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When you work from home, it can be difficult to keep work and personal life from blending into one big mess. Work demands bleed into every waking hour. Friends and family, assuming you’re not really busy, invite you out to lunch or ask you to help with
New editors for Rule, Task, Decision, Definitions support a single screen editing interface with * Unlimited undo-redo support * Assisted typing and Intellisense * Complete keyboard support for building complex expressions * IDE like expression building,
Having just wrapped up the European Business Rules Conference (see my previous posts), I noticed that some misinformation was provided at EBRC around sequential and inferencing execution of business rules. Sadly the misinformation was provided by a vendor
I have been thinking about the response I got from David Campbell to my posting on his CEP article. In his comment David discussed the difference between using a business rules engine in CEP (Complex Event Processing) and using business rules more general
BI stands for Business Intelligence, which to some will sound suspiciously similar to Groucho’s famous comment. But in reality BI is more to do with providing the right “Business Information” to people who need it (i.e. business analysts), and there
Abstract: Recently developed production systems enable users to specify an appropriate ordering or a clustering of join operations. Various efficiency heuristics have been used to optimize production rules manually. The problem addressed in this paperisho
There are many reasons to let geeks work the way they want to work. Today they work in every industry. They are the knowledge base, blood and sweat equity of many businesses. They work harder than most. They work longer than most. Their job isn’t a sepa
Consider an [arbitrary] piece of code. It's indoors, it's well behaved, and you can be proud of it. What is it about that code that you like? Is it elegant? Is it clever? Does it enable something? How would you measure the value of code?
OPEN SOURCES « Community development is business development | Open Sources Home | Open Source SOA in Japan » January 25, 2007 Selling open source just keeps getting easier Filed under: Open Source One way to know that the open source market is maturing
I've been talking with a range of open source vendors lately about the scalability of their business models. It's clear that an open source model can easily get you north of $10M in revenues, with $100M just around the corner. But does a 100% open source
Like I wrote earlier, it’s frustrating to learn a new language when you don’t get to use it straight away. So I’ve come up with 10 creative ways that will get you started today with making big money (or fame) with your newly acquired Ruby skills
I got a phone call from my father the other day. "Oh," I thought immediately, "he's probably calling to finally apologize for failing to attend that basketball game I played at in fourth grade." But no, I was once again wrong. He was calling to pitch his
In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It's equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause
Physical space matters. It’s easier to be productive, creative and happy at work in a colourful, organic, playful environment than in a grey, linear, boring one.
How do people become professional programmers? Many people go the "traditional" path through a computer science or software engineering education and from there into professional programming work.
This is a collection of methods and strategies to make income from an Open Source project while keeping it thriving and freely available. The methods take into account project brand strength, and the real opportunities available while owning your project'
The first time you try to fill an open position, if you’re like most people, you place some ads, maybe browse around the large online boards, and get a ton of resumes.
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Top 10 Best Presentations Ever Sarah and I were talking about great presentations we’d seen or heard about and she came up with an idea for a Top 10 list. Here’s our take on the Top 10 Best Presentations Ever (in no particular order…and if you have
iBiz is an easy to use time-billing and invoicing application. It integrates with iCal and Address Book, offers tax support, easily generates custom invoices and does all data saving behind the scenes for you. This is the most intuitive time-billing appli
This document comes out of a course I recently taught a at the INSEAD business school on how to create, evaluate and improve business ideas. Think of it as a two page summary of a 4 week MBA course.
The main reason IT people are unhappy at work is bad relations with management, often because geeks and managers have fundamentally different personalities, professional backgrounds and ambitions.
7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail I’m not one to believe that we’re in a Bubble 2.0 or anything like that (aren’t we always bubbular?), but here are a few ideas about why some of the web apps out there fail. 1. Focus on social instead of personal.
A young man comes to town. He is reasonably good looking, has a little money in his pocket. He finds it easy to talk to women. He doesn't speak much about his past, but it is clear that he spent a lot of time in a soulless big company.