Shine Technologies

Shine are pleased to announce a new release of the GWT/Spring/Maven Reference Project - our open source example of best practices in one of the most important J2EE technologies to appear in recent years. Some highlights in version 0.3 include;

• A proper Data Layer : using Spring 2.5 annotations, Hibernate 3.2 and integrated HSQLDB runtime memory database....

Shine Technologies has delivered one of the first native iPhone applications by an Australian company.

iZepto, a Web 2.0 timesheet system, now provides a free iPhone and iPod application for on the go time entry. Featuring a stylish multi-touch interface, users can now update their timesheets wherever they are quickly and easily. The application communicates in real time with the iZepto web application....

Delivering IT excellence is a journey - not a destination. This philosophy is one of the main reasons Shine Technologies has become a leading provider of IT consultancy and development services to the Australian Energy, Retail and Telecommunication industries over the past 10 years.

“It is a fantastic testament to our highly skilled team that Shine continues to grow from strength to strength,” stated Adam Kierce, Principal, Shine Technologies.

To celebrate,...

www.itnews.com.au features Shine Technologies Ruby on Rails expertise. Read the full case study here

After a year of commercial experience, two public sites and two more intranet sites on the way Shine is happy to announce that we are a serious provider of Ruby on Rails consulting and development. Read more about our offering here|

We all know the theory of distributed computing: by dividing tasks among several computers rather than having all processes originating from one central computer, we can increase overall throughput. The problem is that in reality the actual implementation of such a scheme is often quite complex. Technologies like EJB were supposed to make it easier, but they proved extremely intrusive to both the design and development process. Fortunately,...

Shine Technologies has partnered with Platinum Pass, a leading Corporate Hospitality service, to provide free online corporate entertainment booking and management capability for clients.

In a secure, convenient environment, www.platinumpass.com.au allows clients to explore, compare and purchase an extensive range of corporate entertainment solutions.

“Platinum Pass offers a free service, and gives clients a choice,...

A new product developed by Shine Technologies, the MRS application assists electricity retailers in reconciling their wholesale electricity settlement data with NEMMCO. MRS loads Retailer usage data, profiling it where necessary using NEMMCO published load profiles and then reconciles it with NEMMCO settlement data, highlighting any discrepancies to provide an effective wholesale settlements reconciliation tool. MRS also uses the latest distributed processing from Terracotta,...

Shine Technologies has played an important role in enabling the FlyBuys programme to host online auctions for members. Read our Press Release

Shine Technologies has played a major role in increasing ease of access for members of FlyBuys, Australia’s favourite shopping rewards program with a newly released Firefox plug-in. Read our Press Release

Shine Technologies has played a major role in enhancements to the FlyBuys program. The 4-month project included development and integration of key technologies to the FlyBuys program that supports the new ‘FlyBuys: Rewards just got easier ’ campaign and the consequent sizeable increase in traffic volumes to the FlyBuys website. Read our Press Release

Climate change is upon us. The scientists are now only arguing about how bad it is, not whether it is happening.

As an individual, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the problem and helpless to fix it. The good news is that if enough people do something we can make the politicians and leaders of industry take note. That's when the real action starts.

At Shine we are doing our small bit to help. As of now, Shine has a policy to be carbon neutral.

This year,...

Shine is proud to release two widgets for the Apple OS X Dashboard - Jira and Melbourne Trains. The Jira Widget is a port of the very successful Jira Widget for the Yahoo! Widget Engine by Shaun Ervine. The Melbourne Trains Widget used as a basis the Melbourne Trains Widget by Peter Sienkowski.

Please download and enjoy them here: Melbourne Trains Dashboard Widget Jira Dashboard Widget

Shine Technologies has launched new features for NBV providing Australian Energy Retailers with even more business intelligence coupled with the latest technologies. Read our Press Release

Shine Technologies has completed a full rewrite of the MYER one program website (https://www.myerone.com.au/), including the migration of all members from the existing legacy system. This included use of a new Content Management System (OpenCMS) and a Java service based architecture through to the legacy system. Technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, CruiseControl and others were used to great effect to provide a feature rich solution in a short time frame....

Shine's NBM system and Country Energy feature in The Age/Sydney Morning Herald in a case study called "Billing Software Generates Savings":

When squabbling over chump change was holding up multimillion-dollar bill payments, Country Energy called in an electronic referee to settle billing disputes quickly.
Electricity retailer and network operator Country Energy serves more than 800,000 customers in NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and the ACT. Owning more than 185,...

An updated Jira Widget for the Yahoo! Widget Engine is now available. With even better functionality you need to check out great features like:

• Spawn multiple instances
• Several colour schemes
• Ignore web service exceptions (helpful for mobile users)

1,500 downloads and going strong!

You can see more on the Jira Widget page.

Congratulations to Shine's Glen Worsley for successfully completing his Sun Java Programmer Certification!

Shine is committed to being the best Java development house in Australia and it is great to see our staff raising the bar again.

Shine's Shaun Ervine has release an awesome widget that can display the results of a Jira filter. You can download it here. The widget allows you to see the type, title and even the description (hover over for a tool tip) as well as linking directly into viewing the issue in a browser. Keep in mind, this widget requires the Jira RPC Plugin to be enabled.

For those that don't know Jira or [Yahoo! Widgets|http://widgets.yahoo....

Shine Technologies has been appointed to undertake the redevelopment of the FlyBuys website for Australia's biggest shopping loyalty program.

Shine Technologies - in its role as the main software development partner of the FlyBuys loyalty program - played an important role in the delivery of the FlyBuys Petrol Voucher promotion. The promotion allows FlyBuys members to redeem 1000 points for a 10c fuel voucher. Used in conjunction with the regular 4c voucher from Coles, members can get 14c per litre off the price at the bowser....

Shine Technologies staff member Ben Teese grapples with the subject of automatic value objects. You'll find his thoughts in his article here.

Our relationship with Country Energy has deepened with Shine being awarded the UMS project. UMS is the UnMetered Supply system.

Last night, Shine Technologies was announced as a winner at the Australian Information Industry Association awards ceremony in Sydney.

Our software product, NBV (Network Billing Validation), won against two other finalists in the category for Financial Applications.

Why we won
Over the last 3 years, the Australian software industry has seen an increasing management focus on outsourcing. If development in India is cheaper on a dollars per day basis, then why not use it?...

Shine recently decided to test our level of excellence against the best Australia has to offer. It's not totally about winning - it's more about practising what we preach. We wanted to know where we stood.

We've got fantastic news - we've been selected as a finalist in the AIIA 2005 iAwards, in the category of Financial Applications. The AIIA is the Australian Information Industry Association, our industry's peak body, and these are national awards....

Shine Technologies Principal Mark Johnson discusses the value of partnership and whether you can quantify the value that they deliver - particularly to the customer. You'll find it all in his article here.

Shine Technologies staff member Ben Teese grapples with the thorny question of when to automate unit testing. When is the break even point? You'll find it all in his article here.

We've recently finished work on a project that used the Mock Objects design pattern, a technique for improving the unit-testing of software components. Shine Technologies staff member Ben Teese has written an article that provides an overview of the Mock Object pattern, as well as some of our real-world experiences using it. You'll find it here.