When I meet a new development of a certain size (a few lineasmás the hello world), I usually do a pre-design using diagrams and apply some (perhaps not limited to) the methods I learned during the technical engineering career.

The least I usually do is a data model and outline the application using UML. So far he had done by hand or with any vector drawing program or flowchart. The first approach is difficult to maintain because if there are many modifications have to be erasing and repainting the plot being all very sucio.La second approach is cleaner but also very cumbersome. (more...)