Silverlight/Flex/JavaFX versus AJAX

Last week a big announcement came from Microsoft regarding their new Web platform dubbed Silverlight. This is Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flex platform and serves as an extension of the .NET framework. Today Sun announced their competitor to both platforms, dubbed JavaFX. So why are all these companies eager to make a Flash replacement (or [...]

Thoughts on Business Rules Engines

Developing business software for specific industries can often be very difficult if the business process has not be properly analyzed from end to end. Without a proper analysis, it is difficult to come up with an effective design that won’t require a lot of downstream changes. Much of the important analysis often happens during the [...]