Not sure why I didn’t spot this before, but it appears that the NxBRE project (a .NET rule engine) has recently gone dormant. Cheers to David for all the work he put in over the years.
NxBRE Project Seems To Have Gone Dormant
September 1, 2009
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
Direct3D 11 Compute Shaders
August 4, 2009In other news, the upcoming Microsoft Direct3D 11 will feature compute shaders. If I read correctly, this is shipping in Windows 7. NVIDIA is already out promoting the compatibility with CUDA. Apparently, this technology is also sometimes called DX Compute.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
Farewell To Popfly
July 17, 2009The official Popfly blog states that the service is being shut down.
I’m a little sad to see a neat mashup tool get shut down. The integration with Silverlight and the ability to use the Popfly widgets on the Windows desktop were unique features.
I wish the best of luck to the Popfly team in their next endeavors.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
BizTalk Server 2009 Released
May 3, 2009If you were watching for it, some recent press confirms that BizTalk Server 2009 is now available.
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Windows Defender Potential Interaction with BizTalk BRE
March 28, 2009If you are running both BizTalk BRE and Windows Defender, you may want to note that the BizTalk 2006 R2 documentation at MSDN has been updated recently to take into account a recent interaction with Windows Defender. The issue with Windows Defender was corrected immediately, and the fix for affected machines is simply adding localhost back to the hosts file.
This is the 2006 R2 documentation, but I believe the issue could also affect 2004, 2006, and 2009 Beta.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
Multicore Video Cards (Again)
February 16, 2009I’ve previously posted on the topics of CUDA and Larrabee. I continue to be intrigued by the possibilities that open up as multi-core GPU programming becomes available. For applications that need many threads this should present interesting opportunities. Why bother struggling to run your parallel application in the meager 4 or 8 cores of your CPU when you can offload the work to 32 cores?
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
Cloud Rules
December 7, 2008These days, I tend to err on the side of saying less about what we are working on. In general, my current approach is one of only talking about products that have already shipped or topics where I can point towards published materials. That’s part of joining a new company and learning what you can and can’t talk about – so I err on the side of caution these days.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
Surveying the Platform Player Rules Acquisitions
December 7, 2008Jim Sinur of Gartner has a fairly recent post where he surveys the platform players and their recent acquisitions of rules technologies. Jim looks at each player and gives his opinions on their offerings, the technology they purchased, and what they will likely do with it.
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Thanks to the BRE survey participants
December 6, 2008Many thanks to those readers who participated in the Microsoft BizTalk BRE survey that Charles Young pointed to in his blog.
In the future, I will endeavor to link to such surveys from this blog as well.
Charles mentioned in his post that he would liked to have seen a more “forward looking” survey, but hasn’t (as yet) followed up with any clarifications.
If you missed the survey, or have comments regarding it – I would love to hear from you.
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Posted by Karl W. Reinsch
Microsoft RoboChamps Competitions
November 14, 2008Since I have already linked to my employer once today, I might as well post this too.
There is a series of challenges involving the programming of simulated robots at our RoboChamps site. Working with simulated robots should be familiar to those of us who have worked with RoboCup (or the simulated version) or TankSoar. The challenges include such tasks as navigating a maze, driving in an urban environment, sumo wrestling against another robot, and more. A soccer challenge looks to be coming soon under the name “Tournament”.
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