My little boom-gate has made it to work now and been hooked up to the test automation harness. This pic should explain the spaghetti reference in the post title… This may all look a very unsophisticated , but the systems behind this are industrial strength and pretty comlex. It’s kind of humbling to think of [...]

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Simon on August 28th, 2011

My project at work at the moment is a large Physical Access Control System (PACS). We have automated some of the testing of physical devices with an I/O interface and API into the control devices. As a bit of fun I built this to hang off the controller rather than watching events and status updates [...]

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Simon on March 4th, 2010

I am a simple creature! It made my morning this morning when I discovered a stencil download that added some of the UML 2.2 features to visio (which is floundering somewhere around UML 1.x out of the box…). “The UML stencil for Microsoft Visio supports all symbols of the UML 2.2, specified in OMG UML [...]

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