As noted previously, I'm attending the Business Rules Forum in Nashville (insert obligatory "yee-haw!" here). In addition to being in the hotel where the Country Music Awards are taking place tonight, the BRF has been a veritable motherlode of knowledge. This is the absolute first conference that has been beneficial to me. In my head (and soon in some LaTeX) I've been sketching out some future directons for drools including rule management, repositories, deployment and analysis.
I've learned that the rule engine is but a small portion of the entire space of "business rules". There's plenty of room to grow. Nothing quite like a swift kick in the ass to get excited about a project again.
my head hurts too