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Drawing boxes and arrows on a whiteboard has long been a mainstay of software development planning. Originally created in the 1970s by IBM, this idea of flow-based programming has long dominated the ...

Forty years ago, a Canadian bank pioneered a brand new computer system that allowed non-programmers to help write code. The paradigm was so disruptive that it was ignored by computer scientists for ...

I'm trying to determine if this flow-based programming paradigm is good for us. We're going to, soon, be inundated with multiple different "streams" of inbound data in multiple formats and there are ...

To help teach coding a new visual flow-based programming environment has been created by the Media Computing Group aptly named the Flowboard. The research project brings flow-based programming to ...

Do websites dream of electric designers? Can web content know itself? The Grid, a San Francisco startup, is changing the way websites are designed by radically changing the role of the designer. This ...

Node-RED is a powerful, open-source tool for wiring together devices, APIs, and online services. Built on Node.js, it enables developers to create complex workflows through an intuitive, browser-based ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. The National Security Agency (NSA) is not perhaps known for ...