Ideas/Visio
Oct. 20th, 2003 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI can always tell when I'm feeling better, because I have the urge to write. When I'm tired or ill nothing seems interesting enough to write about - it's all just the usual mess. When I'm feeling well and rested there are at least 20 things a day that form the core of an idea for something.
For instance, today Stephen had a small Visio problem. He got Greg to give him a quick hand with it, but I wandered past him a few minutes later and asked him what it was. This is because I've been using Visio on and off since almost the first version. It's a lovely program that allows you to produce and change charts incredibly easily, and while it still has the occasional niggle in laying things out, generally speaking it's a lovely piece of kit.
But it's one of those things that I've always felt I wasn't getting nearly enough out of. As far as I can tell you can use Visio to plan your databases and then create them automatically. You can use it to map out your network through auto-discovery. It can be used with add-ons to produce UML and help with program-design. All I use it for is to do flow-charts. Which it's great for, but I'm always left feeling that I'm using a rocket engine to cook sausages over, when it could be flying me to the moon.
For instance, today Stephen had a small Visio problem. He got Greg to give him a quick hand with it, but I wandered past him a few minutes later and asked him what it was. This is because I've been using Visio on and off since almost the first version. It's a lovely program that allows you to produce and change charts incredibly easily, and while it still has the occasional niggle in laying things out, generally speaking it's a lovely piece of kit.
But it's one of those things that I've always felt I wasn't getting nearly enough out of. As far as I can tell you can use Visio to plan your databases and then create them automatically. You can use it to map out your network through auto-discovery. It can be used with add-ons to produce UML and help with program-design. All I use it for is to do flow-charts. Which it's great for, but I'm always left feeling that I'm using a rocket engine to cook sausages over, when it could be flying me to the moon.
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Date: 2003-10-20 11:34 am (UTC)I don't like to write about how bad I'm feeling because I don't want to bore people. Am I wrong? Do I need to discuss these things more?
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Date: 2003-10-20 12:35 pm (UTC)_need_? Not for me to say. You should know by now whether talking about it helps you or not.
But boring people? The hell with that - it's your bloody journal, talk about whatever the hell you want. If people get bored, they can skip-read.