I’m not a developer, but I play one on TV work with them everyday. And…for years now, I’ve been hearing all about some dude named Jason. It is one of the countless technical acronyms I’ve had to Google. JSON = JavaScript Object Notation. It is...
I can pretty much go anywhere nowadays and find something where business rules come into play. Take, for example, my recent experience shopping for a new trimmer for the yard. I had seen commercials for garden tools with interchangeable attachments and thought it was...
While struggling with While Loops…I was Saved by Execute Member Rule Set I have a little bit of experience with programming – enough to be dangerous. However, this experience biased me just enough that when presented with the problem below, my first approach was to...
When I need to explore a schema in Microsoft Dynamics, the first tool in my schema archaeology toolbox is irAuthor. More specifically, it’s irAuthor + irX for CRM + irVerify, but what’s a few more components among friends? But before I can put on my...
One of my all-time favorite episodes of The Simpsons is the one when Homer intentionally gains weight so that he can get on disability and work from home. When he sits in his makeshift home office on the first day, he turns on the computer which prompts him with a...
In scientific research, it’s very important to have the ability to control or compensate for as many of the factors influencing an experiment as possible. This is as true with a trial for a new medicine fighting cancer as it is with an epidemiological survey of...
Staying One Step Ahead of the Bad Guys A couple years ago I drove to the forest preserve to go for a run. I had done it so often that it never crossed my mind that something like this would happen. When I made it back to my car, I found my window had been bashed in. I...
InRule is installed in over 300 enterprises worldwide, most of whom use the product in mission-critical applications. Since the success of our company hinges on the success of our customers, we felt it was time to create a team solely focused on that goal and I have...
This is the final post in a four-part series that details the creation of a dynamically driven questionnaire (or survey) using Dynamics CRM and the InRule BRMS. You can find previous entries in this series here: Part I: Overview Part II: Dynamics architecture Part...
This is part III in a series of posts about using the InRule BRMS along with Microsoft Dynamics CRM to create a dynamic, guided survey experience. This post assumes a working familiarity with JavaScript, the KnockoutJS MVVM framework, and a little bit of Dynamics CRM....
