Jos Jong

Author, presenter, blogger, and twitterer about the future of programming languages, databases, and vertically integrated architectures.

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

Book Page of the Week #10 (p. 234)
Contrary to what many software developers think, non-developers can very well handle complex formulas and models. It’s just the complexity of software tools that keep them away from developing their own applications.
See https://t.co/9Vz8OWr86D

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@mvirkkunen Well, at least these people originally got what they want. Time to market counts. I can understand they do not want to wait for an IT department to help them out. So the question I like to ask: can we make betters tools for them than spreadsheets.

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

Book Page of the Week #10 (p. 234)
Contrary to what many software developers think, non-developers can very well handle complex formulas and models. It’s just the complexity of software tools that keep them away from developing their own applications.
See https://t.co/9Vz8OWr86D

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@aahoogendoorn Given that people can do amazingly complex things indeed (we agree on that) with programming CNC machines, designing PCB's, building financial models, etc., the question (in my book) is why this would not be possible for building screens and reports.

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@Colwildotcom True given today's tools. However, my book is analysing why and how to fix that.

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@giulio_vian @Just4TheInfomat It is a lot more than that indeed: inverse relationships, cardinality safety (strict singular/plural use of terms), no distinction between query and regular language features, etc. If you’re interested, find my presentation and details about my book on https://t.co/jab1RcInZi.

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

Book Page of the Week #9 (p. 75)
Why I hope we can go beyond JSON databases very soon: data is not exclusively hierarchical, and arbitrarily clustering data in documents results in the entanglement of conceptual and technical aspects.
For the full story: https://t.co/9Vz8OWr86D

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@cliffordheath You mean like the NIAM that I eargeredly studied cover to cover thirty years ago and was actually one of the main motivations to think about data and database modelling?

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@CommonAccord Sure. But that's not the point of the concerning chapter in my book in which I dive into the fundamentals of data modelling and querying, data model versioning, query optimisation, etc.

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@pblakez Cool. Maybe, although very concise compared to the book, see my presentation: https://t.co/uLlKdjEHdA

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@ninjasavant This is assuming there will be no future development and we have to stick we what we have. Maybe see my presentation to get the gist of my book that goes into the fundamentals and future. Not 'just a pragmatic approach' given the current available tools.
https://t.co/uLlKdjEHdA

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@BrianVerm Thanks for the pragmatic answer. My book however looks further into the fundamentals of data modelling, querying, and how to overcome the issues that held us back from writing less code that we do now (without the pitfalls of old 4GL and current low-code).

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@toflidium Sorry to hear that. I'm obviously promoting my book by twittering a passage once in a while, trying to start a discussion (which certainly does and did happen). If it interests you, maybe see my most recent presentation: https://t.co/uLlKdjEHdA

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@SFDreverman The examples in my most recent presentation might answer your question:
https://t.co/bSjjhvQPsi

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@SFDreverman Especially 'nouns versus verbs' is interesting. It typically makes more sense to use nouns instead of verbs, for example:
customer [ name = 'Company X' ] orders
instead of
MATCH (customer:Customer{name:"Company X"})
-[:HAS_PLACED]->(orders)
RETURN orders
(2/2)

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@SFDreverman I do indeed mention them and had myself inspired by them. The concerning chapter is however analysing the fundamentals of relationships: singular versus plural, unidirectional versus bidirectional, schemaless versus schemafull approaches, and nouns versus verbs (1/2)

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@gigatexal I'm actually working on a (demo) prototype. Live very soon!

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

Why does this still happen with Windows in 2019. I'm totally not an Apple adept, but my Mac automatically updates during the night.

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@skohlmann Don't worry, I'm not saying that JSON document don't have their benefits or don't work. My book is about the fundamentals and the future.

[Jos Jong @jos_jong_nl]

@behrangsa I agree. I do however propose a lot in my book to go beyond graph databases: schema migration, ownership and because
- customer [name = 'Company X'] orders
better fits a progr. language than
- MATCH (customer:Customer{name:"Company X"}) -[:HAS_PLACED]->(orders) RETURN orders