Intent

We want to be able to grow our domain models. They must be infinitely scalable. Growing an already large model should not be more difficult than a small model. Change comes in two forms: changing existing functionality, or adding new. We want there to be as little difference as possible betwee...

Vannevar Bush has been referred to on this site, but despite him being Belgian (I am Dutch, which is almost Belgian?), I never heard of Paul Otlet, who seems to have pre-dated Bush by at least a decade. There is no evid...

The recent discussion about the programming paradigm needing an update spanned a number of topics (the discussion is so dense that it could probably make up a couple book chapters). One theme that kept coming up is that the current state of the art in business computing is horrid.

Developers nee...

For those who attended my presentation (and other interested people of course) on ESUG 2008 about Exploratory Modelling or xM, I collected some references.

• Slides of the presentation
• Podcast in which my presentation is discussed (note: no longer available, sorry)
• Video of the presentation, thanks to Ja...

Michael Arrington has created a little buzz with his blog post We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It.

We can do better.

Instead of Linux and Firefox, the Smalltalk system will provide an open-access environment on this thing, even for many end-users because the development enviro...