RenewCert - Renew Expired Certificates
It's been just over a year when I deployed the RuleManager with a ClickOnce certificate. Today it expired. Visual Studio 2005 would suggest to generate a new certificate file, however none of the...
View Article.NET SOA BizTalk: BizTalk Tools and guidelines
Kishore Dharanikota has created a nice list of tools and guidelines for BizTalk developers and designers .NET SOA BizTalk: BizTalk Tools and guidelines. The Rule Manager is mentioned in the Development...
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External function calls
The latest release of the Rule Manager allows to import external functions into the business vocabulary. As a little exercise I tried to get the current weather condition for a zipcode (maybe I can...
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Mercurial branching
It takes time to get used to a new source control management system, but Mercurial HG visualization sure helps. Branching default branch to 1.5.1 release and 1.6.1 release. Look at these rail...
View ArticleWatin => Selenium ?
I've been using Watin for quite some browser automation projects. But it seems that Watin is a bit dead in the water. No Chrome support. No Firefox 4 or higher support. It also seems to be an heroic...
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Notes on GSM USB dongles on linux.
Analyzing Huawei GSM donglesIn the last few months I've been writing drivers for Huawei GSM dongles. In particular to be used in combination with the Android RIL (Radio Interface Layer). In general...
View ArticleRemoving 'uninstallable' Packages from Windows10
I assume you'll have to some admin skill knowledge.So how do you install all these pre-installed windows apps that are on your new laptop?'Add Remove' programs only allows you to report a problem. Well...
View Articlemake files explained if you did not grew up with them
Here is a nice post on how to define makefiles for a go project and actually teaching you some makefile constructs:https://sahilm.com/makefiles-for-golang/
View Articlexdg-open; vscode acts as default application for html
Opening html files stopped launching the browser, but launched the vscode application.> xdg-mime query default text/htmlcode-url-handler.desktopIt turned out a new handler was configuredcheck your...
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Decision Tree Editor
In previous posts I have mentioned the usage of Decision Trees or Decision Tables to represent business rules.Acumen Business has developed an editor to create such Decision Tree rules. See the video...
View ArticleWhat is missing in WWF rules
There is an interesting discussion going on how WWF rules is different from a BRMS solution. Although some comparisions are more related to the comparison with QuickRules.NET, there are quite a few...
View ArticleHow to understand a large ruleset?
Peter Lin has a very valid concern :My main caution to users is that no matter how nice the writing part is, howdoes the tool make it easier to maintain and understand a large ruleset? Does ithave the...
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Business Rules for the Windows Workflow Foundation
If you like to see the latest version of the RuleManager with support for Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation, you can request to see the product in action at the Business Rules Forum. Fill in the...
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Importing Biztalk rules and export to Windows Workflow Foundation
The new Rule Manager (version 1.4.0.50) is released!With just a few mouse clicks, the Rule Manager from Acumen Business imports a BizTalk rule policy and export the rules to the Windows Workflow...
View Article13 years ago
Found my old research paper from 1994 "An object-oriented approach to knowledge representation in a biomedical domain". Looked like they scanned the contents of the original paper.It's pretty outdated....
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Rule Validation Video
The Rule Manager will soon be enhanced with a new feature that allows the Interactive Rule Map as a Rule Debugger. See a video here: Rule Validation Video. It almost became an action movie :).This is...
View ArticleWebCast about Windows Workflow Foundation Rules
Tomorrow, there is a free webcast by Kavita Kamani (Microsoft) about using the rules engine that is part of Windows Workflow Foundation. You can register for this event here.Microsoft's rules engine is...
View ArticleSuppress “A first chance exception of type…” Messages in VS 2005
When writing an API framework, it's good practice to throw appropriate framework exceptions. I have several extended application exceptions in my rule engine framework. When executing all unit tests,...
View ArticleRule Manager 1.5.0.x is released
The new Rule Manager (1.5.0.x) is released! There are many new features and enhancements. Here are some of the highlights:Rule Validation; in the interactive rule map you can let the rules engine...
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Microsoft XPS format
During a web demonstration of the Rule Manager I had to go for a full OS reboot. Not very pretty for a product demonstration. What happened? Not really sure, but it seems that the latest version of...
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