I am a regular listener to the JavaPosse – if you listen to podcasts, I strongly recommend them (I listen to them when at the gym – as their episode lengths are perfect for that). They had a very interesting interview with Josh Reed – a hacker who spent some time working in Antarctica (!).Read more →
I have created the first Quick Start movie, which is an introductory tutorial to the BRMS. This is my first attempt using “Wink” – and I realized that I had the screen resolution set too high after the fact, so consider this a practice run. I would appreciate any feedback on this. Click the imageRead more →
The BRMS (Business Rule Management System) has been in the works for sometime. Well, finally, there is something you can use, which works end to end. This is now part of the JBoss Rules 4 Milestone releases, so please, go ahead and start testing it ! There has been great work going on elsewhere inRead more →
SBVR is a OMG standard for natural language rules and vocabularies (nominally using English). We think SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules) is an important and useful standard, which can be used for rules interchange in a “source” and human readable format (which RuleML? and RIF are not aiming to do). From aRead more →
Well, its been a while since any updates. In the mean time I have moved house, twice, once to Sydney (temporarily) and then back to my home in Queensland, so its been a disruptive period. I have been working out of the wonderful Red Hat Sydney office (North Sydney, photos later – amazing view !),Read more →
Well I have had a great time in London, but it has gone fast. The entire purpose of this extended trip was to spend quality time with Mark so we could put our heads together and solve some of the hard design issues for the rules repository and version 3.2 (which who knows, may beRead more →
Often you hear/read/see adds for tools (rules or workflow) that claim breathlessly “look ma ! no code” – “rules with out code” – giving control back to the business etc. (if you haven’t, then you obviously have a good marketing detector, and are able to mentally filter out marketing messages). Some products live up toRead more →
Recently I (and Mark) attended JBoss World in Berlin. We ran a few sessions on rules, and had 2 excellent end user presentations, all was well received. Its good to see the cool stuff people are doing with rules, so I thought I would share a summary. Content Based Routing – Michael Frandsen (Syngenio) ContentRead more →
I have been beaving away on a new UI/rule modeller specifically for the web (well, at least the web initially, hopefully we will also do it stand alone in the plug in soon). This came about for 2 reasons:1) DSLs have proven to be quite popular, and we want to make them available on theRead more →
