this is really for all programing languages

Vbabiy

I was wondering if any one has and software that works good drawing out program designs and stuff like that, all so database design

jazz_snob

I use dia for flow charts and UML diagrams. its free of course!
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/

There is a windows binary out there....somewhere...for dia.

although, about 99% of what i do is on a white board w/ pens

Weedpacket

I've just heard of summat called inkscape and am about to have a look at it.

goldbug

I use ArgoUML for UML and UML->code generation. For pretty much any other type of visualization, I use OmniGraffle, but it's only for OS X. If you're looking for a SVG editor/illustrator, SodiPodi is available for free.

EDIT: I now see that weed's recommendation of Inkscape, is actually a maintained fork of Sodipodi... so you're probably best to go that route for SVG.
....looks like my software is way out of date.

Sxooter

Yeah, DIA, while making some fairly primitive looking (in terms of polish) charts, works quite well. Reminds me a lot of visio before MS bought it and mucked it all up.

There's also a program out there to take ER diagrams and create sql create statements from them, but I've not used that. It gets mentioned every few months on the pgsql-general lists.