NIMSpro™ Development

Development News

The NIMSpro™ Development Team releaseed NIMSpro™ v1.5 on July 4th, 2008. This latest release includes exciting new enhancements, new simulations, step-by-step installation instructions, and a few bug fixes.

NIMSpro™ is maintained and improved by the community of users and developers. If you have development skills and would like to join the NIMSpro™ Development Team, please visit our project site hosted on SourceForge.net and register to join the Team!

• Project name: NIMSpro
• Developers on project: 3
• Activity percentile (last week): 76.73%
• Downloadable files: 2388 total downloads to date
• Discussion forums (public): 2, containing 6 messages
• Tracker: Bugs (0 open/11 total)
• Tracker: Support Requests (0 open/0 total)
• Tracker: Patches (0 open/0 total)
• Tracker: Feature Requests (0 open/0 total)

The documents below are the development design documents used to create NIMSpro™ version 1.x. These documents may not accurately reflect the final release version due to design changes during the development process, however they should be very close and thus helpful.

• Development Statechart: Programmatic Architecture (PDF 232.74 Kb)
• Development Database Schema: Database Field Descriptions (TXT 9.51 Kb)
• Development Query Catalog: Query SQL (DOC 90.0 Kb)
• Development Database Writes: Write SQL (DOC 24.58 Kb)
• Development Database ERD Diagram: NIMSpro ERD (PDF 366.33 Kb)

Change BLOG

The Design Change BLOG will keep up to date on NIMSpro™ design and development changes.

Helpful Tools

The following is provided by NIMSpro™ designers to list some of the more helpful tools they use for application development or simulation design.

MySQL Tools

• Navicat™ - Navicat™ is a fantastic database tool for working with SQL databases, specifically MySQL databases in the case of NIMSpro™. It is very inexpensive (about $100), and can save endless hours of frustration trying to develop, administer, maintain, or create MySQL databases. The original NIMSpro™ database schema (including queries) was implemented using this tool. A great tool if you're not a script person and prefer visual interfaces.
• phpMyAdmin - This is a solid and commonly used tool for MySQL database administration. It's not quite as easy or visual as Navicat, but as Open Source it is free.

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