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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

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Nov 15 '18

Electronic Invoicing: Almost Two Decades On

An examination of the failure of a open standards project.

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Oct 27 '18

Is a Four Year Degree The Way?

An examination of four year programming degrees.

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Sep 24 '18

Appropriate Design

How should we find the balance between too little design and too much?

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Sep 18 '18

Avalanche Software Development Method

Avalanche is a methodology employed to maximize synergistic business strategy in a diverse cloud environment.

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Sep 14 '18

Java Developer Litmus Test Solution

In this article we see a solution to the previously posted test and discuss how to evaluate solutions.

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Sep 12 '18

BPEL not for People

Business Process Execution Language is not suited for dealing with processes that involve automation and people.

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Sep 8 '18

Java Developer Litmus Test Part 1

Explore how you can test an applicants Java skills beyond the surface.

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Aug 30 '18

Ownership, Empathy and Efficiency

Modern software development, whether we are talking about the more traditional waterfall model or...

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Aug 16 '18

Answering Singularity Criticisms

Answering common criticisms of the possibility of achieving general intelligence in machines.

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Jul 31 '18

What is 'Senior' anyway?

What makes a senior a senior? Why do we care?

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Jul 30 '18

Tactical or Strategic?

By adopting Agile have we given over to short term tactical projects rather than strategic capability development?

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Jul 27 '18

What is AI Missing?

Will the current crop of convolutional neural networks get us to general intelligence?

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