2008.04.03 - Drools How To - 1 of 2
Dallas Rules Group had it's second meeting Thursday night, April 3rd.
This was our schedule:
6:30 - 6:45 Greetings and Social (no food)
6:45 - 7:30 Installing and getting everyone loaded up with Drools
7:30 - 8:00 Getting the examples up and running (James Owen bringing CDs)
8:00 - 8:15 James Owen on Difference between Declarative and Procedural Programming
8:15 - 9:00 Greg does the 21st Century version of MAB
9:00 - 9:30 Q&A
We advertised this, initially:
If you don't know what the basics of externalizing if-then statements into a separate business rules engine is like at a basic level, this particular meeting might be the one for you because it's at an introductory level.
The meeting location is 222 West Las Colinas Blvd, Irving, Texas 75039. We will be on the 9th floor. A sign will direct you to the conference room. Visitor parking is on the south side of the towers on the west bound service road from O'Connor/114, it is the East tower.
Attendance:
In addition, we had Mark Proctor from JBoss Rules in London joining us over the web, and Michael Neale, also from JBoss Rules, joining us from Australia. We were quite honored to have had these dignitaries join us.
Actual Schedule
We all downloaded stuff our box first, worked for a while on getting our boxes set up, and then James Owen and Greg Barton presented fundamentals on rule engines and how they work.
At 8 we shifted back into the code world, and Greg Barton gave us a code walk through on the traditional "Monkeys and Bananas."
After all of this, at 8:45, we shifted back into Q & A time and discussed many other issues.