Citizen Bleys
08-01-2002, 03:52 AM
Hi. I'm (maybe, and slowly) planning on writing up some forum software, which duplicates the things I like about vBulletin and AcmlmBoard, and leaves out the crap I don't.
If my time at CompuCollege has taught me one thing, it's that design work before coding is absolutely, positively imperative. I sat down and did all my design work for my final project for E-Commerce II, and as a result, I finished 3 days before the deadline. The girl who sits next to me just jumped into code, and ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid she's not going to have a completed project. I also used documentation to write a simplistic web forum using active server pages in under four hours.
At school, I did all my design work using Micros~1 Visio. Not just because CompuCollege is a Micros~1 lackey and made us learn Active Server Pages instead of php, but because it's the best freakin' design tool I've ever seen, Micros~1 or no.
So I get home and decide to do my design work for the forums I want to write. No problem, right? I've got Visio. Only difference is, my version of Visio came with Visual Studio .NET, not Office 2000.
To my dismay, Visio .NET does NOT seem to support templates for designing Chen ERDs (Entity Relationship Diagarams--The basis of good database design, IMO).
So...can anybody else point me out to any good database design software, preferably something intended for drawing Chen ERDs?
I need Windows software. I had Linux on my laptop, but my laptop's BIOS went poon, and therefore I am once again Linux-less. (Which sucks since I want to design this software in PHP, but that's a whole new rant)
If my time at CompuCollege has taught me one thing, it's that design work before coding is absolutely, positively imperative. I sat down and did all my design work for my final project for E-Commerce II, and as a result, I finished 3 days before the deadline. The girl who sits next to me just jumped into code, and ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid she's not going to have a completed project. I also used documentation to write a simplistic web forum using active server pages in under four hours.
At school, I did all my design work using Micros~1 Visio. Not just because CompuCollege is a Micros~1 lackey and made us learn Active Server Pages instead of php, but because it's the best freakin' design tool I've ever seen, Micros~1 or no.
So I get home and decide to do my design work for the forums I want to write. No problem, right? I've got Visio. Only difference is, my version of Visio came with Visual Studio .NET, not Office 2000.
To my dismay, Visio .NET does NOT seem to support templates for designing Chen ERDs (Entity Relationship Diagarams--The basis of good database design, IMO).
So...can anybody else point me out to any good database design software, preferably something intended for drawing Chen ERDs?
I need Windows software. I had Linux on my laptop, but my laptop's BIOS went poon, and therefore I am once again Linux-less. (Which sucks since I want to design this software in PHP, but that's a whole new rant)