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One of my clients have asked me to give UI mockups of all pages of my web application...
I found Balsamiq which seems to be a good one... Any other tools....
What would you use for drawing UI mockups?
Check out Pencil. It can run as a Firefox addon or standalone application.
From its homepage:
The Pencil Project's unique mission is
to build a free and opensource tool
for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
SketchFlow?
Pencil and paper, scanned if digital is needed.
Online tool http://gomockingbird.com/
WireframeSketcher is a tool that helps quickly create wireframes, mockups and prototypes for desktop, web and mobile applications. It comes both as a standalone version and as a plug-in for Eclipse IDEs. It has some distinctive features like storyboards, components, linking and vector PDF export. Among supported IDEs are are Aptana, Flash Builder, Zend Studio and Rational Application Developer.
(source: wireframesketcher.com)
ForeUI is awesome.
Denim is interesting and can even run the prototyped webapp with the "hand-drawn" UIs.
(Though I'd also really suggest Balsimiq as the one you should use.)
Edraw MAX 5 is also a good candidate. Checkout few mockups i made with it.
http://www.mixedwaves.com/2010/03/wireframe-samples-for-poll
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Currently 2 person programming team, with a project manager whom doesn't have any experience in Project management. So really need something very simple, that will hold the hand of a project manager.
Far more important than features is ease of use. I could deal with a gloried ToDo list - but I would like milestones.
Thanks
BaseCamp? Good enough for a two-person team to keep track of todos, milestones, and some basic communication.
Any software you select now will just add interference to the process of learning to be a project manager. For such a small team pencil and paper, even a whiteboard and pens, will be sufficient. When you (or the PM) have learned the basics of project management, then is the time to start thinking about software support.
If pencil and paper is too simple, try a word processor and spreadsheet.
Look at Project kaiser. Free for 5 users, there are milestones, issues on unlimited hierarchy and more.
Try this: http://www.openproj.org/openproj
Free and can read MS project as well.
For novice project managers RationalPlan is the best choice. The embedded project guide will help the project manager step by step to plan and control the projects. More helpful would be to start learning the basics in project management and map those on the application.
This is the way to evolve but you can also keep things very simple by using some spreadsheets or To Do list software.
For a simple, no-nonsense, agile project management solution, I highly recommend Pivotal Tracker. Check out the intro video on the Learn More page to get a feel for how the tool works.
PS - Send your project manager my best wishes! :)
SmartSheet
have used and can recommend,
milestones and any other users are free, can share limited views with clients etc
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I have a completed Cocoa application and would like to sell it. I have found many services that will sell your application, but not many that will also handle activation. Are there any services that will integrate activation into the installation file or are there any services that are easy to integrate (hopefully will take at max an hour to implement)? For example, SoftwareKey looks good, but it is only for Windows.
Thanks for your help in advance.
If you're talking about in-application purchase of Mac-based Cocoa applications, there's Golden % Braeburn and the new open source Cocoa Boutique. Kagi and eSellerate are also popular services for paying to activate Mac software.
I am not aware of a service that does both, but there are options such as the AcquaticPrime framework to take care of the licensing part. This question on StackOverflow may be helpful for you.
If you can write your own key generator then e-junkie is a cheap and easy to use system that can process payments and issue codes. With a bit of creativity you can even use a spreadsheet to generate pre-generated codes, then it's just writing the activation code in Cocoa. Took me no more than a couple of hours.
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As a learning exercise I'm building a basic scientific computation environment based on .NET. I'd like the GUI of the app to be much like matlab, in that I have an interactive window, an objects window and the facility to spawn visualisation windows. Intellisense in my command window would be very nice. It seems visual studio itself could almost be used in this manner, is this a viable option? Creating the visualisations within the VS environment seems like the only hurdle. What could I do here?
Eclipse is also an option I suppose but I'd prefer to stay totally with .NET if possible.
Any other suggestions?
You could take a look at MonoDevelop here to provide some help. It is open-source and one of the nicer IDEs.
You could also build something based on GEdit, as it is very pluggable.
Those are the two tools, plus the CLI that I use for .NET development, but I am entirely on Linux/Unix using the Mono tools.
Hope that helps!
I've just discovered VSlab. Its specific to F#, however its a good demonstration of what I would like to be able to do with my own DSL in terms of visualisation and an interactive editor.
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I'm currently looking for good (and free if possible) Web RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool or Visual Ajax IDE, something like Morfik or Delphi for PHP with more usual deployment method (both create standalone application or web server modules). What i mean was IDE that support drag-n-drop component for building web application and the result was standard .(x)html & .js (and maybe .php) files so i can upload it to my favorite web host right away.
I already inspecting VisualWebGui, Visual Ajax Studio, Visual Ajax Builder but all have same method as above for deployment (some using Java platform).
I then take a look Sigma Visual, checked the demo, but it was too slow...
Maybe better to wait Delphi for PHP with EXTJS as their GUI package
I have found this : VisualJS.NET (very interesting and promising)
Why you dont just use Visual Studio Web Developer ?
or Eclipse
Have a good look at ChrisSoftEng.co.uk. Quite a lot of free stuff - RAD for the Web - Delphi PHP, Delphi VCL for Web, GO-Global for Windows on EC2. And Xajax and SVG as well as Silverlight and Java Web Start. This is a site for co-working projects without fees.
I use AlphaFive, check their website for support and services.
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I'd like to build a pretty simple plug-in for Visual Studio, but I don't really know how this has to be done. Is this doable in (non-managed) C++?
I'd like to know what resources you'd recommend me.
DevExpress has a free plug-in called DXCore which provides some nice abstractions upon which to then build other plug-ins...you might look into that.
Do you really want to do it in unmanaged code? DevExpress has a nice free library to develop visual studio plugins but it's managed. This is what they use to develop Refactor and coderush
http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/DXCore/
It seems the underlying API is kind of messy. As far as I know this is the easiest way.
I've never tried, so I don't know about doing it in C++, but this website has loads of information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx/default.aspx
A good place to start would be this tutorial:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/mgold/AddIns11292005015631AM/AddIns.aspx
The DXCore from DevExpress is a wonderful library for basing all sorts of plugins. Feel free to drop by the IDE Tools Forums and more specifically the DXCore plugin forum and ask for any help you might need. :)
I'm not so sure about unmanaged C++ but I know for certain that the DXCore supports Plugin creation in any managed language.
Found this MSDN tutorial: Creating Add-ins Using Visual C++. Thanks Matt.