Create and share diagrams by writing sentences

Re:Create and share diagrams by writing sentences by fnid on Thursday August 27, 2009 @11:36AM (#789378)

Anyone know of anything like this for data models? I'd love to build something like:

  Customers have a name, address, and phone
  customers have many orders
  orders have many items
  items have a name, description and price

Something like that.

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Re:Create and share diagrams by writing sentences by ssn on Thursday August 27, 2009 @01:06PM (#789552)

Maybe http://yuml.me will help you.

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Re:Create and share diagrams by writing sentences by fnid on Thursday August 27, 2009 @01:48PM (#789638)

yuml.me is exactly what I'm looking for. Very nice. Thank you.

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Re:Create and share diagrams by writing sentences by bockris on Thursday August 27, 2009 @11:47AM (#789396)

If you lock your vocabulary down e.g.

  entity 'have a' comma-sep-attr-list
  entity 'have many' referenced-entity

etc and create dot files for Graphviz this would be very easy.

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Re:Create and share diagrams by writing sentences by fnid on Thursday August 27, 2009 @01:49PM (#789642)

That's an excellent program. I downloaded it per your suggestion, but I really wanted a web based version. Thank you though, I will find many uses for this program as well.

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Re:Create and share diagrams by writing sentences by wooby on Thursday August 27, 2009 @04:11PM (#789931)

Dot itself is also a command line tool, so it's easy to make documents and presentations with TeX that have text-format diagrams in the dot language. You can also do things like generate call graphs for programs, or parse log files into sequence diagrams by parsing input somehow and generating dot files.

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Re:Create and share diagrams by writing sentences by diN0bot on Thursday August 27, 2009 @03:14PM (#789823)

i have a script that reads django models.py files and constructs OmniGraffle object models. hmm...could be neat to go the other way since i usually make the diagrams first...i wrote the script because once the main idea is figured out then i'll make lots of iterative changes in the code and not want to update the diagram so carefully..

i'm still working out the details. but i'll post here as soon as that's all good :-) not sure if anyone else is interested, i guess.

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