real-life jBPM proof of concept using SeeWhy

07 Monday Apr 2008

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Jorrem Barrez’s blog has a brilliant demo (video and slides) of a proof of concept that presents JBoss jBPM (JBoss’ Business Process Management tool) and SeeWhy being used to provide a BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) capability for jBPM (Small steps with big feet » Blog Archive » Some real-life jBPM action: PoC jBPM Orchestration). Jorrem appears to have worked version 3.2 of SeeWhy and taken advantage of the jBPM Integration Guide. Its pleasing to see that they thought it was well documented, the good news is that his proof of concept will come together even more easily with some of the forthcoming features.

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Event Processing (CEP) – overview from EBizQ

07 Monday Apr 2008

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The Enterprise Business IT blog/online journal have posted a number of articles and webinars looking at Complex Event Processing (CEP), Event Driven Architecture and related areas, the links are :

The EBizQ pages link to material by influential thinkers/analysts in the area such as Roy Schultze (Gartner) and one of IBM’s Lead Architect’s Opher Etzion.  If you’re looking for a basic handle on Event Processing particularly within the context of more mainstream business i.e. SOA (Service Orientated Architecture), BPM (Business Process Management), BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) issues then these links make a good starting point although although the this certainly doesn’t tell the whole story as it doesn’t address the super high volume players such as Streambase and the likes of my employer SeeWhy where we provide Event Driven BI (Business Intelligence) which has a natural affinity to BAM. However EBizQ does touch upon Event Driven BI here.

 

NB – I’m expressing my personal views rather than those of SeeWhy here.

Stereogum Presents…

07 Monday Apr 2008

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 Stereogum have coordinated several free tribute albums to major artists by compiling covers of significant albums such as REM’s Automatic For the People.  Now Stereogum have pulled together a tribute to Bjork’s post called Enjoyed: A Tribute to Björk’s Post (go here for more information). Post included the hits ‘”IT’s Oh So Quiet” and “Hyperballard”.

 

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Sound Opinions with Butch Vig on audio quality

04 Friday Apr 2008

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Following on from my blog earlier in the week about sound quality and different media (blog entry here)  Sound Opinions are talking with Butch Vig (successful producer and sometime member of Garbage) about this very subject.  The show can be listened to online, through US radio syndication or as a podcast which will be made available next week.

Paul Weller news

03 Thursday Apr 2008

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News is starting to filter out from PaulWeller.com about  Paul’s activities recently. Apparently part of the problem was a result of V2 being purchased by Universal.  But the big news is:

  • UK tour in May
  • 22 Dreams out in June as a double album (track listing has been announced) and will be streamed in its entirety from the website in due course.
  • Single on May 26th which includes collaboration with Noel Gallagher
  • Web redesign

 

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More Delays stuff as the new album is soon to be released.

02 Wednesday Apr 2008

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order the album from Amazon here Following last year’s brilliant EP, Love Made Visible (see my review here) as previously blogged (here) the Delays have a new album coming out.  The preparations for its release are well underway for their new album Everything’s the Rush with new videos on their You Tube Channel (YouTube – DelaysWorld’s Channel ) and a new site for the album http://www.jointherush.com/, plus another UK tour which I’m sure will be top notch (checkout my photos on Flickr from a previous tour) – and yes I’ve got tickets.

 

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Robin Williams turns BBC debate into own standup comedy

02 Wednesday Apr 2008

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Robin Williams in finest form ends up ‘hijacking’ a BBC debate with a bit of stand up comedy.  The good thing is the Beeb kindly kept the footage and posted it on their site – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7325278.stm

 

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Fuel Prices Graph Update

02 Wednesday Apr 2008

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The fuel prices graph has been updated with the March figures. So the graph now looks like:

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The raw data in an excel spreadsheet raw data

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Sony/BMG Under Investigation for Software Piracy

31 Monday Mar 2008

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Various press organisations (including Wired.com here) that Sony BMG have been found to have a substantial level of pirated software within the organisation.  If this is the case then they seriously need to get their house into order before they continue to support the RIAA’s pursuit of downloaders.  What is almost as bad is the article indicates that Sony/BMG asked the press to keep quiet as well.

It is kind of ironic that the record company’s parent Sony invest so much in trying to prevent the very thing that appears to have happened here.

 

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Lot of ‘chatter’ from Led Zeppelin

28 Friday Mar 2008

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There seems to be a lot of news coming from the remaining original members of Led Zeppelin at the moment with Jimmy Page suggesting that last years O2 gig performed to commemorate Ahmet Ertghun could see a DVD release. John Paul Jones has reportedly suggested that the band may even return to the studio to record a new album. Robert Plant has su8ggested that they may perform live again, although there has been a lot of speculation and rumour about this for some months now.  If we’re lucky then perhaps all three suggestions may come to occur in 2008.