Comments on: Software that just isn’t right http://7fff.com/2007/12/01/software-that-just-isnt-right/ Fri, 07 May 2010 17:51:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: john http://7fff.com/2007/12/01/software-that-just-isnt-right/comment-page-1/#comment-72 john Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:55:51 +0000 http://7fff.com/2007/12/01/software-that-just-isnt-right/#comment-72 SQLEditor for the Mac looks like a great choice. I think if you're addicted to an ERD tool w/ Rails, you would just get the dump in schema.rb and skip the migrations . . . SQLEditor for the Mac looks like a great choice.

I think if you’re addicted to an ERD tool w/ Rails, you would just get the dump in schema.rb and skip the migrations . . .

]]> By: john http://7fff.com/2007/12/01/software-that-just-isnt-right/comment-page-1/#comment-71 john Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:49:25 +0000 http://7fff.com/2007/12/01/software-that-just-isnt-right/#comment-71 Oh silly me: Why would Acrobat be a 22MB download? DRM of course. Another reason to be sick of it. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2225849,00.asp Oh silly me: Why would Acrobat be a 22MB download? DRM of course. Another reason to be sick of it.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2225849,00.asp

]]> By: Max http://7fff.com/2007/12/01/software-that-just-isnt-right/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Max Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:09:00 +0000 http://7fff.com/2007/12/01/software-that-just-isnt-right/#comment-70 How about horrible "enterprisey" software engineering tools (and no, not acts_as_enterprisey) like ERWin which cost thousands of dollars per seat, and STILL have neuron-killing Windows 3.1 GUI widgets in them? (Ouch, even SQL*Plus for Windows still does, which is a good reason just to ssh to the Unix host running Oracle and use the commandline SQL*Plus there.) Oh, if you're getting an OS X machine, I am enjoying SQLEditor, which is a wicked cheap ERD tool. It's not without a couple of GUI bugs itself, but which creates extremely attrative, readable ERDs. (I can't really figure out how to use ERD tools for schema changes within the framework of Rails migrations, but I find visualizing relations to be extremely useful.) How about horrible “enterprisey” software engineering tools (and no, not acts_as_enterprisey) like ERWin which cost thousands of dollars per seat, and STILL have neuron-killing Windows 3.1 GUI widgets in them? (Ouch, even SQL*Plus for Windows still does, which is a good reason just to ssh to the Unix host running Oracle and use the commandline SQL*Plus there.) Oh, if you’re getting an OS X machine, I am enjoying SQLEditor, which is a wicked cheap ERD tool. It’s not without a couple of GUI bugs itself, but which creates extremely attrative, readable ERDs. (I can’t really figure out how to use ERD tools for schema changes within the framework of Rails migrations, but I find visualizing relations to be extremely useful.)

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