Frank:
I agree with you in that a big whiteboard is the best place for
data design.
I had an old boss that used to tell me that if you can't do it
on paper, you can't possibly hope to tell the computer how to
do it.
I think people nowadays are too impatient to design things well.
They just start hacking stuff together and hope it will all work
at the end.
I think that is why there are so many crappy systems out there.
Regarding you room - I think I would need a padded room next
to it!
Neil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:25 PM
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
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