The Whiteboard

1:01 AM

Those two perspectives seem to be largely interchangeable as given. That said, this might do better on Programmers or even Software Quality Assurance & Testing, since it's less about specific code problems and more about testing methodology. — Nathan Tuggy 1 min ago

Thomas Owens

12:26 PM

What tools are good for making a block diagram? Just boxes with text in them (sometimes nested) and arrows with text labels between the boxes. Both Dia and Visio 2013 suck for this.

ratchet freak

12:40 PM

powerpoint?

Thomas Owens

Eh. I suppose I could. I tried Word and I found it clunky. Is PowerPoint 2010's drawing canvas better than Word 2010's drawing canvas?

I'm also checking out the Eclipse modeling tools. Maybe instead of a traditional block block diagram, I'll make a SysML Block Diagram.

ratchet freak

you can decorate the text boxes themselves with borders and such

Thomas Owens

I don't need fancy borders. PowerPoint doesn't let me easily add text to arrows, though, so that's not good.

I used to use Visio, but I got a new work computer. For some reason, we use Office 2010. Except for Visio, which is 2013. And Visio 2013 is awful.

I'll just make my diagrams later. I just don't know how making pictures is so damn hard.

user55340

1:46 PM

I don't need no fancy borders. I don't need no page effect. No sparkles or blinds. Hey! Manager you're gonna get decked!

user55340

All in all, it's just another slide on the wall ♫

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user55340

2:22 PM

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Q: I'm having trouble understanding these exercises wording

Exercise 1-20. Write a program detab that replaces tabs in the input with the proper number of blanks to space to the next tab stop. Assume a fixed set of tab stops, say every n columns. Should n be a variable or a symbolic parameter? Exercise 1-21. Write a program entab that replaces strings of...

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user55340

Delete votes please

user41796

@MichaelT it's gone

user41796

3:27 PM

Close votes, please. It's attracting low quality answers.

user41796

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Q: Combining two MVC frameworks in a project

Is it any good to combine two MVC frameworks together in a project? Is it a fairly common approach? I am thinking about using a serverside framework like CodeIgniter/Laravel and client side framework AngularJS in a predominantly CRUD based web project. I am a bit apprehensive about this idea. I t...

php javascript mvc angularjs laravel

user55340

@GlenH7 close voted on apr 2014. Given its age if a few of us were in that review, you might want to get a mod to help out with the closure.

user41796

That was my follow-up thought, yes

user55340

review/close/60572

user55340

So, only me and another closing on that review then. May not be as hard now as some other old closes.

Thomas Owens

4:08 PM

Requirements engineering is fun. I just wish I had better modeling tools at my disposal...

ratchet freak

@ThomasOwens you don't have a whiteboard?

Thomas Owens

@ratchetfreak I do. But at the end of the day, I need to share electronic models with people.

I'm hoping to get Rational Rhapsody at some point, since that's our current tool of choice.

ratchet freak

@ThomasOwens pic with your smartphone

Thomas Owens

@ratchetfreak I would need a company phone to do that.

Robert Harvey

4:37 PM

Why? Is is super sekrit whiteboard scribblings?

ratchet freak

@ThomasOwens no you just need a guy with a company phone, or request a company camera

amon

@GlenH7 This question doesn't seem that bad (except maybe for that “best practices” bit). The 1st response to low quality answers by low-rep users would typically be protection, which I have done for now. Why shouldn't I vote to leave the Q open?

user41796

@amon I got the impression they only cared about those two frameworks and not the broader or more general question

user41796

so that implied to me it's more of an ephemeral question that will lose value over time

amon

5:06 PM

Hmm. I tried editing it into shape. The current 1st answer is mostly conceptual so I think it's all fine. The other answers however …

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Q: How can I team up two MVC frameworks without having them fight each other?

I'm creating a CRUD-based web project, and am thinking about using a server side MVC framework (such as CodeIgniter or Laravel) in tandem with a client side MVC framework (such as AngularJS). Is this a fairly common approach? After all, it's clear that I need something on the server, and that doi...

php javascript mvc angularjs laravel

Jimmy Hoffa

@amon how? Easy: Don't.

user41796

@amon good edit

user41796

And I'm not too worried about invalidating some of those answers. They were meh to begin with

enderland

@GlenH7 you might have interest in this - chat.stackexchange.com/messages/20209801/history

user41796

@enderland I saw that, yes. Was going to comment but dealing with some cleanup over on Eng

enderland

5:10 PM

:)

working hard I see :)

Robert Harvey

A janitor's work is never done.

user41796

And there was another aspect that had to get cleaned up

Jimmy Hoffa

if you have an operation request, and you need to check if you can do it (do I have all the resources necessary right now ?) what would you call that? It's not really "Validation" because the request could be completely valid but not currently executable...

IsPossible? CanExecute?

user41796

@JimmyHoffa precondition check?

Jimmy Hoffa

@GlenH7 Condition! yes... this is a good term

I like it. Thanks

user41796

5:16 PM

Woohoo! I was finally useful today

Jimmy Hoffa

@GlenH7 yep, might as well go home now, it won't get any better than this

enderland

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