DB Designer 4

It has been a long time for me to look for a free (better if open source), user friendly and powerful ERD editor. Most of the foundings are trial version, limited version, non-open source, or not so user friendly.

But this week, it seems God wants to give me a gift - DB Designer 4, which is an open source, user friend and powerful DB designing tool. It support connections to various data sources, e.g. MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle and ODBC, execution of queries, reverse engineering on db design, forward engineering by applying the change in db design or generating SQL script. You're also allowed to export the diagram in to PNG or BMP, which would be useful for documentation while some other tool doesn't export any graphics...


DB Designer 4

StarUML

Half year ago, I found this tool very useful for system design and documentation. Six months later, I still think so. StarUML is a free CASE tool for OO Methodology, supporting UML, MDA, and both forward and backward engineering. The tool is planned to support round-trip engineering, which I'm interested in very much. I hope the tool can be continued with its development and we can see the power of round-trip engineering at the days.

StarUML

My recent thought

Recently, I thought of a system framework to allow us to develop software in the same way as how chemical factory works. It will be nice if I can implement the framework, and then show you the interesting idea. Hope it won't be too late for you.

Germany 2006 - The Goals

Germany 2006 - The Goals

Nothing in IT. It's just another one of my favourite - World Cup.

ASP .Net Web Page Optimization Checklist - The Code Project - ASP.NET

ASP .Net Web Page Optimization Checklist - The Code Project - ASP.NET

Do keep your application clean and efficient. Try this out. It works!

Ajax Patterns

Ajax Patterns

Have you started AJAX development? If so, how many of the patterns have you applied? You can find out a list of patterns of AJAX development, covering aspects like Performance and Usability. This page is useful to not only AJAX developers, but also for developers with no AJAX developemnt experience (for preparation).

Ten Essential Tools: Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now -- MSDN Magazine, December 2005

Ten Essential Tools: Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now -- MSDN Magazine, December 2005

I have just figure out a new article in MSDN magazine on add-ins for Visual Studio. Those add-ins cover areas like testing, documentation, Visual Studio usability, Web Services development and cache monitoring. I am not sure if these are useful, since I haven't read through it in detail yet. But the 10 Must-Have tools introduced by the author last year are quite helpful. Enjoy.

A web service as a framework for simplifying development and deployment of business functions - The Code Project - SOAP and XML

A web service as a framework for simplifying development and deployment of business functions - The Code Project - SOAP and XML

This is one of the best preparation material for starting Web Service development for systems in medium to large scale.