Just a reminder that my skills matter is tomorrow, here is the original posting: I’m going to be at SkillsMatter on Wednesday July the 11th (tomorrow) doing a seminar on JBoss Rules 4.0. The location is near Farringdon tube station and the time is from 18.30 to 20.30, and afterwards I’ll be around for drinksRead more →
Bruno Duarte mentioned GoogleFight as a humorous way of looking at the popularity of keywords for Drools vs “JBoss Rules”, for fun I also plugged in “Blaze Advisor” and JRules and pasted the screenshots below. Of course the results are pretty meaningless, especially as Drools is also a generic word; but it was still funRead more →
After 18 months of the JBoss Rules name for the product, Drools name for the project, my gut feeling is the split is contrite and only causes confusion – something that Marc Fleury also expressed at the time. The Drools brand was much stronger than expected, most sites use the two words together “JBoss Rules/Drools”,Read more →
When talking people through the Drools 4.0 set of features and how they work, I’ve found that there is simply too much for people to grok, without previous Expert System experience. So I thought I’d turn to Mind Maps to see if I can help make all our advanced concepts more grokkable. I found aRead more →
Stateless and Stateful Sessions With Rete you have a stateful session where objects can be asserted and modified over time, rules can also be added and removed. Now what happens if we assume a stateless session, where after the initial data set no more data can be asserted or modified (no rule re-evaluations) and rulesRead more →
So after my last post about the contracting market starting up, we see a new jobserve.com posting for the BRMS, before we even release it 🙂 Role: Software & Solution Developer/JBoss Rules Expert. Job purpose & accountabilities: JBoss rules expert for PIDP project – risk assessment. Assist tech lead with solution HLD. Assist in solutionRead more →
Jobserve is a website in the UK that has 80% of the IT job advertising market; as such it’s a great bell weather to get an idea of market rates and tech popularity. For the first time JBoss Rules/Drools jobs have finally started to appear in number, with good rates too. Simply type “jboss rules”Read more →
Dr. Gernot Starke has created a walk through of the Golfing example which can be found here:http://rbs.gernotstarke.de/samples/samples/golfer-riddle-jbr.html. It’s great that someone has taken up the role of documenting our examples, this is something we’ve purposefully held back on doing, hoping the community would take up this role – Thank you Dr Starke.
In Drools 4.0 we introduced the ‘from’ keyword, this allows you to declare a source for a pattern to reason over. This allows the engine to reason over data not in the Working Memory. This could be a sub-field on a bound variable or the results of a method call; the later provides us withRead more →
I’m going to be at SkillsMatter on July the 11th doing a seminar on JBoss Rules 4.0. The location is near Farringdon tube station and the time is from 18.30 to 20.30, and afterwards I’ll be around for drinks at the pub. So please do try and come along. More details can be found here.Read more →
