Archive for July, 2007
JBoss Drools 4.0 Released
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 | Programming, Work, brms, computer science, drools, gwt, jboss, opensource, rules | No Comments
JBoss Drools 4.0 has just been released. We are really proud of what we have done here. We believe that we now have the best and most powerful declarative rule language, bar none; commercial or open source. The Rule Flow is excellent and I really enjoyed updating the Conway’s Game of Life to Rule Flow; sub Rule Flows and milestone support will be coming in a point release soon. The BRMS has long been requested and we put a lot of effort into the ajax based design. The Eclipse improvements for the debug points and guided editor should help reduce learning curves, opening us to new audiences. Of course performance is now much better, especially for complex rules and the new Sequential Mode should be very popular with decision services.
Enjoy 
The Drools Team
Mark Proctor, Michael Neale, Edson Tirelli, Kris Verlaenen, Fernando Meyer
http://blog.athico.com
My Books arrived
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 | Programming, Work, computer science, jboss, opensource, rules, university | 3 Comments
My books from amazon arrived (with nice gifts from New York redhaters) yesterday. I spend about 2 hours reading some random pages and I can drop some lines about:
The IA book, I studied with the same book at university. so I just ordered to get the new 2002 version, but the mother… nice seller sent me the outdated 95’s version.
Principles of the Business Rule Approach, this book is a nice introduction to business rules, it explains all concepts in the natural way, some step-by-step topics are very interesting to figure out the more complicated rules concepts.
Jess in Action - that’s another book which you must have in your library, but don’t seize at it (try drools instead)
Expert Systems: Principles and Programming - That’s certainly the most advanced book I’ve ordered, so I must dive/read/assimilate more to write a good review.
Interesting links for today
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 | Java, Programming, Work, brms, computer science, jboss, language, opensource, rules, university | No Comments
Open source JBoss Rules gains speed
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/16/jboss-rules_1.html
JBoss also extends business rules engine to nonprogrammers, adds MVEL language support
Essencial Drools blog reading
http://markproctor.blogspot.com/2007/07/essential-drools-blog-reading.html
My IDE through the years
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 | IDE, Mac, Programming, computer science, language, linux, operating systems, university | No Comments
Today, after read something about the Kawa IDE, I tried to remember these I’ve used through the years.
- Turbo Pascal - late 1997
- Turbo C++ - 98/99
- DJGPP - late 99
- Emacs - 2000 - C++
- Kawa - 2001 - Java
- Netbeans- 2002/2003
- Eclipse - 2003/2006
- Visual Studio - 2006 - Yes I got a project in C#
- IDEA intellij + textmate - 2007
Maybe I missed something, but it’s just to get an overview.