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Flowhub is now in Public Beta

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Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

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Post by bergie »

danso wrote: post #17

I think well-structured and designed landing pages are too infrequent, so I like the OP on that alone...and being an optimist, I'm always a little excited when I hear of a new paradigm, or an iteration of it...because that means that there is a (slightly) new way of thinking about and doing things...maybe even better than my own. Either way, I like that the opportunity exists (even if I never get around to thoroughly…

How easy is it to examine the underlying abstractions behind connecting one pipe from one icon to another?

Depends on the runtime you're talking to. For example MicroFlo on an Arduino behaves quite differently from NoFlo on Node.js

In NoFlo each connection is basically connecting an event emitter to an event listener. So, what happens is a JavaScript addEventListener operation.

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

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Post by eric_cc »

mikeryan wrote: post #7

I can not, for the life of me, tell what this is from the website. The video seems like a parody from the HBO's Silicon Valley show. I even clicked through to the app http://app.flowhub.io/ which wants me to log in and then clicked on the "Docs" Button and finally got to this: Flowhub is a web-based IDE for flow-based programming. It is built on NoFlo.js for both client and server. It can connect to any language or e…

You're not the only one who had no clue. I still don't. I watched the video. I made this comment. And I'm not wasting another second of my time on flowhub..

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

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Post by ThePhysicist »

Granted that dataflow programming (DFP) is probably a bad idea for general-purpose software development, I still think there are some great use cases for it.

For example, I think it could be a great fit for business intelligence and data analysis, since DFP really is a pretty natural way to think about data transformation and aggregation, and most people that would not be able to understand a map/reduce function or a complex Python notebook would probably be able to understand a flowchart-like diagram showing the transformations applied to the incoming data.

Business process automation could be another great use case for this technology, since it's also natural to think of a business process as a flowchart.

The advantage of these specialized use cases is that you don't have to reinvent programming from scratch to make them work.

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

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Post by jonahx »

mikeryan wrote: post #7

I can not, for the life of me, tell what this is from the website. The video seems like a parody from the HBO's Silicon Valley show. I even clicked through to the app http://app.flowhub.io/ which wants me to log in and then clicked on the "Docs" Button and finally got to this: Flowhub is a web-based IDE for flow-based programming. It is built on NoFlo.js for both client and server. It can connect to any language or e…

You're not alone. Even the wikipedia page on flow-based programming doesn't help me much.

I'd love to see something like todomvc implemented with this, to give it some grounding.

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

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Post by mov »

Theodores wrote: post #18

I am elderly enough to remember IRIS Explorer on SGI Workstations way back in the 1990's, when having a 2Gb hard drive was just about unimaginable. Here is a quickly Googled screenshot: http://wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch/wwwasdoc/lhcpp/irisexplorer.gif IRIS Explorer was awesome, but hardware was not really up to the job in those days. There was also a rich market in GIS and other applications that did what you needed so the…

IRIS Explorer seems really interesting! I agree with you about that "loose of control feeling". I think it is a common effect that happens every time we go to a higher level or alternative paradigm. We have to create ways to easy go trough those levels and back again.

With Flowhub you can always go inside the 'black boxes' creating your own components as reported in the "Component Editor" section of http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/flowhub-beta. It is also possible to create and remix subgraphs that is another way to abstract a complex group of components.

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

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Post by mov »

jonahx wrote: post #26
mikeryan wrote: post #7

I can not, for the life of me, tell what this is from the website. The video seems like a parody from the HBO's Silicon Valley show. I even clicked through to the app http://app.flowhub.io/ which wants me to log in and then clicked on the "Docs" Button and finally got to this: Flowhub is a web-based IDE for flow-based programming. It is built on NoFlo.js for both client and server. It can connect to any language or e…

You're not alone. Even the wikipedia page on flow-based programming doesn't help me much. I'd love to see something like todomvc implemented with this, to give it some grounding.

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/

Re: Flowhub is now in Public Beta

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Post by Goopplesoft »

gtaylor wrote: post #19
mikeryan wrote: post #7

I can not, for the life of me, tell what this is from the website. The video seems like a parody from the HBO's Silicon Valley show. I even clicked through to the app http://app.flowhub.io/ which wants me to log in and then clicked on the "Docs" Button and finally got to this: Flowhub is a web-based IDE for flow-based programming. It is built on NoFlo.js for both client and server. It can connect to any language or e…

> I can not, for the life of me, tell what this is from the website. This makes me feel a little better. I couldn't tell what this is, either. I scrolled all the way down and eventually found a FAQ link that helps: http://flowhub.io/documentation/flowhub-faq/ May be worth putting that somewhere more prominent.

Similar. I watched the video, read all the copy too, which I usually wouldn't do. Sucks these things are hard to fix on announcement day...
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