About the author
Peter Harrison
@cheetah100
Peter is the former President of the New Zealand Open Source Society. He is currently working on Business Workflow Automation, and is the core maintainer for Gravity Workflow a GPL workflow engine.
Auckland, New Zealand
Feb 12 '22
Three Bears Estimation
The idea of measuring velocity is meant to improve estimation. But can we really know the future?
Jan 22 '22
Micro Nightmares
Microservice domain coupling and how to break it.
Aug 16 '21
Dynamic Configuration of Java Plugins
Method of annotating Java plugins so they can be configured at runtime.
May 6 '21
MongoDB Breaking the Chains
How MongoDB has helped break the chains to the domain and enabled greater application flexibility.
Feb 10 '20
US Banning sale of AI technology. Will it work?
In January 2020 an article on defenseone.com said that the US Government would ban the sale of AI technology capable of analysis of satellite images. Will this regulation actually prevent other nations using AI for military purposes? Will it damage legitimate research and civil application of AI?
Jan 24 '20
Refactoring - How did we end up in this mess?
Despite all good intentions we end up with yet another spaghetti ball.
Sep 19 '19
Raising Robots
An exploration of how we might approach AI Safety.
Apr 18 '19
The Moral of the Challenger Accident
An exploration of the Shuttle Challenger accident and what we can learn from it.
Apr 10 '19
Is Deep Learning a Dead End?
Natural brains are so much better at learning than machine intelligence. Is the back propagation approach a siren; a dead end? Do we need to back up the truck?
Feb 17 '19
Get Down with Gravity
A history and description of the Open Source Gravity Workflow Automation system.
Nov 19 '18
UberG33K: A beginners guide.
A parody of what it means to be an UberG33K.
Nov 15 '18
Guide to Hiring Developers
An article from 2009 about what to look for when hiring software talent.