Henri Bergius writes about flow-based programming, NoFlo and Flowhub, and his experiments with working on an Android tablet.
HN commenters link it for his NoFlo work and Kickstarter, and for his posts on working on a tablet instead of a laptop.
not entirely true. Gnome has a first class language - Vala [1] - that is for writing performant system level applications. And the community is quite active as well - https://github.com/trending?l=vala
If you think of automation, there have been attempts at bringing flow based programming to the Gnome-JS engine (think of it as Quartz Composer integrated into the desktop) [3] - plus the fact that http://extensions.gnome.org is about as automatic as you can get to customize the desktop.
Is it a difference in positioning ? Because honestly I'm a little befuddled on why all the developers on HN get supremely excited about JS on OSX... and not something like NoFlo.js integrated into Gnome.
[1] https://github.com/GNOME/vala
[2] http://lethalman.hostei.com/maja/index.html
[3] http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-and-gnome/
i am speaking from experience. and without getting into it myself, please refer to some others' opinions.
http://milesj.me/blog/read/wordpress-is-bad-mmmk
http://www.usingwp.com/general-WordPress/why-WordPress-sucks/
http://www.phpvs.net/2009/12/08/an-exercise-in-WordPress-integration-or-why-WordPress-sucks/
http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/7-bad-things-about-WordPress/
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1481631/why-is-wordpress-considered-to-be-poorly-programmed
http://someguyjeremy.com/blog/why-i-hate-wordpress
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/wordpress-decoupled/
Hey HN guys ... you should read up on the Kickstarter page before dismissing this, it really contains a ton of information summarized: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/noflo/noflo-development-environment
(The videos are especially great!)
Bergie has a lot of content on his blog as well (http://bergie.iki.fi).
I think it has s lot to offer also. Came across this recently. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-two-years/
Check out also the original FBP the article refers to. It seems they had a lot of success with it on the server side of enterprise. seems like it could be ideal for web back end stuff
That reminds me of the trend of switching from a laptop to a tablet.
cf:
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/six-weeks-working-android/
http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-later
I know some of these people switched back to a laptop. And I wonder why they did.
An implementation of TodoMVC is really a good idea! There is already a (re)implementation of Jekyll using NoFlo that you might find interesting: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-jekyll/