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This isnt web based but i use mysql workbench. Great tool. Has lots of little time saving features like table templates (can quickly right click and add a new table based upon a template u have created. Real time saver) and many many other goodies.

https://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/

dazmilleron Ask HN: Would someone in Australia mind pinging 3 IP addresses for me?

Hi,

Sydney, Dodo, Australia:

202.146.213.23

Pinging 202.146.213.3 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 202.146.213.3: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=58

Reply from 202.146.213.3: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=58

106.187.98.41

Pinging 106.187.98.41 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 106.187.98.41: bytes=32 time=138ms TTL=51

50.116.56.20

Pinging 50.116.56.20 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 50.116.56.20: bytes=32 time=243ms TTL=45

Reply from 50.116.56.20: bytes=32 time=242ms TTL=45

Hope this helps

dazmilleron Ask HN: Best way to learn ios dev?

check out the Ray Wenderlick tutorials, really well explained, up to date with storyboards and really well paced tutorials. Our staff loved them, and helped them get up to speed very quickly. http://www.raywenderlich.com/

dazmilleron Ask HN: Does anyone use the iOS Story Board functionality for non-trivial apps?

we have used it extensively in our applications, some of them with over 20 different views. The real power of the storyboard is to give you a visual guide to the flow of your application, and also a quick and easy way to get an overall picture of whats going where. We havent had any issues with it so far (but i know that some people have), but i am unable to offer a good reason why we havent had any issues, apart from maybe just dumb luck.

Our coders are now totaly in love with the storyboard view and i doubt i could get them to change easily. They are now producing code and apps 20%-30% faster than before simply due to the ability to see what is going on globally.

Another great feature is that you can easily demonstrate and allow non technical people to see the flow of screens and interactions.

dazmilleron What sort of project management software should I use for a small team?

jira is one of the best

http://www.atlassian.com/

you can download and install local or run in a hosted solution.

dazmilleron Ask HN: Getting into iOS Development (Advice)?

There is lots of work available, but be prepared to fight tooth and nail to make a decent profit from it.

if you dont know Obj-C and have some js knowledge then you can get up to speed very quickly using titanium appacelerator

http://www.appcelerator.com/

Uses js to do most things, so as a stopgap until you have fully learnt Obj-C this might be a good gentle introduction to iPhone dev. It also produces Android code (with some massaging).

dazmilleron Ask HN: Best paid iOS dev tutorials?

http://www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials

There IOS 5 by tutorials is very well done, and also uses XCode 4.2 (thank god)

http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-5-by-tutorials

dazmilleron Ask HN: Library to pretty print JSON?

i dont quite understand, the plugins allow you to view the resultant JSON from an ajax request. Sorry for misunderstanding.

The Firefox plugin states:

Normally when encountering a JSON document (content type "application/json"), Firefox simply prompts you to download the view. With the JSONView extension, JSON documents are shown in the browser similar to how XML documents are shown. The document is formatted, highlighted, and arrays and objects can be collapsed. Even if the JSON document contains errors, JSONView will still show the raw text.