Author Archives: Shine Technologies

Shine Technologies sponsors Amazon Web Services Customer Appreciation Day

As an Amazon Partner Shine Technologies is proud to become Silver Sponsor for the AWS Customer Appreciation Day held at The Westin, Sydney, Australia, on 13 November 2012. AWS Customer Appreciation Day is a FREE, half day interactive seminar that … Continue reading

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Shine selected as Finalist in Coles IT Vendor Awards 2012

Shine Technologies has been awarded as one of three finalists in Coles IT Vendor Awards 2012, which recognises excellence amongst the companies supplying hardware, software and services to Coles. Shine was nominated for its role in the flybuys re-launch of … Continue reading

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A Challenging but Rewarding Experience with SCWCD

Those who have completed the SCJP exam would recall some of the challenges faced while tackling weird looking code problems aimed at thoroughly testing your understanding of the Java language. While the SCWCD exam has minimal code related questions, which … Continue reading

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Sun Developer Day 2008

The following is a write-up of the highlights during the Sun Developer Day which I just attended. The early day kicked off with the usual registration and light refreshments before moving on to the ballroom for the opening keynote by … Continue reading

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Ganymede MkII

Time to try Ganymede install again as the current version has got itself very confused! Install from scratch should take no more than 10-15mins (excluding any download times). This should give a good eclipse setup to do GWT and Maven … Continue reading

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New Release – Shine Reference Project

We have a new release of the GWT/Spring Shine Reference project out here (ver 0.3), which is an important improvement on the previous releases. Now includes proper Data Layer : using Spring 2.5 annotations, Hibernate 3.2 and integrated HSQLDB runtime … Continue reading

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Eclipse Ganymede…

This was just too painful! Unfortunately I would have to recommend to people to stay away from Ganymede if you use Subversion for version control until they sort out connectors, update sites etc. After installing on 4 machines (3 macs, … Continue reading

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Clearing the SCJP Hurdle

Having accomplished one of my main short term goals in life, I thought I would reflect on the recent events that earned me my first certification outside of Uni. You might be thinking, whats the big deal about answering a … Continue reading

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Rails and Windows – the love affair continues…

A while ago Ben wrote about how Ruby on Rails development sucks on Windows. It seems that the move by the Rails Core team from subversion to Git has inflamed this issue further. My favourite comment is: If you’re freaking … Continue reading

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The Three Amigos – Maven, Spring and GWT

Once in a while new technologies mature and coalesce together to provide a new and viable platform that radically change the traditional development landscape. In recent years Ruby on Rails has been the poster child of all that is new … Continue reading

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