Business Rules Discussion Group

I founded the Yahoo BizRules discussion group which you can join by clicking the button below. The group is moderated and is for discussion by Business and IT professionals of Business Rules Management Systems including but not limited to:

• Products
• Methodologies
• Projects
• Employment

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Quantitative Finance

I am interested in knowing about any application development (Java) projects that I can participate in which involve quantitative financial modeling (financial engineering). I am based in Washington, DC, have a PhD in Physics, and am familiar with the FIX protocol (particularly FIXML) and xignite.

JUnit ExpectException Assertion

It would be very nice to have a method called assertExpectedException in JUnit. Syntax could be something like the following:

assertExpectedException(ExceptionType, myobject.mymethod());

Extreme Programming with Microsoft .NET Talk

Tonight I am giving a talk on XP with Microsoft.NET at the Washington, DC Area Extreme Programming Group. Here is the groups home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/XpWdc/

The agenda is the following:

* XP Practices
   Test First Design
   Continuous Integration
   Coding Standards
   Refactoring
* XP Tools
   NUnit
   NUnitASP
   CruiseControl.NET
   NAnt
   FxCop
   ReSharper