Ninety-ninety Rule Of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Category Archives: Bulls-i
Continuous Floatation in Wineries
There are two common methods to clarify juice before it goes into fermentation. Firstly there is cold-settling, where you just leave the juice alone for several days and wait for the clear juice and lees (the juice particulates) to separate. … Continue reading
Posted in boz, Boz NZ, Bulls-i, C Programming, Indevin, MRP, Pascal Programming, Process Automation, Programming, SCADA, SQL, Uncategorized
Tagged Allison Droguett, Clarification, Continuous Floatation, Factory Automation, Fran Monsalve, Grape Receival, RFID, SCADA, Touchscreen, Winemaking, Winery Automation
Removing Some Very Un-Corporate Baggage
In preparation for the shut-down and hand-over of the outgoing Bulls-i Winemaking system at Indevin I thought I would go through and maybe remove some of the more inappropriate comments and messages so as not to offend the next guy … Continue reading
Posted in Bulls-i, Funny, Indevin, IT Failures, Uncategorized
Yet another boring small project (with an interesting back-story)
As I sit at my desk in the clients winery, “working” vintage support, (a job where I mostly feel like Dumbo’s feather, ie a prop that gives the company confidence everything will be great, where as in reality I do … Continue reading
Posted in Bulls-i, ESP32-C3, Indevin, Uncategorized
2025, My Final Vintage and Open For New Business
Fran, Allison and Me by the Wineries Continuous Floatation System March 2025 I developed the original Bulls-i winery management program for Indevin Ltd back in 2008 when they were just a small winery based in a single site in Blenheim, … Continue reading
Posted in Boz NZ, Bulls-i, C Programming, Electronics, Indevin, MRP, MySQL, New Zealand, NZ, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Programming, Project Management, SQL, Villa Maria
Tagged C Programmer, contract work, Delphi Developer, Delphi programmer, Electronics Design, end of project, full-time, indevin, New Zealand, part-time, SQL administration, SQL Development
Lora Data Collection Terminal
Not really designed for manufacture, but the final version of this device is quite easy to assemble and doesn’t look too embarrassing for a low volume unit. Design files are here => EasyEDA The only change I may be making … Continue reading
Posted in Bulls-i, Electronics, Indevin, LoRa, Mobile Terminal, Office Politics
If the worst should happen!
Finally got around to having a proper holiday in the UK and here I am at the end of it with no tan, a few kg heavier and no actual support problems to report other than a few RTFM problems. … Continue reading
Posted in Bulls-i, Indevin, IT Failures, Project Management
