Welcome
We have become SmittyTech which will continue to service the IT clients of Alpine Agriculture, based in Central Otago, New Zealand. We no longer offer services in Vineyards in Central Otago due to a change of direction by John, we scaled the business down. John is now a fulltime employee of Waterforce Ltd in Cromwell. He still is involved in building and servicing Database solutions for the old IT clients of Alpine Ag. For services in Vineyards please watch this space ... we have great news.
Weather Data
In recent years we have become involved in supplying and servicing data loggers in Vineyards. The weather page on this site is supplied with data from a weather station on the roof of our office in Clyde NZ.
IT packing Shed Logistics
We have developed a number of dispatch logistics solutions for clients over the years. In the past we used MS Access as it was present in our clients IT environment. With the advent of web enbled applications, there are now many different techniques available for clients to achieve good database driven applications.The current project being worked on is a simple winery fermentation log application.
Open Source Software Solutions
With a long association, passion and interest in open source software, in particular SuSE Linux and its modern open source version, openSuSE, we have implemented many elegant solutions for ourselves, with little or no cost other than the time to write the scripts to achieve the results. The weather page is an example of a simple text based information page, derived from a MySQL (An opensource SQL server) database, with data collected from a 1 wire weather station on the office roof. A very simple and low cost system, implemented using simple cron scripts to create XML files that are uploaded at intervals during the day, to be used in the weather web page. Total cost of the station was a few hundred dollars, and the time to write the scripts.
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Our Mission
To use Attitude, Ability, and Application to excel at completing to a high standard the needs of our clients.