Information programming doesn’t just integrate systems, it unifies systems. It can unify business goals with technology domains in software as it is developed. It can be used to u… Read More

Like the Pirelli Tire building missing its third story, software development missing its third level will hit a development ceiling. This building is a good analogy for the state of softwar… Read More

When I think about where automated/computer decision making exists in this stack, it is in level 6 – computational creativity. You see, level 5 – artificial intelligence analyzes… Read More

Endemes are useful for some things and not others. ADVANTAGES ———- Not to make light of these disadvantages because they are significant, why do I like them? 1. Endeme sets… Read More

Semantic data semantic layer for software development could software development become easier if we could build a data semantic layer on top of databases? what if we could build a data sema… Read More

This list covers action verbs to think about information in order to create new project ideas. Note that ‘negate’ gets used with other action verbs like ‘hurt’; note… Read More

Some example projects that could be built using Level 3: Attention management: email, social media, texting, collaboration, advertising – a system that will manage these based on user… Read More

Here are some examples of capabilities that using information provides for a program when used inside an application: Allocation: Balancing/distribution/Balancing/resource allocation Buildin… Read More

This is in response to a question asked on Fora Is there a “ceiling” in software engineering? Why? Software developers hit a glass ceiling because software development itsel… Read More

I will start with an example. Here are examples at each level to handle a user-customer relationship: Level 1 – RDB: A join table: —————— user custo… Read More

Programming won’t really be complete until we push our software development technology up to level 4. Level 4 issues: workflow layout ontological meaning/context The reason we have so… Read More

Wisdom is a Computational Creativity Function. The computer has to create what it is going to do by applying its understanding gained through artificial intelligence. An Example: Data: (Raw)… Read More

Endemes Allow a Computer to Understand Information Better. Web 3.0 To be clear, web 3.0 will use the following technologies to help a computer understand information: OWL – ontologies… Read More

You can think of level 3 as adding a third dimension to programming. The first dimension is database, the second dimension is object orientation. The third dimension is information orientati… Read More

Trace-backs are highly useful for computational creativity programming. In order to debug and build on something created, you need to know how the system did it. Are trace-backs useful for i… Read More

Human computer communication through creativity: Endemes provide an excellent way to merge user desired characteristics and randomness (aritificial creativity). An endeme is a permuted list… Read More

I have seen grids in UIs that have dozens of columns, and the user has to scroll right a page or two to see all of the items. We can build UI grids that show only the columns a user wants or… Read More

GUIDs are for – information – networking – security Read More

How to Design Endeme Sets Designed to Combine: Each characteristic in an endeme should be designed to combine with any of the others resulting in a large number of possible emergent properti… Read More

In figuring out how to work with information inside a computer program, I am working toward building an inner platform. The thing I have to watch out for is an anti-pattern called the &ldquo&hell…Read More

We should probably avoid the EAV model. The definition of an EAV model is having tables in a database that contain three columns: object, attribute, value. Either do information full up in a… Read More

In responding to Rees Morrison’s blog post “Information technology … is a misnomer” or seriously under-inclusive. I see the following situation. Programming has fail… Read More

DRY In software development, DRY stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself. Conventionally this principle gets implemented by frameworks like ASP.NET MVC and Ruby on Rails by having a single so… Read More

Once you have the endeme sets, you can automatically build a UI to access the information and the data – the data with endeme based context UI’s, these ‘views’ would… Read More

Why do companies outsource their IT departments and software development? It hurts them in the long run, as they lose control of the knowledge of how their company works. They also have trou… Read More

The dreams of computer programming: The dream of writing a true AI program. The dream of writing programs to meet our needs and desires and to provide benefits to us, for example including i… Read More

The world GDP is about 75 Trillion. More half of people are mismatched to their jobs which means they are working at less than half productivity. More than half of managers are not matched t… Read More

The first thing to do when wrapping and glomming a database is to extract the endeme sets. Part I – Extracting the endeme sets To extract candidate endemes from a database, it would be… Read More

The first thing to do when wrapping and glomming a database is to extract the endeme sets. Extracting the endeme sets – Part I To extract candidate endemes from a database: It would be… Read More

Denormalization has something to do with information. People like to see denormalized data because they like to see its context. Context is an important part of information. Denormalization… Read More

Programming is all about defining the meanings of words and using them to do things. Our next step is to write programs that handle the meaning of words or something analagous to that. I cou… Read More

I have gone and looked at the various software development diagrams available on Wikipedia. I have focused on the graphs (nodes and connections). The natural level for graphs is level 4 (kno… Read More

I have just pushed out a new version of the information library. It is at https://sourceforge.net/projects/informationlibc/. This library will allow you to work with endemes in a POCO framew… Read More

Technology    +-------------+          User Focus         | User    … Read More

Somewhere between words and sentences is multi-word terms. Endemes can be used to define words in a way a computer can understand. Multi-word terms is the next step up from using endemes to… Read More

Somewhere between words and sentences is multi-word terms. Endemes can be used to define words in a way a computer can understand. Multi-word terms is the next step up from using endemes to… Read More

One of the reasons why information programs are so powerful is that information(level 3 and level4) programs are able to use the information they create. They build on their own structures… Read More

One of the reasons why information programs are so powerful is that information(level 3 and level4) programs are able to use the information they create. They build on their own structures… Read More

I miss wiki wiki web If feels like a deep hole in my soul now that it is no longer active we could go there and talk about general programming issues We could work on each other’s stuf… Read More

We can extract information value from maintenance and legacy code. Legacy code contains lots of business rules. It also contains lots of level 3 design information. Level 3 Design Informatio… Read More

Here are the 11 key relationships that businesses must handle properly to succeed. Relationship with technology — technology, adaptability, design, innovation. Relationship between qua… Read More

SQL queries may really be a form of information request. Embedded in the implicit need for a SQL query may be an information question or request. How do I identify the information question a… Read More

Software development is dying because software development has failed to build the tools necessary to work at level 3 or level 4. Therefore when people and employers start thinking about wor… Read More

Programmers could build mutual languages for talking with users. One of the difficulties of programming is figuring out what the users are asking for. Programmers base their understanding an… Read More

To see people committing technological suicide, and to rope me in as being part of it, leads me to feel nausea. I feel like throwing up when I have to build reports. Reports are a form of te… Read More

Users see the wrong things so they can’t ask for the right things. Programmers work really hard to convert data to information to show the users based on user needs. These are ad hoc c… Read More

We have report generation tools like Crystal reports and SSRS. We could do better that these. I propose building a tool called ‘fReports’ which stands for free reports. It would… Read More

The Flip Side of Removing Technical Debt is Adding Information Value When managing software development, there needs to be an amalgamation phase to convert types and bits into endemes. (- o… Read More

My work seems to follow the following cycle: +-------------+    +-------------+ | identify    |    | model,      | | generic&nbs&hell…Read More

These five technology foci can support each other in these various ways cloud    - IT big data - BI mobile   - smart phones social   - Internet my informa… Read More