Is a picture always worth a thousand words?

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Architecture

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Artifacts & Tools,

Domain Specific Languages,

Modeling,

Programming

Is a picture always worth a thousand words?

In his recent article, “Why we write code and don’t just draw diagrams”, Dean Wampler argues that in software development the opposite is more often true.

•  By Niclas Nilsson on Nov 08, 2007,
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Reporting tool Ruport releases version 1.2

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Ruby

Topics

Office Business Applications,

Scripting

Ruport, the Ruby reporting tool, was just released in version 1.2. Meanwhile, the Ruport Book effort is coming along as well.

•  By Werner Schuster on Aug 30, 2007,
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Rails diagrams made easy with RailRoad

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Ruby

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Artifacts & Tools,

Ruby on Rails

Rails is occasionally criticized for lacking modeling tools, but the well-structured architecture of Rails applications makes those tools less necessary than with other tech. However, a simple class diagram can sometimes be worth a lot. RailRoad eases the generation of model and controller class diagrams.

•  By Sebastien Auvray on Apr 10, 2007,
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