I'm in software engineering from a science background and I really feel the lack of being able to think about my code and systems in something as structured as the OP banged out.
Filling the Void of a Physical Whiteboard
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#22Any good tutorials or toy projects to help in learning plantUML. I'm in software engineering from a science background and I really feel the lack of being able to think about my code and systems in something as structured as the OP banged out.
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#23Good luck to anyone who wants to try to replace the whiteboard with any kind of screen technology. For me, nothing is even remotely close to be able to replace whiteboard, brown paper and marker pens. I'm not saying that the void doesn't exist, it's just that the void currently is too big and all solutions are nowhere near filling the void. With a whiteboard my experience is that everyone can pick up a pen and start…
Reminds me of an interview of David Fattal, where the journalist asked him about how he got the idea of the holographic 3D screen: "My [...] colleagues go directly to tablets to work on mathematical computing software like Matlab or Simulink, where computations are guided. Due to that, they sometimes lack intuition. With my pen and paper, I work anywhere." (La Recherche, 2015/03, translated) Here I understand "anywhere" as both physically, and in the conceptual/mental space.
>Some times, to be able to discuss your problem space you need to remove all distractions.
And also all constraints/guidances.
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#25I was involved in a very large system a decade ago that used robodoc. Robodoc has less features than doxygen but worked across more languages.
Swagger.io is a nice system although limited exclusively to REST APIs.
Anyway the examples above rendered extremely quickly even in 2010 and you could scaffold out entire ideas more or less in real time to get a whiteboard-ish experience assuming everyone on a conference call had a web browser window open.
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#27Been doping this for over 20 years: purchase the raw material used for cheap shower walls. It is the same material used to make whiteboards. 20 years ago a "shower wall panel" was the size of an entire wall, 4 x 8 feet, for about $11. I just checked Home Depot, they are only $27 now. I just drill/screw them right to the wall. Best thing ever. I have several rooms with doodle walls.
Re: Filling the Void of a Physical Whiteboard
#28Been doping this for over 20 years: purchase the raw material used for cheap shower walls. It is the same material used to make whiteboards. 20 years ago a "shower wall panel" was the size of an entire wall, 4 x 8 feet, for about $11. I just checked Home Depot, they are only $27 now. I just drill/screw them right to the wall. Best thing ever. I have several rooms with doodle walls.
Do you have a link? Tried searching but found many options, but none that fits your description. Thanks!
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Broan-Universal-Backsplash-Plate-Wh...
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#29I was fully remote before COVID, and the best solution I have come up with so far is iPad + Apple Pencil + Google Jamboard. I can open it on my PC and screen share from there into meetings or with others than don’t use Jamboard.