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I am happy to announce that that QuickRules.NET 3.1 Beta2 is now public.
Here are some useful links

QuickRules.NET Quick Tour (Video with Audio)

Product Home Page: http://www.yasutech.com/qrdn
What’s New: http://yasutech.com/qrdn/whatsnew.htm
Visit http://downloads.yasutech.com to download the Product

If you would like to have a go at the product, you can either download directly, or drop a comment.

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QuickRules.NET 3.1 Beta 1 is now officially Out!
The Product now has its own minisite with much more product information than before. The fun with web sites is that you can keep on updating them as frequently as you want and that is exactly what I expect to be doing.
The QuickRules.NET Product Mini-Site
http://www.yasutech.com/qrdn
Here are some quick […]

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A perfectly valid question, and Karthik Hariharan asks this question and further discusses it here. Here is his argument in effect.
Development teams often have to write custom wrappers for their platform
Mapping English sentences to objects can often become a nightmare that requires a dedicated team of professionals whose sole purpose is to make sure […]

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Its been more than a month since I wrote anything on this blog. But, most of this time has been spent working on the new release, QuickRules.NET 3.1.
The website is getting updated now, and should be ready by tomorrow I guess. But here are some screenshots and notes about what is coming in.
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This is the final post in the Business Rules and the SDLC series.Earlier posts in this series

Business Rules and Software Requirements
Business Rules and Application Design
Introducing the Business Rules Development Cycle
Business Rules and Testing

I have to assert that the real value of adopting Business Rules Technology is realized in the maintenance phase of an application.
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This is the fourth post in the Business Rules and the SDLC series.I have covered the following till now.

Business Rules and Software Requirements
Business Rules and Application Design
Introducing the Business Rules Development Cycle

The Purpose of Business Rules Testing
Now, the purpose of testing business rules is two fold!
Goal No 1
Are my business rules written the way I […]

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This is the second post in the Business Rules & the SDLC Series.I will try and explain how Business Rules Technologies will fit into the Application Design Process.
Design Goals & Business Rules
If you are designing a software system that will also automate Business Decisions, then what design goals should you be aiming for?
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This is the first post in the Business Rules and SDLC series. My purpose is to explain why Business Rules must not be treated as software requirements.
Introduction & Definition
So, what are what Software Requirements?.

Software Requirements provide a detailed description of what a software system should do.
Who owns such Requirements? Developers, of course
What will this description […]

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How do Business Rules Technology fit into the SDLC Life Cycle? I have been talking about this recently in my team, here is what I have been thinking & talking about.
Before I begin, here is a model of a generic SDLC process.

Explanation is needed as to how Business Rules will fit into diferent stages […]

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I was reading the Cadillac Story in Business Week, and I thought this was such a good usecase for explaining the power of the Business Rules Technology & approach.
Here is the gist of the story for those in a hurry! Excerpt from Business Week.
Car companies have for years kept goodwill funds for dealers to draw […]

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