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Have you ever wondered what the Internet, WWW or an individual blog looked like? Having young kids and an interest in visualization -- particularly 3D -- gets you into these things! Wordle can create nice "word clouds" from an RSS feed. It is also a good example of a Java Applet (that works!). See below for the cloud I just created for this blog. I need to write some code to export an RSS feed from Rule Team Server and then business...   [Continue Reading]


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The papers have been filled with scientific, and not so scientific, stories about the Large Hadron Collider . It sounds (to my ignorant mind) like fascinating science and the project is a real testament to man's (and woman's) incredibly stubborn quest for answers. Like a bookish three year-old we are constantly asking "...but why?". There is a very tenuous ILOG link to this post because Nicolas Sauterey informed me last week that many...   [Continue Reading]


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I just got back from an on-site visit with one of our customers in the USA, a major insurance company. The customer is using JRules 6.6.x for commercial property insurance underwriting. The trip was very interesting as we were able to get hands-on with their large rule project for 3 days -- approximately 40,000 rules. We gained some fascinating insights into their development challenges and in exchange we performed an audit to ensure they were...   [Continue Reading]


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"The Pull Of The Pint" by Bill Coleman This is a lesson not a rule It wasn't easy when the penny dropped inside your head But now you know the joke you tell it to your friends... Do any of these sound familiar? Function Stored procedure Table Look-up Algorithm Business process Front controller Validator Data transformation Message router Pattern matcher Composite and Command design patterns

ILOG just announced a certification program for JRules 6 . The program is open to all and you can be certified at the bronze, silver or gold level. For the past 6 months or so Jean Pommier's team has been collecting and classifying tricky JRules 6 questions for the various exams. The exams are administered by Pearson Vue who have over 4,000 testing centers around the world. There is almost certainly one near you . The program allows JRules...   [Continue Reading]


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A few years ago I recall scouring MSDN looking for a Model View Controller (MVC) framework and found an odd assortment of patterns including one article that was attempting to posit ASP.NET itself as a sort of MVC pattern. At the time my need was great and I decided to implement the “ Front Controller ”  with its use of the HTTP Handler.   Interestingly, I used the pattern in spite of the verdict that the author of the article...   [Continue Reading]

Laurent Grateau brought this tutorial to my attention.  Its a handy reference for implementing SSL with your WCF services.  This can be used for enforcing encryption with the RES.NET management and persistence services ( click here for the tutorial ). CCB

I have spent an inordinate amount of time lately talking about the benefits of language—something you might appreciate since your are currently reading this blog AND understanding it. Language is a sort of human-level contract we have with each other and by using it we can find our way to understandings—flawed as that may be at times. In fact, some people have developed a discipline of double checking their language and stop to ask...   [Continue Reading]

In the post ( I Want To Believe Redux ) my goal was to describe the fictitious story about a bright architect that matured a in-house rules technology. Along the way, the architect experienced pressure points and addressed the requirements in motion. At the start, the architect might have reached different conclusions before proceeding with the effort—for we all lack a critical view of something on the horizon from time to time. Below are some of...   [Continue Reading]