Hi Rob – I'm writing to see if this news catches your eye? Last week, a small team of developers and designers launched a Kickstarter campaign to draw attention to a new open source, Flow-Based Programming environment called NoFlo. I thought your Agile in the Clouds readers would be interested in the news, as well as in a new demo we plan to post later this week….
NoFlo is an effort to bring visual tools into the world of mainstream development. While similar tools are in use in specialized industries – like special effects for movies and gaming – general developers are still forced to build and re-create software maps and control flow for applications from scratch, every day…. For the most part, decades-old promises of programmer productivity and component reuse for the general population have mostly gone unrealized. NoFlo was built to fix that problem: NoFlo turns the logic of software into a graph – much like a flow-chart. NoFlo executes the graph, so the flow of an application can be constructed from re-usable components, and even drawn and edited visually. The NoFlo Developer Environment on Kickstarter campaign will allow NoFlo to offer a “mainstream” UI and templates designed to work with Noflo, but also adaptable to other .fbp environments. In just five days, we’ve raised about 65% of our Kickstarter goal. For the skeptics: NoFlo is tested and proven. It’s been live on GitHub in JavaScript since 2011, with hundreds of developers building applications using the .fbp language. We have a new demo, as well as a long cut video of an interview with the “father” of Flow-Based Programming, J. Paul Morrison. Of interest? Noflo’s founders, Henri Bergius and Dan Tocchini, are available to answer any questions – if their story catches your eye. Thanks much, it would be great to hear your thoughts, Jennifer ________________________ Jennifer Shanks Consort Partners | Public Relations [email protected] (e) 408-827-8033 (ph) 831-334-0489 (mobile) @jenshanks (twitter)
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