Reviewing the context My last post on containers was all the way back in February, and the amount of change in this space since then has been dizzying in its pace! I want to follow up my original post with some more observations and reflections on Windows Containers...
The Problem The Stable Marriage Problem is a fairly well known matching algorithm. The premise is that a group of men and an equally numbered group of women both rank their preferred matches. The solution is to create matches between all men and women. Those matches...
A colleague of mine was working with a customer authoring rules using irX for Dynamics® and irAuthor. I’ve taken the liberty of almost entirely fictionalizing the details, this isn’t a verbatim account of our discussion. He wondered, “Are the virtual...
In a previous post, I reviewed how to solve a common authoring need of iterating a collection, using both the While Loop and Execute Member Rule Set constructs. I highlighted the benefits of using the Execute Member Rule Set over the While Loop. With version 5.0.19,...
I like to use my blog posts to share insights and lessons learned during InRule client projects. The following scenario is another example of something that I keep seeing come up in my work, as well for a lot of customers. The scenario is this: when using software...
When I first used irAuthor to solve a business problem (before I worked for InRule), I had not attended any rule authoring training. I received a “sample” Rule Application from a developer so I could use that as a template (I was writing rules that were...
I’ve been interested in learning about the new capabilities and support for Docker and Windows Containers in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and Windows Server 2016 for a while now. Rather than wait for a customer to ask whether we support these newly...
Hand-modification of a web.config file is one of the more common post-installation tasks that our customers find themselves performing. Similarly, because I am always setting up and tearing down new environments and servers, I find myself repeatedly needing to perform...
With InRule v5.0.11, a new “Deep copy” option has been added to the Copy Entity, Copy Collection and Add Collection Member actions. Before going any further, however, let me provide a definition of “deep copy”. And…to fully grasp that...
Overview I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of emergent complexity – a concept that describes how with a small number of simple (In)Rules, a system develops which is orders of magnitude more complex than the initial state. Examples of this abound all...
