The reliance on Google Accounts makes me think they want Google to buy this out.
It might be because they are using Google App Engine. I don't think any significant number of sites built on App Engine are trying to be Google acquisition bait.
I totally agree. I can remember so many times when writing documentation where a little image like this would make things much clearer, but I didn't bother because starting up Dia or the like would be too much hassle/work.
By my guess, it simply takes the first and last words of each sentence and treats them as nodes while everything inbetween is a directed edge. This is probably then passed into graphviz.
If you want to use a two word node you can surround the two words with quotes. It feels a little slow to respond but other than that it seems to work nicely.
Thanks for pointing that out. That was my only complaint - perhaps the author should put that on the page where you create your diagrams rather than on the "About" page.
Otherwise it's a neat little app. Love the "How I Met Your Mother" reference on the example diagram. Great show.
ah yes! I figured that out by just trying it out :)
But I wanted to have nothing next to those arrows. Just the boxes. so i tried just 2 words and it doesn't work. Seems like there has to be some word to refer to those arrows
Fascinating stuff. Although I can't come up with any uses right now, I'm sure it will come in handy. Are you using Graphviz?
This reminds of a time when I used a perl script to extract includes from my Objective-C app and then used Graphviz to visualize dependency graph in my app. I was going to make an XCode plugin out of it, but then gave up on the idea. Still, Graphviz rocks for this sort of stuff.
Doxygen can use Graphvis to generate dependency graphs.
http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/diagrams.html
You can also embed graphvis documentation (e.g. sequence diagrams) in the comments. Good stuff.
Yes, I was planning to play with doxygen instead of the perl script next time I get a free few hours. :-)
What I would really like to achieve is replace the file list in XCode with a dependency graph so that I can start thinking in terms of components - "where do I add this code next? where does it belong in my dependency diagram?"
It's a neat idea, but a bit more awareness about grammar would have been nice. I tried, "Mathematics requires hard work" and it gave me, "Mathematics --(requires hard)-> work".
Edit: Ah, I see that items can be grouped together using quotes.
given hacker news lacks a search feature, I don't think it's appropriate to point out dupes (unless it's some sort of breaking news that is already appearing in the top/new pages)
and searching google for "site:news.ycombinator.com 'diagrammr'" is not a reasonable expectation for users.
Sorry, I can't get over the incredible irony of a web application about English grammar not being spelled correctly. Someone has a good sense of humor.
