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Decision Services in CEP?
One of the more obvious up-and-coming IT “best practices” is the area of “decision management” – as evangelised by James Taylor at Smart Enough Systems – which postulates that separating and managing decisions is as imp
Posted: Oct. 8, 2008 11:13 PM
BPMI TT 08: CEP augmenting BPMS for agility
… was the catchy snappy hip punchy title of our contribution to this year’s BPMI (aka OMG) Think Tank 2008’s RoundTable sessions. These are used to get feedback from end-users, consultants and indeed other vendors on a variety of is
Posted: Oct. 7, 2008 11:23 AM
Update on rule representations
Jim Sinur, newly returned to the Gartner camp, just made an interesting post on rule representations. As TIBCO is attending the OMG and W3c rule standards meetings this week, we’re probably in a good position to critique Jim’s view (and m
Posted: Sep. 26, 2008 12:07 AM
TIBCO BusinessEvents 3.0
… has hit the newswires [*1,2] along with an IDC comment that TIBCO BusinessEvents is “the undisputed CEP leader, with a market share of 40.2 percent”. TIBCO BusinessEvents version 3 has been already been in the hands of customers f
Posted: Sep. 22, 2008 02:21 PM
Gartner and EPTS4: Postscript
So “Event Processing Week” is over. We had 2 days of Gartner Event Processing conference, 2 days of Event Processing Technical Society, and a last day covering EPTS Business and Adrian Paschke’s DoReMePat EU R&D Project submissi
Posted: Sep. 21, 2008 01:27 AM
EPTS4: time for CEP Standards?
The last sessions on the last general day for EPTS4 covered… standards! Chris Ferris, who leads IBM’s Standards group, presented a background on why standards are important. His main point was that standards can persist much longer than y
Posted: Sep. 20, 2008 11:30 PM
EPTS4: Research, an academic perspective
The next sessions from EPTS4 covered some academic research projects. Prof Adrian Paschke (newly promoted to Berlin Uni) covered RuleML, Reaction RuleML, and the related standards of W3C RIF and PRR, then Alex from Betfair covered the Prova project
Posted: Sep. 20, 2008 10:42 PM
EPTS4: The Future, from the Vendors
EPTS4 day 2 started with a a keynote by Susan Urban of Texas Tech Uni on a Roadmap for Research Directions. Susan comes from the active database world and was talking about fun stuff like distributed event processing agents and so forth. Susan emphas
Posted: Sep. 20, 2008 10:20 AM
EPTS4: Small, big, and bigger Use Cases
Pedro Bizarro (Univ of Coimbra in Portugal) reported on the EPTS Use Case workgroup he co-chaired with Dieter Gawlick (Oracle CQL author). Their penultimate use case questionnaire runs to 52 questions, which they think is more than sufficient (or as
Posted: Sep. 19, 2008 09:55 PM
EPTS4: Customers, all under control
Robert Almgren did the next keynote, with an excellent tutorial on Best Execution using CEP, and why the investment banks need it for things like market data analytics, smart order routing, and trading limit checks, and why equities will surely be fo
Posted: Sep. 19, 2008 08:19 PM

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Android’s Login Is Cool, But Is It Secure?
I’ve been hearing a lot about Google’s innovative login feature for the Android phone, but only saw it today for the first time (Loren Feldman, who recently did some video of one, sent a screenshot). Unlike other phones, which require a four digit number for unlocking, the Android simply puts nine dots arranged in a square on the touch screen, along with the words “draw pattern to unlock.” My understanding is that any pattern can be used as long as it touches at least fou
Oct. 13, 2008 02:07 AM
The Paperless Office: I CALLED IT!
In 2002, I wrote a lengthy response to Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker piece on The Social Life of Paper. Gladwell was addressing a recent book at the time, The Myth of the Paperless Office, and coming to the conclusion, with them, that all this gee-whiz computer technology is not leading to a paperless office, and paper is great, and computers aren’t so great, and hey, you kids, get off my lawn. Actually, he didn’t say, “hey, you kids, get off my lawn,” but I’v
Oct. 12, 2008 05:11 PM
Michelle Malkin, like her party, is out of touch
Michelle Malkin has some imagery that shows that there are people with evil imaginations about the Republican candidates, and if the threats are credible the Secret Service should prosecute them to the full extent of the law. If Governor Palin or Senator McCain were hurt or killed because we didn't take action now, it would be a national tragedy the country wouldn't recover from for a long time. (But does she really think Madonna is a physical threat to her candidate?) There's a world of differe
Oct. 12, 2008 03:41 PM
Visiting Japan. Part 1. Arrival
It’s my first time in this country, and I’m looking forward to new discoveries.   This week my wife and I are on vacation in Japan. Our friends Dora and Felix have arrived a day earlier. Dora runs a small but very reputable trav
Oct. 12, 2008 02:40 PM
Priest gave children hands-on ’sex lessons’
Bah, humbug...
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Some More Good SOA Business Blogs
I have now written a six part series on software community blogs. This has included some of our larger partners such as Oracle, TIBCO, and Software AG who maintain multiple blogs with a community.  I also covered the Agile Commons blog by our partner, Rally.  We have some other partners who have excellent individual blogs, or in the case of Infosys, a great collection of blogs. A list can be found in the right side of this blog. Here are three more of them. dynaTrace is a leader in lifecycl
Oct. 12, 2008 01:27 PM
In praise of computerized acrostics
Computers make crossword puzzles slightly easier, but they make acrostics do-able. Paper-based acrostics are as much fun as re-sorting pied type. Plus, since most of the fun of an acrostic is seeing sense emerge from mere letters, like ships resolving out of fog, solving them electronically removes the penalty for wrong intuitions. And, for me, and I guess for most who indulge in the occasional acrostic, the fun part is watching your brain see words that your reason entirely missed. It feels as
Oct. 12, 2008 07:57 AM
Even Stephen Fry fails to get cloud computing
Stephen Fry recently published an article on cloud computing. Like many others he got it completely wrong and was describing nothing more than what the Internet is. Cloud computing is not the second coming. Leave Comment Related Entries: Cloud Bootcamp announced, learn what all the fuss is about Amazon's EC2 now with Windows dot.com bubble2.0 Upcoming online webinar - Flying through the clouds From deep within the bowels of SUN Time for VMWare to change its pricing model Amazon S3 s
Oct. 10, 2008 09:52 PM
Sins of Commissions
“A couple of years ago, I went into a big-box shoe store and bought a pair of sneakers. At the checkout counter, the cashier grabbed a can of that bogus silicone spray stores always try to up-sell you. It's supposed to make sneakers shiny and waterproof, but it doesn't seem to do anything.” From my latest Inc. column: Sins of Commissions My dad emailed to add: The same problem arises when you set measurable incentives (money for better test results) in educational policies
Oct. 10, 2008 05:34 PM
Suggest me a scripting language for blueMarine, Java compatible
I've said a lot of times that I don't like scripting languages, and in fact all of my work is currently done in Java. I see it as perfectly fitting my needs, from JME to JEE, through the Desktop. But...
Oct. 10, 2008 11:10 AM
Being right doesn't count for
Being right doesn't count for much if you can't persuade anyone of that fact.
Oct. 10, 2008 11:06 AM
Bash Scripts for working with ActionScript 3 in TextMate
I have switched over to using TextMate for some of my experimentations with ActionScript. I like how lightweight it is, its extensibility, command completion functionality, and ease of setting up new projects. I find it is perfect for quickly testing new code and ideas. I have put together a couple of bash scripts, which coupled with the ActionScript 3 and Flex TextMate bundles have made working in TextMate a little easier for me. The first script is called autocompile, which takes a class file
Oct. 9, 2008 02:41 PM
The Miller Device
The JavaScript language currently does not provide a good way to distinguish between objects and arrays. The typeof operator is broken: It identifies arrays as objects. Comparing a value's constructor property doesn't work because arrays created in a different frame will have a different constructor. There are do-it-yourself tests for arrayness, but they are complicated and unreliable. Mark Miller of The Google, by closely reading the ECMAScript standard, has discovered
Oct. 9, 2008 01:22 PM
Develop an iPhone App and beat the credit crunch !
From the press some of the initial iPhone apps have been getting, it seems that there are going to be quite a few Apple iPhone App Store millionaires this year ! So why not write your own and join the crowd ? Don't know Objective C or XCode - then get learning !  A nice resource is theiphonedevplace , which has many tutorial links now that Apple rescinded their NDA . So what you waiting for ? Get going - beat the credit crunch !      
Oct. 9, 2008 10:07 AM
Altova Online Training is back, improved, and still free
I am delighted to report that we have relaunched our Altova Online Training program today. We've used this hiatus of a few months to completely redesign our training program and incorporate all the feedback that we had received in the past. One of the key requests heard over and over again was that you wanted to be able to consume the training on your schedule and time, rather than having to sign up for a particular class and deal with available seats, time-zone issues, and fitting a 2-3h class
Oct. 9, 2008 09:02 AM
26 Hours at Sea: The Longest Posting in the History of Blogging
I've been to many interesting places, but nothing compares to my twenty-four hour visit to the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. I hope that you enjoy these pictures and videos. I would be overjoyed if you spotted someone you know in one of them. Incidentally, this is probably the longest posting in the history of blogging. It contains over 130 photos (I lost count) and five videos. You might question the wisdom of posting this many pictures. After all, I could create
Oct. 9, 2008 02:04 AM
Decision Services in CEP?
One of the more obvious up-and-coming IT “best practices” is the area of “decision management” – as evangelised by James Taylor at Smart Enough Systems – which postulates that separating and managing decisions is as important as managing business processes. In a “conventional event processing” or synchronous SOA world, this means separate “decision services” invoked to make important decisions during automated processes, or prior to BPMN
Oct. 8, 2008 11:13 PM
Mobile observation from the City
City of London that is...
Oct. 8, 2008 06:49 AM
Breaking Brooks’s Law
Fred Brooks’s law of ‘adding manpower to a late software project makes it later‘ is one most of us have tried to prove wrong…….and failed! I was at Agile 2008 and saw an interesting session, “Breaking Brooks’s Law” from Menlo Innovations, a Michigan based Java development company. They claimed to disprove this law and demonstrated their working environment and techniques that allowed them to do so. Although the presentation was only 45 minutes, we
Oct. 8, 2008 12:42 AM
Mashups for the People. You Betcha!
I laughed when I heard Sarah Palin say in last week's debate: “...and I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also” (this is straight from the CNN transcript). I laughed because it’s such overt “spin” to say you’re not going to answer what the moderator wants to hear. And, incidentally, it's exactly what the moderator wants to hear.But that’s beside the po
Oct. 7, 2008 02:08 PM
Smart, Deep Property Notifications in CLINQ v2.0
I haven't said much about CLINQ lately but that's mostly because we've been trying to get v2.0 ready to ship. We're nearly there, so I thought I would start by talking about one of the new features - smart property notifications
Oct. 7, 2008 09:15 AM
Is really LINQ the best option for a future Java query API?
My interview to Mike Card has triggered an intense discussion ongoing, on the pros and cons of considering LINQ as the best option for a future Java query API. You can follow the discussion here.
Oct. 7, 2008 07:49 AM
Flex Camp 360 NJ
File this under the better late than never... On September 26 and 27th, the folks who bring you Flex 360, put on a 2 day "Flex Camp" in New Jersery, which went over extremely well.  I was presenting on Testing with Fluint (formerl
Oct. 6, 2008 07:43 AM
Save the dates…
TechWave 2009 will be held at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 16-20.Original Entry
Oct. 3, 2008 10:17 AM
Running Toronto Marathon - 9/28/2008
A couple of years ago my friend Kaushal Vyas blogged about his first marathon experience. His blog entry started with some quotes from Lance Armstrong on his first marathon: “the hardest physical thing I have ever done. Even the worst days in the tours, nothing was as hard as that and nothing left me feeling the way I feel now in terms of sheer fatigue and soreness. I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier…”. It didn’t resonate with me at t
Oct. 1, 2008 12:28 AM
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