to be tweaked.
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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)
Actually if you're smart enough, the best way to design software would be to encode it into the atoms of a crystal, along with the source code, comments GUI AND documentation. ;P
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Real men do not design, they just code!
You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!
Amen; // Selah!
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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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?
Went through a UML phase and tried lots of tools for that. Ended up in analysis paralysis. Went back to a word processor to write up what we are thinking with simple diagrams.
David Veeneman www.veeneman.com
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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?
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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. ;)
:josh: My WPF Blog[^] Companies do not love you. Companies do not go out drinking with you. All they can do is pay you, and will fire you the second it is convenient. Unless you realize that simple reality you can never truly play the employment game well. You'll always be a victim of corporate America.
-BONGOOkay, if all you "Real Men" are done designing your "perfect" mate to have your designer children do your designing for you, there are lots of us "Real" women who do design… First, I ask my users what they want/need, then yes I use pencil (or pen) and paper sometimes to get an idea of what they want. I also have THEM use the pencil and paper to show me an idea of what type of interface they want. I design web pages BTW, so once I have an idea what the user wants/needs, I use Visual Studio to easily design something in HTML to have a "Demo" to show them. There are lots of tools, all kidding aside, plain old pencil/pen/paper to get the initial idea still works best - just put the burden of what the user wants back on them - make THEM give you the initial design in pen or pencil... Just my .02 cents...
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That's right - the entire solution appears, full blown, in the programers mind, then it just takes a few hours to code in....if only....:sigh: The problem most often is poor requirements resulting in vague designs and applications that need to be tweaked.
pgorbas wrote:
That's right - the entire solution appears, full blown, in the programers mind, then it just takes a few hours to code
That's right - isn't all application development like that ? ;P
