Hi all

This one is for all those times you needed your Regular Expression Tool but you were using someone else’s computer or whatever and did not have it installed. Now you have this little online Silverlight Tool to help you with your regular expressions.

To use this tool do the following:

After I published a post about SDEdit which is a free desktop sequence diagram editor, I received a mail from Steve Hanov who wanted to introduce me with a very impressive alternative to SDEdit. Steve has created a web service that creates renditions of sequence diagrams, it is completely online and does not require a download. Well, after reviewing this tool, I decided to let Dev102 readers know about it too, it is really great.

Like SDEdit, the UML sequence diagrams are created from a textual syntax and not by drawing objects and lines. Lets take a look at the following example:

Alice->Bob: Authentication Request
note right of Bob: Bob thinks about it.
Bob-->Alice: Authentication Response

You can notice that the syntax is easy and if you ask from the tool to draw it, this is what you get:

Adobe, creator of the desktop graphic editor Photoshop, launched a new online and free edition of Photoshop Express (Beta). Here is a quote from a post Create your Logos, Buttons and Icons for Free that was published a few weeks ago in this blog: “There are many graphic editor programs in the market. Whether those [...]