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Job Highlight – Remote work for the Largest Insurance Provider in US

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This is a 100 percent telecommuting position…Link Here JOB INFO:JBoss/Drools – Java Development – Remote workLargest Insurance Provider in USBloomington, IL (telecommute) JOB DESCRIPTION:Overview: Looking for one resource to fill an SA/Business Intelligence request. This is a short term assignment, but will last at least 8 weeks, at 40 hours per week, with the potentialRead more →

Drools Content Based Routing with Camel (John Ellis)

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John Ellis has done a nice writeup of his work on improving Drools to work with Camel for CBR. You’ll need to use the latest version of Drools from trunk, which can be found in the maven repository that’s 5.2.0-SNAPSHOT, https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/drools/. For bonus points I’d love to see a further Drools and Camel tutorial aroundRead more →

Drools&jBPM Boot Camps 2011 USA – Sponsorship Needed

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I previously mentioned our next planned USA 2011 bootcamp:http://blog.athico.com/2010/09/drools-boot-camps-2011-usa-and-emea.html We are seeking sponsorship to help make this happen. These have been great events with growing numbers.San DiegoSan FranciscoSo if you want to help make a 2011 event happen, then please let me know. Maybe your a rules or workflow based consulting company that wants toRead more →

Gremlin: A Graph-Based Programming Language

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Gremlin is an interesting DSL, based on XPATH, for traversing graphs:“Gremlin is a Turing-complete, graph-based programming language developed for key/value-pair multi-relational graphs called property graphs. Gremlin makes extensive use of XPath 1.0 to support complex graph traversals. Connectors exist to various graph databases and frameworks. This language has application in the areas of graph query,Read more →

Declarative REST Services for Drools using Spring, Camel and CXF

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5.1CR1 has just been tagged and is being released, while that’s happening I thought I’d blog the new declarative services for drools-server. For those wanting to just dive in, download this .war and just unzip into TomCat.https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/drools-5.1.0.SNAPSHOT-server.war Once that’s unzipped you should be able to look at and run the test.jsp to see it working.Read more →

[Off Topic] Back from my honeymoon

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As some of you know I got married last month and have been away on a long honeymoon, but I’m finally back 🙂 I’ll make this a small off topic personal entry, hope people don’t mind. We climbed Kilimanjaro, probably hardest thing I’ve ever done. We walked for 5 days to reach the main ascentRead more →

Dell online help support fails the Turing Test

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It’s official Eliza is more intelligent than Dell help agents.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA Had a sadly hilarious online chat with Dell support today, it reminded me of the old Eliza program. I expected any minute for it to ask me how I felt about the fan. Here is the conversation I had, it’s the abridged version as IRead more →

Definition of Hell for an Englishman

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“There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cookRead more →