I am deeply engrossed at present in a new book, published at the beginning of this year, called 'Intelligent Systems - Principles, Paradigms and Pragmatics' by Robert Schalkoff, and published by Jones & Bartlett.   Rather strangely, I note the copyright...

So there I am doing what a geek does best - sitting in Cafe Nero on Tottenham Court Road in the centre of London on a Saturday afternoon, killing time while waiting to meet up with my daughter, and doing a little coding to pass the time when someone (his...

This is the third and final part of a three-part series, as follows:Part 1: Situating the Business Rules Engine Part 2: Backward Chaining: the 'Simple Name' pattern Part 3: Backward Chaining: the ‘Bound Variable' pattern In Part 2 we looked at how...

This is the second of a three-part series, as follows:Part 1: Situating the Business Rules Engine Part 2: Backward Chaining: the 'Simple Name' pattern Part 3: Backward Chaining: the ‘Bound Variable' pattern In part one of this three-part series, I...

This is the first of a three-part series, as follows:Part 1: Situating the Business Rules Engine Part 2: Backward Chaining: the 'Simple Name' pattern Part 3: Backward Chaining: the ‘Bound Variable' pattern Karl posted on forward and backward chaining...

My report on day five (the last day) of the October Rules Fest 2009 is at: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/10/30/135901.aspx ...

My report on day four of the October Rules Fest 2009 is at: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/10/30/135855.aspx ...

My report on day three of the October Rules Fest 2009 is at: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/10/28/135780.aspx ...

I’m at day two of the October Rules Conference at the Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas. My report on the day's processings is at: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/10/27/135756.aspx ...

Thought it might be fun to try the new Live Writer plug-in Polaroid Picture find at http://bit.ly/1mrYyW ...

Sorry, not cracked the problems listed at the end of my last 64 bit dev blog. But added a new one. My BizTalk project required the reading of data from an Excel spreadsheet – don’t ask…. Now previously I have used:  the Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0...

Over the last few months I have made the move to 64 bit – Windows 7 RTM on my laptop and Windows 2008 standard server with hyper-v on my dev box. I’m also running 64 bit Office 2010 and a number of other 64 bit goodies. But it is in the area of development...

Before we had Azure and the various bits and pieces that became Azure at PDC 2008 Microsoft had a number of disparate groups  working on various ‘cloudy’ projects. these included BizTalk Services, Red dog, Mesh and the Live framework to name a few. Then...

  IDG News Service —  Microsoft on Tuesday released technology previews of SQL Azure, the database for its Azure cloud infrastructure platform, and SQL Server StreamInsight, its entry in the CEP (complex event processing) arena. Microsoft issues...

As previously mentioned I have lived with Beta and RC before arriving at Release. Downside has been the re-builds. The upside and this is Goodie #2 is the ability to use VHD’s mounted as ‘real’ hard drives has been a saviour! I have setup a number of...

I’ve been living with Windows 7 for sometime – through Beta, RC and now Release (Thanks to MSDN). I have to admit it is a much better option than Vista. Furthermore I’m now running the 64 bit with now driver issues. Now my setup is not your standard run...

The community technology preview (CTP) was made available on Tuesday, along with a preview of a SQL Server driver for building PHP applications for the Azure platform. The Azure Services Platform, first announced at a developer conference last year,...

BizTalk Server 2009 standard edition has a two CPU limit on it so you would think even if it was on a box with four CPU’s you’d only need two licenses. Not so you’d need four!! Read here a quote from the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 pricing and licensing...

Last Monday, Microsoft used the TechEd keynote to announce their plans to include a Complex-Event Processing (CEP) engine in SQL Server 2008 R2.   This article attempts to explain CEP from the perspective of a long-time user of BizTalk Server...

NewsFlash...Microsoft today announced their long-awaited entry into the Complex Event Processing market.   The press release is at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/May09/05-11TechEd09PR.mspx.   The news was also announced...

Following on from the news about Microsoft's CEP engine, Richard Seroter attended yesterday's TechEd session on the new engine and has blogged very detailed notes.   See http://seroter.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/teched-2009-day-2-session-notes-cep-first-look/. ...

Following on from the news about Microsoft's CEP engine, Richard Seroter attended yesterday's TechEd session on the new engine and has blogged very detailed notes.   See http://seroter.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/teched-2009-day-2-session-notes-cep-first-look/. ...

I dealt with an interesting, if arcane, issue today at a client's site. The client is in the process of deploying an early version of a BizTalk application to their test environment for the first time.   The test environment is hosted by...

Over on the ILOG blog, Chris Berg called out Andrew Siemer’s post at http://geekswithblogs.net/AndrewSiemer/archive/2009/03/30/ilog-rules-for-.net-3.0-ndash-quick-overview.aspx.   I thought I’d post some observations by way of a response. See...

My colleague, the ‘Arch Hacker’, forwarded an email to me this evening from Kenton Price.   Kenton had noticed some peculiar behaviour using the Microsoft Business Rules Engine.   Here are the pertinent extracts from Kenton’s report:...