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fo...
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As I write the last of my event summary reports and follow up action items, I am
now officially putting a bow on the TIBCO user conference (TUCON 2008)
What a madhouse. I was accountable for the TIBCO Analyst Summit (TIBCOs first
ever), two days
TIBCO has a very successful BPM product, iProcess, that is compliant with
standards such as OMG BPMN and WFMC XPDL, has a powerful new AJAX-driven Forms
capability, and is generally considered to be one of the leaders of the pack
when it comes to cur
Next week sees the TIBCO User Group, TUCON, take place in San Francisco. The
schedule includes a number of CEP-related topics; here is a handy cheat-sheet
for some of them [*1]:
Weds 30 Apr, 16.00-16.50: Open the Door to Event Processing
Track: Int
Paul Haley has posted a clear and easy-to-read look at the symbiotic nature of
analytics and business rules in the field of “Decision Management”.
Furthermore, he goes on to describe a run-time merger of these concepts under
the term
The recent InfoQ conference in London had some interesting banking sessions on
high volume / low latency (implying event processing). These included Merrill
Lynch on monitoring messages, and Betfair on their online betting system. One
can be pretty s
Interesting to see a fascinating blog entry by Roeland Loggen on Future
Patterns of BPM Technology which showed CEP as a solution to semi-structured
processes, between Straight Through Processing for full structured processes and
Agent technology a
There is increasing hope for a conceptual “IT supercollision” around
the corner. From Business Architecture and Business Modeling, via Model-Driven
Engineering and its mappings to BPM (primarily for human-oriented workflow) and
Business R
Whilst at DAMA last week I managed to miss the Teradata talk on “active
data warehouses“. Luckily James Taylor blogged comprehensively on the
talk, and although it seems Teradata declined to make the presentation available
to attendees, I
TIBCO presented [*1] at this year’s DAMA conference on Semantic Complex
Event Processing[*2]; for the rest of the time, with upwards of 10 (!) parallel
tracks, it was always easy to find something of interest being presented. Some
CEP perspecti
I am pleased to report that no blood was spilled in the latest vendor
get-together at the OMG Washington meeting [*1].
Some of the interesting comments from the presentations were:
“80% of [implementation] work is new event sources” - cl
I bought
my camera
from
Amazon (a
Canon
SD900)
years ago
and when
they
launched
the Eye-Fi
based on
my past
buying pre
ferences
they sent
me a
special
offer for
the Eye-Fi
Wireless
SD Card.
Otherwise
I would
never have
found this
very cool
little
device.
The Eye-Fi
is a SD
Card and
Wi-Fi
combo [...
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Today
Plazes CEO
Felix
Petersen
gave us a
peek at
iPlazer,
the
upcoming
iPhone
client for
the geo-ta
gging
social
networking
site. The
app will
be
available
when Apple
’s
official
App Store
launches
on June
10th.
Plazes has
been
around for
a while -
it was one
of the
first
companies
to be
covered
[...]
OK, some
women
are
concerned
about
sexism in
IT.
Here&rsquo
;s what I
think.
First, I
do not
like when
people
curse in
public
.
Not just
because
that there
are women
in the
audience,
but
it’s
just plain
wrong.Seco
nd, there
is v
Novalys is
once again
holding
their
annual
survey of
PowerBuild
er users.
Once you
complete
the
survey, yo
u’ll
be allowed
to access
the
results of
the survey
for the
last
several ye
ars.Origin
al Entry
Charlie
Nesson
begins by
saying
that the
morning
had a
negative
cast to
it. It was
about
fear. But
he was
uplifted
when
Yochai and
Jimbo got
to what
Wikipedia
is and
could be.
[Live
blogging.
Full of
errors and
omissions.
Posted
unedited
and unspel
lchecked.]
He asks
the
general
counsel of
...
Sun has
launched
the
"Student
Reviews
Contest":
it is
reserved
to
students
that are
regularly
enrolled
in an educ
ational
institute
and would
like to
write a
review
about Open
Solaris or
NetBeans
6.1. The
prizes are
small
($250
grand
prize
and...
and much
to my
surprise,
the public
beta of
the flash
player 10
is
out.
I knew
this would
be coming
before too
long, but
didnt
realize
that it
would be
out so qui
ckly.
; This new
version is
filled
with lots
of new
features
aimed at
allowing
Apple's
WWDC
conference
has always
had a
really
high
attendance
rating and
has been
sold to
capacity
many times
in the
past, but
this is
the first
time
they've
ever sold
out all
space
before the
conference
started.
Is the
iPhone the
cause?
I’m
giving a p
resentatio
n on
“The
Politics
of Metrics
” in
Rochester
on May
15th, for
a seminar
being
organized
by the IT
Metrics
and Produc
tivity
Institute;
it’s
an updated
version of
the presen
tation I
gave in
Orlando a
month or
two ago.
You should
attend in
person, if
possible,
so you can
not only
hear my
[...]
I’m
excited to
announce
the launch
of a new
site,
Bugpedia.
Creating
the Enerjy
Index
threw out
a lot of f
ascinating
data and I
was
frustrated
that I did
n’t
really
have
anywhere
to put it.
For
example,
if you
follow
this blog
you’
ll have
seen Rich&
#8217;s
post on
our
analysis
of
Cyclomatic
Complexity
. Well,
just [...]
Sean
McGrath
gave the
closing pr
esentation
at XTech
2008 last
week in
Dublin. He
quoted
from Jorge
Luis
Borges's
The
Analytical
Language
of John
Wilkins.
Wilkins
was an
17th
Century
English
scientist.
(He is
also one
of the
characters
in Neal St
ephenson's
Quicksilve
r.)
Wilkins
designed a
Philosophi
cal
Language
in which
the
letters of
each
word give
not just
the sound
but also
the
specific
meaning of
the word.
It would
have been
an amazing
accomplish
ment had
it worked.
Borges su
Among the
many
reasons
I’ve
been
posting so
infrequent
ly was
wedding
planning.
My own.
Last
Saturday,
Stacy and
I
conducted
our
ceremony
at the
Hillside
Club in
Berkeley.
Ryan
posted a
set of 16
beautiful
photos
from the
event.
To
be truly f
orthcoming
, Stacy
and I were
already te
chnically
married,
having
done a San
Francisco
City Hall
[...]
I recently
picked up
Ron Paul&#
8217;s
“The
Revolution
: A Manife
sto”
.
I’ve
made my
way
through
the first
two
chapters
which do a
great job
of simply
explaining
the
problems
with our g
overnment.
A few of
the
highlights
include,
for
example,
the 1996
election
won by the
Republican
party:
The
Contract
with
America
was
typical
[...]
As I write
the last
of my
event
summary
reports
and follow
up action
items, I
am now
officially
putting a
bow on the
TIBCO user
conference
(TUCON
2008)
What a
madhouse.
I was acco
untable
for the
TIBCO
Analyst
Summit
(TIBCO?s
first
ever), two
days of
the
Business O
ptimizatio
n track of
presentati
ons
(combining
[...]
Apparently
Lucas is
up to his
old tricks
again .
How sad .
I was
hoping
that
Spielberg
might
diminish
Lucas?
influence
on the
film .
*sigh*
I?ll
probably
go see it
anyway. On
the upside
Iron Man
was surpri
singly
good and
Prince
Caspian
looks to
be good...
(read
more)
At the end
of this
week, I
will no
longer be
employed
by BEA
Systems.
It has
been a
great 4
years
working at
BEA, and u
ndoubtedly
the
highlight
of my
career
thus far.
I have
enjoyed
the opport
unity to
write for
the BEA
developer
community,
and to
lead
Tooling at
BEA these
last 3
years.
According
to
Forrester
research
wider
handset av
ailability
, improved
network
coverage
and new
pricing
models are
going to
foster
rapid
adoption
of mobile
internet
services
in
Europe.By
2013 they
predict
that the
number of
people
using the
Internet
via mobile
phone will
be 125
million -
three
times toda
y's
figure.
Some
countries,
such as
the UK,
will adopt
even faste
r. Im
proved
handset
devices,
such as
the Iphone
2.0,
improved
networks,
such as
3.5G,
better
network
coverage,
and fl
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