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uml drawing tools

I love this awesome tool web sequence diagrams for creating sequence diagrams was introduced to me by a colleague about 6 months ago and loved it within an hour so easy to create and edit diagrams, just type in text and see the diagram appear, like magic! fast enough to use in design collaborations with colleagues if you need examples, then click examples on left and it will add that text yuml.me looks very useful too, especially for diagrams other than sequence diagrams their use case drawing tool seems feature rich likewise for class view (inheritence, cardinality etc.) I've used gliffy.com  quite a bit but I prefer web sequence diagrams because faster, besides gliffy are beginning to charge now plantuml looks rich and comes recommended by an eclipse user. I have not tried myself and it does require an install. Thankfully theres other good free ones out there. I used TogetherJ many moons ago and it looks like thats now provided by Borland (they still around?) a

angularjs ui-router query string parameter support

angularjs ui-router is pretty cool, we use it in our app now but have not yet used query string parameters (e.g. ?p1=age&p2=height). But now we need to. we're now adding a feature which is basically a report generator and its a good use case for query string parameters once on the page then you're basically in that ui-router "state" users can select filters etc. from dropdowns which will reload the data but should not destroy/recreate any controllers or ui widgets (we stay on the page and do not state transition) yet we do want to update the url for deep links and back button support we don't know the complete list of possible filter choices, but know it should be data driven and will change by report  urls to support this report feature are will be something like thus /reports  /reports/sales  /reports/sales?region=west&time=weeks so we need to use query string parameters Below are some of the things I discovered with ui-router query strin