FAQ for bloggers and press
Who created ORM Designer?
ORM Designer team consists of four people. Ludek Vodicka, Frantisek Troster, Iva Kubickova and Martin Srom. Ludek Vodicka is the chief developer of ORM Designer, Frantisek Troster is the creator of ORM Designer web page and PHP ORM framework consultant, Iva Kubickova is our community assistant and Martin Srom works as the canvas drawing developer.
Why we created ORM Designer?
First version of ORM Designer was built in 2007 for our company needs. After a while we realized that this tool could be usefull for many ORM developers, so we decided to create public version with a fancy interface ;-)
Who is ORM Designer intended for?
ORM Designer is useful for any developer who use ORM framework for his projects. With our tool he can save time and avoid errors creating application model. Instead of writing all definitions by hand he simply designs everything.
How many users do we have?
After about 8 months we have around 100 customers.
Why choose ORM Designer?
Because ORM Designer can make your job much easier and can save your hair from getting grey too soon. You won’t find any tool that can compare with the ORM framework support provided by ORM Designer. You can find many good tools to design MySQL database schema or generic UML diagram like MySQL Workbench or DB Designer. But what you won’t find in these tools is import from ORM definitions, many-to-many relationship support, inheritance support, ORM framework specific definitions, splitting model into standalone modules and many more. All these features are provided by ORM Designer.
What are ORM Designer’s top features?
- Intuitive, nice and user friendly interface (http://www.orm-designer.com/user-interface)
- Model import/export for every supported ORM framework with automatic layout arranging (http://www.orm-designer.com/files-and-serialization)
- Advanced ORM framework techniques support like Inheritance, behaviours, many-to-many relations
- Model import from DbDesigner and MySql workbench
- Assistants and wizards helping you with ORM framework definitions. http://www.orm-designer.com/custom-object-properties
- Model is stored in a human-readable XML format. Good for SVN versioning. (http://www.orm-designer.com/files-and-serialization)
- Model can be divided into multiple modules stored on different places. Good for plugin sharing. (http://www.orm-designer.com/programming-practices)
- When designing your model you create also project documentation at the same time
- Project tree for searching and model manipulation (http://www.orm-designer.com/model-manipulation)
- Search through whole model for any object type
- And much more ;-)
Has ORM Designer some official logo?
We're currently working on some official logo-icon. Until that, please feel free to use our banner:
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Can be ORM Designer be followed by community channels?
ORM Designer has its own twitter channel and facebook page. We also write lot of posts on our ORM Designer blog.
How does ORM Designer look like?
Here is several screenshots from the latest ORM Designer version:
ORM Designer layout:
ORM Designer features:
If you want to get more screenshots, please let us know. We will be glad to provide you with them.
Conclusion
If you have any question to us, please feel free to contact us on our mail info@orm-designer.com. We will be glad to provide you with any information you need.
