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Recent 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.

Asynchronous Code Design with Node.js 26/08/2011 | Marc Fasel The asynchronous event-driven I/O of Node.js is currently evaluated by many enterprises as a high-performance alternative to the traditional synchronous I/O of multi-threaded enterprise application se [ ... ] Read More...

A Continuous Delivery of Business Value. 20/05/2011 | Alistair Sutton The goal of this article is to discuss how improving the automated testing aspects of a continuous delivery project led to dramatic improvements in quality and delivered real business value to a leadi [ ... ] Read More...

Migrating FlyBuys from MicroFocus to Fujitsu COBOL 02/02/2010 | Kon Katsaros Early in 2009, Shine Technologies performed a conversion of the COBOL source code used in FlyBuys systems to replace the use of the MicroFocus compiler with the Fujitsu COBOL compiler and related runt [ ... ] Read More...

Recent Blogs

Here's some recent entries from the Shine Blog. Want to see more? Visit the blog, or even better, subscribe!

• Processing Huge JSON Files with Jackson Posted on 23 Dec 2011 | 2:41 am by Grant Ruwoldt

  A couple of months ago I was asked to build a processor that would take a JSON file; perform a few elementary checks and transformations and upload the resulting records into a Couch DB. I hadn’t done any JSON, or … Continue reading →

• Yow! Developer Conference Brisbane. Posted on 12 Dec 2011 | 5:46 am by Alistair Sutton

  Yow! Brisbane 2011 I recently had the pleasure of attending the Brisbane Yow! Conference.  This was a great conference with talks to interest developers across many languages platforms and experience. This blog is a summary of the more interesting talks … Continue reading →

• CouchDb on Android Posted on 14 Nov 2011 | 6:13 am by Daniel Brain

  Synchronising advanced data structures with a backend sucks. Especially when the sync is both ways; user updates to server, server updates to user. Couchbase for Mobile attempts to solve this issue by bringing CouchDb and it’s spiffy replication to Android. What? … Continue reading →

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.