Building Web Applications with UML: Jim Conallen
Jim was responsible for some proposed extensions to UML that made it easier to model web applications. I implemented them in TogetherSoft's Control Center CASE tool (now owned by Borland) and found it pretty useful for storyboarding and modeling forms and data flow.
Fowler and Scott's "UML Distilled" is also worth reading.
Also, check out http://www.gentleware.com and download Poseidon 1.6.1 CE, a community edition UML tool.
Yes, I use that nowadays but haven't really 'gotten into it' yet. I was very used to Together - used that since early '97.
I'd have to comment that UML is pretty much useless unless accompanied by a considered approach and practice around modeling and object design, which is why the recommendation of the two design pattern books.
I'm not entirely sure you need to learn patterns first - most patterns are described in UML - but you'll much more out of UML if you learn some basic OOA/D (object oriented analysis and design).
I'm sure I'll have invited a roasting and flaming as a result of that little comment, but if you're not annoying someone, you're not really alive.
:)
Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/
"If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood
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