Leap Motion and the virtual interfaces
The eagerly waited Leap Motion controller is now out, and reviews are pouring in. Most of them see the promise but find the current experience frustrating: Here's the thing: the Leap Motion is almost...
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NoFlo Kickstarter, the hacker's perspective
This has been a big week for NoFlo, the flow-based programming environment for JavaScript. Yesterday we released NoFlo 0.4, which added support for running flow-based programs in web browsers. And...
View ArticleMy interview on the origins of NoFlo
Here is a video interview of me talking about the origins of NoFlo, the flow-based programming environment for JavaScript: You've seen short pieces from this in the NoFlo Kickstarter video, but most...
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GeoClue rises again
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. Thanks to the amazing advances in...
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NoFlo talk at c-base, August 9th 2013
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! Rungestr. 20 If you can't make it, we have a...
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Why did I reimplement Jekyll using NoFlo
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...
View ArticleNoFlo coverage in August 2013
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,...
View ArticleInterview with J. Paul Morrison, the father of Flow-Based Programming
J. Paul Morrison invented Flow-Based Programming while at IBM in 1969. I ran into the concept in 2011 while trying to figure out a better way to create software. I read his canonical book on the...
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Flying a Quadrocopter with NoFlo
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...
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An update from the NoFlo world
Wow, September was a busy month. As you probably know, our NoFlo Development Environment Kickstarter succeeded with 115% funding. Thanks everybody! Since then we've been busy hacking on the user...
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NoFlo and GNOME
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...
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BitCoin as a Medium of Exchange
BitCoin — the decentralized digital currency — has been making a lot of headlines lately. Much of this is driven by the current investment boom around it that has raised the exchange rates over the...
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Flowhub
We just opened the Flowhub website for pre-orders. Flowhub is the collaborative development environment for NoFlo and other flow-based programming systems. Once it launches for general use, Flowhub is...
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