Our Thoughts

Articles

Below is a list of some of articles that we at shine have created. They might be technical documents that describe how to do something, or perhaps they are just some general thoughts that the writer thought might be of interest to others. Please take some time to have a look and a read.

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Presentations

Test-Driven Development - A PowerPoint presentation on Test-Driven Development by Senior Developer Ben Teese. Includes a detailed step-by-step example in Java. Also covers how EasyMock and Spring can make testing easier.
Flex and Rails - A QuickTime movie that demonstrates how Shine has used Flex to build a rich web interface for a Rails application. Includes a demo, overview of Flex and code walk-through.

Blogs

You might be interested to read shorter posts or even to subscribe to these blogs:

Shine Blog - Main Shine Blog
Thomas Lee - Shine Developer

Recent Thoughts...

For A Few Dollars Less
02/02/2010 | Kon Katsaros

For a Few Dollars Less - Migrating FlyBuys from MicroFocus to Fujitsu COBOL Early in 2009, Shine Technologies performed a conversion of the COBOL source code used in FlyBuys systems to replace [ ... ]

The Three Amigos - Maven, Spring and GWT
20/03/2008 | Stephen Callaghan

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a widely used - and misused - phrase in IT, having evolved to have different meanings to different people. For some it is no more than a re-branding of an archi [ ... ]

Beauty and the Beast: CruiseControl meets Cobol
08/02/2008 | Stephen Callaghan

Continuous Integration with CruiseControl is a standard part of the development process here at Shine Technologies. All new projects kick off with a new build server and a CruiseControl install that c [ ... ]

Master-Worker with Terracotta Case Study
28/09/2007 | James Heanly

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. T [ ... ]

Recently I was asked to develop a mobile phone application for a customer using Java Micro Edition