Lucidchart diagrams

If you are in need to create a diagram and you have no tool for it, try http://www.lucidchart.com/. Your browser is enough. You can draw Flowcharts, UML Diagrams, Mid Maps, Organisation Diagrams and others.

New release of Astah

There is a new version of Astah, software for building UML 6.5.1
Download is available from: http://www.astah.net/download#professional

We can use also an Astah's plug-in for Atlassian Confluence: https://plugins.atlassian.com/plugin/details/815022

Astah version 6.5

Change Vision has released Astah version 6.5. It is the next version of a program for building UML diagrams. The biggest change is possibility for creating your own plug-ins to extend Astah. Some bugs of version 6.4 were fixed. They have also released Astah Share version 2.5, that enables you to share your diagrams on your blog and wikis more easily. To see more go to page.

Friends of Astah

Astah the producer of UML modeling program has started a new program: Friends of Astah. The Idea of their move is to make astah Professional available for free to individuals and organizations in the software community for one year, but not only.
You can profit from it in the following ways:

• 1-year license of Astah Professional
• The use of Friends of Astah logo
• Publishing your activity (links to blog/articles/books)
• Friend of Astah membership sticker

How to take part in the program look for: http://astah.net/friends-of-astah

Tools for drawing UML

I can recommend some tools for UML.

First an on-line website http://yuml.me/. It just create an image file with an UML diagram based on simple test instructions. Check it!

Other tools for creating UML based on textual notation:

• UmlGraph
• TextUML Toolkit -

Astah for UML

I have recently needed a tool to generate UML diagram. It's been ages since I was using one. I think that was during my studies. As far as I can remember I was using ArgoUML. By the way, today it is not often used in the project as it used to be. Probably because of Agile approach.

I have found that ArgoUML hasn't had any new releases for a few years.
However, I found Astah. It is quite a useful tool.
http://astah.change-vision.com/en/index.html

The community version is free.

So if you need to build UML diagrams, I can recommend it.