21st Jun, 2008, 11:22am
Rapid Web Service Integration Slides
slides here for those interested RapidWSinRails.swf RapidWSinRails.pdf
Archive for June, 2008
17th Jun, 2008, 11:07pm
hat in the ring
Well, I’ve just gone & thrown my hat in the ring to speak at BarCampBelfast, if anybody actually wants to here my proposed talk, it’ll be 5 slides I prepared for the first Mobile Monday Belfast, I prepared two sets, one business & one techie, Mobile Monday got the business slides 
11th Jun, 2008, 9:03pm
Resigned & Signed
Today I resigned my post as Head of Technology for SLA Mobile and signed a contract with atg where I’ll be workin the eStara team.
9th Jun, 2008, 11:22am
Pithy Rules for Technology Consulting
8th Jun, 2008, 10:48am
jBPM Community Day
Friday 6th June 2008 was the first jBPM Community Day, held in the Guinness Store House in Dublin, this is practically on my doorstep, and as we’ve been looking at jBPM for some pilots recently, I couldn’t not go.
The speakers on the day were Tom Baeyens, Joram Barrez, Paul Browne and Koen Aers. It was great to hear that jBPM is being used in all sort of environments, in some very large projects and most of all the direction of the project from the project leaders. It was also good to hear about local take up in & around Ireland (there were guests from all over Europe, including some Americans based in Budapest)
Tom & the rest of the team are taking their collective experience in the BPM and building the Process Virtual Machine, and state engine that can be used to execute processes described in many different languages, starting with jPDL, but already on the horizon are BPEL and Seam PageFlow. The PVM looks set to be the definitive state machine for process management, with plugin interfaces for persistence, task management etc.
It was a great day, many thanks to all of those who contributed to the smooth running & interesting content, and selection of a great venue!
[It’s only just struck me what a great venue, making a product that’s as consistently good as Guinness requires clearly documented processes, which soon becomes clear when you take the tour of the Store House that describes the process involved in taking the raw ingredients and producing something as fine as a smooth pint of Guinness]
Questions for the jBPM Community/Things I’m going to try and answer over the coming weeks
- Where’s the absolute beginners guide? [or, as this is in a community, where can I start one and what needs to be in it? ]
- What are the requirements/guidelines on replacing the jbpm-console or integrating functionality into your own app?
- What are the interface points/techniques in PVM for other languages?
- Drools/jBPM – what are the integration scenarios?
- populate Drools with data/beans in a node of a process?
- do both things operate independently?
- Integration with authentication systems? (AD/LDAP instead of SQL based accounts)