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Top seven UML cheatsheets

If you need a quick reference guide for the UML notation, check one of the following, IMHO, gret UML cheat sheets (in no particular order):

Why using UML? - Interesting column by Diomidis D. Spinellis

Diomidis Spinellis has just published the very interesting column UML Everywhere where he defends that all software engineers should adopt the same graphic standard notation for drawing all our diagrams and, more specifically, he proposed to use UML as such standard notation.

A new video for UMLtoDB - the online SQL code generation service

Now you can see a video of the UMLtoDB online generation service showing how easy is to generate your database schema from a simple UML model (only a class diagram is needed; forget about using stereotypes or ad hoc UML extensions).

See the video below:

Twitter accounts of UML, modeling and model-driven engineering tools

So far, I have detected the following "official" twitter accounts of UML, modeling or MDD tools (and by official I mean a twitter account of the tool itself, not a twitter account of a tool developer; I'm looking for twitter accounts that focus on announcing new releases of the tool, new features, application examples,... i.e. low-noise accounts), in no particular order:

PyUML - UML to Python Roundtrip Tool

PyUML is an open source Eclipse plug-in offering round trip engineering betwee UML and Python.

PyUML is based on the PyDev (Python IDE for Eclipse) and Eclipse UML Tools plugins

TopCoder UML - A tool for design competitions

TopCoder UML 1.2.5 has just been released .

TopCoder UML is "an easy to use, consistent modeling tool for use in Design and Development competitions" hosted at TopCoder , the world's largest community of competitive software developers.

Red Koda tool - Finish UML diagrams faster

One of the main complaints about graphical modeling notations is the poor usability of many of the modeling environments (argument used by proponents of textual modeling notations to claim that productivity with their tools is higher).

Up to 250$ for creating the UML class diagram of an open source project

First time I see an offer at freelance.com to reverse engineer a Java open source project.

Experts: UML is active, but the buzz is lost (on SD times)

Nice article on SD Times magazine where software experts comment on the fact that UML is still active but has lost part of the buzz that it previously had.

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