Recent content by grooke

I have since tried Sun Studio 8 - Seems to be very good. This is free. I have since bought Visual Paradigm. I like it. Not too expensive. Some promising Analysis tools that could be brilliant if they worked on them a bit. Gil

Business Rule can fit in 7 places in the UML 'Spec' 1) In the middle, you have the rules that say that people (actors) want to do some specific thing -A Use Case. 2) Any rules that are more global than that go into the 'Non-functional Spec'. 3) Any rules that are 'smaller' than the use case...

Excellent. Gil

I had problems with an Indian rumbling voice recently. I am hard of hearing and the deep Indian rumbles are extremely difficult, how ever well they speak. In the end, I insisted that he redirect the call to the UK. The thick Irish brogue was impossible! ;-) Gil

You criticise the grammar in the original quote, but what about this sentence? How should it read? "Do you have an amusing office email to share? " or "Do you have any amusing office emails to share? " Gil

I have just reminded myself about Jira. It is easy to use. In is not as pretty as I think it could be. You can incorporate it for non-web use' It is worth signing on for an account at the web site of the previous comment. It is best to start on...

I have been away from this forum for some time, doing other things. One of these is to start writing down my concepts for Agile Analysis. These techniques span all phases in the life cycle of an xUP-like development. This is the first of 4 sections of my Web site, it just covers the Inception...

There is a program called 'Tackit' which is used for computer maintenance. It looks appealing and should not be too much hastle to see what it does. I'm not sure whether this is wbe based. Other bug fixing software may provide what you want. Rational Clearquest. May NOT be web based...

Actually Not. He put the names on the classes and that made people read the class diagrams. I agree with him. We put use case descriptions and lots of other things belonging to UML outside the UML tool. This has two problems: 1. You are then maintaining two sets of the same information. (High...

Now you have introduced me to a new term? I favour domain driven approaches, and I have never seen the real need for changing the name of something just to be different. So yes it is. I watched a huge project for a web site, Enjoy England', collating all the UK tourists sites under one web...

FreeMind just allows you to define tree structured static logic. You can edit values, just as part of the text. You can represent networks instead of trees using cross links, but they gey a bit messy. All of us have some Eureka moment, when something that was puzzling us, so in a sense we...

I have one thought here. To solve that problem you need inspiration and persperation. If you rely on software for that you will be disappointed. To get inspirations, you may need some tool to help your mind around all the binary possibilities. I use FreeMind (its free)...

I have come to this a bit late, but am concerned about some of the answers. They are all good, but they are pushing the concepts well beyond the question. The question was whether DeanConsulting has approached it correctly. My answeris that they have done an almost perfect job. 9.8/10 for the...

Algorithm = A process or set of rules for calculation or problem-solving, esp. in computing." Concise Oxford Dictionary. I have NEVER heard it used for some specific form of computing or methodology. I suspect it is just a general description. They are suggesting a solution that shows the steps...

Sorry. I misread It sounds as though you are making the display class do the work. As a result I said which you somehow read as which is the opposite of what I said. Gil