+1 For a whiteboard, but how inferior do I feel next to Frank. Were not worthy...
-----Original Message----- From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 October 2005 05:25 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: database design I think the smartest thing I ever did was this... I have an office at home... just one of the bedrooms that is my sanctuary of geekdom... about 6 months ago we were walking through Home Depot... no, sorry, Lowes... we were looking for some sort of paneling to spruce the place up a bit. What I found is a panel that is made out of whiteboard material. So, picture an entire 15'x16' room (is ' or " feet? I never remember!) where every single wall is whiteboard, floor to ceiling. *THIS* has become *THE* way I do most of my design work. It's great... any time I have an idea I simply find a blank area of wall and have at it! I put in a chair rail around the entire room and I keep various colored markers on it. My only problem is keeping the kids from scribbling all over my work :) I don't have this at work (yet... talking to the building manager!) but I still find a giant whiteboard to be the best for database design, or any other kind of design work. Once I have a fairly solid idea where everything is going, I usually break out Visio. As a general-purpose diagramming tool I find it to be second to none. I can create just about any UML diagram, flowchart or whatever else in it. True, I can't spit code out of it, but I don't generally like letting tools write my code for me anyway. But, forget all that... go buy that paneling and pick a room! :) Frank Graham Reeds wrote: > Rafael Taboada wrote: > >> Hi folks. When u design a database... What soft do u use?? What's the >> best?? >> I use Embarcadero E/R... Is there any program better than embarcadero? >> >> -- >> Rafael Taboada >> Software Engineer >> >> Cell : +511-97753290 >> >> "No creo en el destino pues no me gusta tener la idea de controlar mi >> vida" >> > > I use pen, paper, and brain power:-) > > When the first round of requirements discussions are complete I then use > SQLyog (http://www.webyog.com/), MySQL Query Browser and MySQL > Workbench. DBDesigner 4 was the old MySQL Workbench which is getting > rewritten from the ground up. Haven't installed DBDesigner 4 before > since Workbench just about works for me (at least to visualise and check > I haven't missed any foreign keys). > > There is a Windoze and Mac OSX version of Workbench but no Linux yet. > > G. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com AIM: fzammetti Yahoo: fzammetti MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
