Un-learn how to code. Why would you want to un-learn how to code? The problem with “coding” is that it is the process of taking a high-level description of information and process, that can be easily understood by people – and translate it into a lower level of description of the exact same information and …
Who is MDriven for?
To answer the question who we build MDriven for we created these personas: The developer, The status quo person, The manager, The customer. Developers do not want to spend excessive time to get one thing done since there are so many different things to improve. Developers tend to fix the things that needs fixing the …
To AI or not to AI
If we zoom really far out there are only two problems in the world: Figure out what to do (problem formulation) Do it (problem solution) Modern AI is always in the “Do it” category – because problem formulation requires a will to change – when AI gets there I will update this article. Most new …
Visual Studio 2019
You can now run MDriven Framework in Visual Studio 2019. It will work in Community, Professional and Enterprise editions. The same install will work in VS2019, VS2017 and VS2015. With this release we deprecate earlier VS-versions. Who is MDriven Framework for? It is for developers that focus on Problem-Formulation rather than coding. The main challenge …
Fighting consensus
For humans consensus is important. Consensus in a group means that no one will argue with the established beliefs and if you do you will meet resistance. Consensus is a dangerous thing that leads to groupthink and may lead us to disregard hard facts verified by experiments as the scientific methods postulate – but it …
DEBUGGER NEWS 2019 #2
Debugging should be fun! Visualizing data in 3D is fun! We added this thing that can help you to see things faster: Take a look at this video: How to use it? Inspiration: Color tetrahedrons based on a state attribute to let your eye detect rough percentage of each Plot date attribute (converted and scaled …
Introducing MDriven TaJson
I know – we have grown accustomed to things being REALLY complicated when it comes to software development. But what if everything was easy? How would it be then? Would we get time over and invest that time into building complicated things? Probably. So there might be no Nirvana were our brains are not needed …
Debugger news 2019 #1
New way to hold multiple expressions per session: For each expression you add you can bring up OclEditor or execute. You can now use the new debugger and OclEditor in runtime. Only one expression is active at a time – and it is marked with “Current”. This is the expression that is executed when you …
Cache Invalidation–a real problem for us all
“There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, and naming things.”— Phil Karlton Caches are all around – when we do a small derived field combining first name and last name in a new attribute complete name it is a cache of sorts. But we may typically think of cache as something our …
SVG and MDriven Turnkey Components
SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics – supported in all modern browsers. As always when I do something I want to have a small sample that runs all the way – that gets data from somewhere – show this data somehow – allow a user to update this data – and finally send that data back …