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For really a long time, StarUML was the predominant tool for all my UML modelling needs.  Although it is based on UML v1.4, its modelling features are just brilliant. It has, however, one insuperable impediment: it is a dead open source project way beyond all resurrection boundaries. In deep secrecy I tried different other UML [...]

Remember my factory method design pattern example to compute the first name and last name from a full name? No? It’s really easy. You only have to provide a full name, like “John Doe” or “Doe, John” and the business logic computes the correct first name and last name. This time we are not interested [...]

To be honest with you: I am a Visionist. I really like Microsoft Visio. I do. I use it a lot, but from a functional perspective I use a very narrow portion in respect to different diagrams available. I almost always start with a Flowchart and extend it into something I like. Before I discovered [...]