Monthly Archives: March 2010

Change Management, the watchdog of Complex Systems?

I once read an article on a new implementation of an autopilot system. My colleagues and me found it quite amusing that it used a dog-bites-man strategy, in the sense that the expert system would guide the pilot and warn him if he was doing something stupid or hazardous acting as a watchdog over human [...]

Blogging from the iPhone

This is my first post written on the iPhone. I have had the WordPress app installed for a long time, but I have never really gotten around to use it. So here goes, my first post written entirely on the iPhone. I normally use MacJournal, so I will have to synchronize these entries back to [...]

Ada Lovelace Day: Karen Pauley

Today is Ada Lovelace Day. I am supposed to write a blog entry about women in tech. I have been giving this a lot of thought since I signed up for participation for Ada Lovelace Day. When the kids left the house, I sat down at the computer. Going over the list of recent tweets, [...]

Am I the only hybrid Perl programmer?

Sometime back I got a green grass project. The assignment was to implement a proprietary protocol over HTTP in Perl. I chose to use Catalyst. Having worked with mod_perl and Apache a lot in the past I thought it would be a good idea to use this too and the integration with Catalyst would be [...]