Author Archives: Shine Technologies

Will Swift be the next king of server side development?

In June 2015, Apple announced at WWDC that they were open-sourcing the Swift language and its runtime libraries. On December 3rd that year they made good on their promise. In this post I’d like to talk about why this is significant, particularly for server-side … Continue reading

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Style Guides and AEM: Fitting a Square Peg in a Round Hole

There is a push in the industry to code against an external style guide to maintain consistent styling, have a reusable set of components to build applications with and provide a shared vocabulary for teams to communicate. The goal is … Continue reading

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A week in the life of a Google Developer Expert

A few months back, Shine’s Pablo Caif and Graham Polley were welcomed into the Google Developer Expert (GDE) program as a result of their recent work at Telstra. The projects they are working on consist of building bleeding edge big data solutions using tools like … Continue reading

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Tips for AEM Beginners

I started using Adobe Experience Manager (CQ 5.6.1) with a focus on component development and building OSGi services and I strongly believe that learning how to leverage AEM’s capabilities (as well as it’s underlying technologies like Apache Sling) are key … Continue reading

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Shiner Ben Teese to speak at YOW! Conference 2015

Shine is super proud to announce that senior consultant Ben Teese (@benteese) will be speaking at the YOW! Conference being held in Melbourne on the 3rd and 4th of December 2015. Ben will actually be co-presenting this one with Sam Ritchie (@FakeSamRitchie), an iOS developer … Continue reading

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re:Invent 2015 the vibe of the thing

I’m back at re:Invent 3 years after the inaugural conference and I’m keen to know what changed, not in the offering of the platform but more about what people are doing with it and what other technology trends there are … Continue reading

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Messages in the sky

One of the projects that I’m currently working on is developing a solution whereby millions of rows per hour are streamed real-time into Google BigQuery. This data is then available for immediate analysis by the business. The business likes this. … Continue reading

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Shiners now officially ‘Google Developer Experts’

You may have already read our previous post here about Shine’s Pablo Caif & Graham Polley being nominated to become ‘Google Developer Experts‘ (GDE). Well, today Shine are proud to announce that both guys have been officially awarded the braggable title of … Continue reading

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Google Cloud Dataproc and the 17 minute train challenge

My work commute My commute to and from work on the train is on average 17 minutes. It’s the usual uneventful affair, where the majority of people pass the time by surfing their mobile devices, catching a few Zs, or by reading a … Continue reading

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re:Invent 2015 Conference report: Welcome to the Starship Enterprise

Last week I attended the fourth re:Invent conference for Amazon Web Services in Las Vegas. During four days I got to hear some new announcements, gain insights into specific technologies and gauge the mood of the AWS ecosystem. Reflecting on … Continue reading

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