Posted in code on May 31st, 2007
IntelliJ’s support of JBoss-rules in no way compares to Eclipse, but even that isn’t enough to get me off my butt and move from my fave. That said, I created a semi-literate FileType for the drl files so that IntelliJ will recognize them and you will get a decent amount of syntax highlighting. Is it [...]
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Posted in code on May 30th, 2007
I have to admit that I don’t write as much Java as I used to. I spend a ton of time in design, using UML tools (Visual Paradigm is my favorite). Lately, I’ve spent some time digging into the JBoss-rules framework – really getting to understand it and draw comparisons between it and JESS, CLIPS [...]
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Posted in Best Practices on May 17th, 2007
eCommerce and Revenue-Generating Site stakeholders often worry about traffic; they think that if they don’t get enough they aren’t going to make any money. There is a little truth to that, but more important is getting good quality traffic before you go after lots of users. If you get 10,000 hits per week with a [...]
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Posted in Best Practices on May 6th, 2007
The Role of Technology in eCommerce ECommerce enterprises are not “technology” or “software” companies. While more modern technologies can and do offer massive benefits to them, the business as a whole does not exist for any specific technology, good or mediocre, as long as it can further its mission and goals. The technology departments in [...]
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