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Favourite UML Tool?
Over the past few months I've been doing a bit more "informal" modelling than usual; mostly UML class and sequence diagrams; the sort of thing you want to spend 10 minutes throwing together. The goal of such models is pure communication, when a picture is worth a thousand word email. I really like the more textual browser-based modelling tools that are starting to appear for these purposes:
http://www.websequencediagrams.com/ yuml.me... [Continue Reading]
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Rules Fest 2010
Just a heads-up that Rules Fest 2010 is taking place in San Jose, CA, October 11-14. There's a great collection of technical speakers, so we hope to see you there. More details on what we will be doing as we get closer to the event...
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Customer Service Fail
Another amusing, but rather sad, failure of elementary business rules, this time in billing and customer service: threatening customers to discontinue their service unless they send you a cheque for $0.00! It would appear that this is more common than I would have thought... The power of the Internet at work: link from Gizmodo.
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How many rules?
Recently I have been working flat-out on design improvements to make Rule Studio more scalable. I'm pushing for an improvement of an order of magnitude or more in Rule Studio's ability to manage large numbers of rules within the workspace, particularly on 32-bit machines, where JVM heap-size is constrained. This is speculative long-term research and development that is not yet planned for a release. To help guide this effort it would be useful... [Continue Reading]
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Quote of the Day
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
Robert A. Heinlein
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Bye, bye ILOG logo you served us well!
The IBM facilities team has completed the rebranding of the main ILOG office in Gentilly (a Paris suburb). For posterity here is the last known picture of the ILOG logo!
Chabane Hamma, who leads the Samples and Tutorials team, saving good bye to the logo... Photos by Albin Carpentier.
The new IBM logo that welcomes visitors.
The old logo in place, as visible from the peripherique (Paris ring-road). Photo from Google Maps.
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Limerick of the Day
"A programmer started to cuss Because getting to sleep was a fuss As he lay there in bed Looping 'round in his head was: while(!asleep()) sheep++"
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Quote of the Day
"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect."
Edward Teller
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Quote of the Day
We all have to decide how we are going to fail.. by not going far enough or by going too far.
Sumner Redstone
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Quote of the Day
"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
Bill Gates
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