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Category Archives: Indevin
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
Flip, Flap, Flop! – Solari Fix.
About 13 years ago, before this web site, and back when I used to be called boznz.com, I put out a simple project to reverse engineer some soft-flap display units (brand-name Solari). My clients CEO had bought 20 of them … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
Bloody Auditors!
… Are one of the main the reasons I’ve been glued to my PC for the past 3 months, during my usually quiet times. As your business transitions from small to medium or you start to export items (especially food-items) … Continue reading
Tinkering around
While the case design for the mobile terminal version 1 is set in stone and will not change, I have been thinking of all the messing about I’ve gone through to get to the stage of having a half decent … Continue reading
Vintage Mode.
Yes, significant lack of progress on projects and posts can only mean one thing.. Fully back to the vintage grindstone! Nothing to do but be poised on the end of the phone to tweak Delphi code and fix stuff-ups on the … Continue reading
October Update
My visit to the UK was quite awesome and it was really good to catch up with all my old friends and work colleagues again and see how everything has changed, hopefully even convinced a couple to make the journey … Continue reading
Be careful with Delphi Tlines
Every once in a while my client Indevin need to re-calculate the vessel compositions across the winery using the application I wrote, and because each composition relies on the one before it, this means starting at job 1 and working … Continue reading