NoFlo and GNOME

13 November 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 4 minute read.

As the readers of this blog know, I’ve been working on a Flow-Based Programming implementation for JavaScript in the form of the NoFlo project. The idea of FBP in nutshell is to separate the control flow of software from the actual implementation. Developers build reusable “black box” components that are then connected with each other through a graph that you...

An update from the NoFlo world

04 October 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 5 minute read.

Wow, September was a busy month. As you probably know, our NoFlo Development Environment Kickstarter succeeded with 115% funding. Thanks everybody!

Flying a Quadrocopter with NoFlo

09 September 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 1 minute read.

The Parrot AR.Drone is quite a lot of fun, and also quite hackable. We recently got one, and the first thing to do was to connect the excellent Node.js ar-drone module with the NoFlo flow-based programming framework.

Interview with J. Paul Morrison, the father of Flow-Based Programming

06 September 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 1 minute read.

J. Paul Morrison invented Flow-Based Programming while at IBM in 1969.

NoFlo coverage in August 2013

02 September 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 2 minute read.

August was a big month for NoFlo. We launched the Kickstarter campaign, which went from 0 to 90% inside the month. The Kickstarter has brought quite a lot of attention to Flow-Based Programming, including lots of interesting new NoFlo contributions. There has also been quite a lot of media coverage, and I thought to collect these into one place. To...

Why did I reimplement Jekyll using NoFlo

12 August 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 4 minute read.

Jekyll is a delightful piece of software. A Ruby application that turns your Markdown and HTML files to a nicely constructed static website. Since the generated site is static, you can deploy and serve it from anywhere with no security or performance concerns. As a matter of fact, this site is built with Jekyll.

Software is not text

11 August 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 4 minute read.

It has been interesting to watch the reactions to Bret Victor’s The Future of Programming and our NoFlo Kickstarter. While much of it has been supportive, there seems to be a largish group of people that are offended by these notions. How dare we suggest that software could be made in other ways than textually?

NoFlo talk at c-base, August 9th 2013

09 August 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 1 minute read.

I will be giving a talk on NoFlo tonight at 9pm at the c-base hackerspace in Berlin. If you’re interested in flow-based programming, feel free to join!

GeoClue rises again

08 August 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 2 minute read.

Those that have been following my blog for a longer time know that I’ve been talking a lot about making the Linux desktop and mobile platforms location aware.

My interview on the origins of NoFlo

06 August 2013 in Berlin, Germany. 1 minute read.

Here is a video interview of me talking about the origins of NoFlo, the flow-based programming environment for JavaScript: