Author Archives: Shine Technologies

Biometric authentication with Touch ID

Passwords have become such a pain in the neck. Switching between different apps and websites you will usually find different password security policies. One site will inform you no more than 10 characters, other a 6 digits pin. While some other sites will … Continue reading

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Shine’s Ben Teese to speak at Web Directions Code

Shine Senior Consultant Ben Teese will be speaking at the upcoming Web Directions Code conference in Melbourne on June 27th and 28th. Ben will be talking about ES6 Promises. Web Directions Code is the premier front-end engineering conference in Australia. It features … Continue reading

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AWS Summit Sydney 2015: Conference Report, Part 2

A couple of weeks ago Shine attended an exclusive Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Roundtable, AWS Partner day, and open-to-all AWS Summit day in Sydney. I’ve discussed the Partner Day and Roundtable in a previous post – in this post I’m going to … Continue reading

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Building a file explorer on top of Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is a simple file storage solution that is great for storing content, but how well does it stack up when used as the storage mechanism for a web-based file explorer? Recently I was tasked with doing just this … Continue reading

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ES6 Promises are here!

The ES6 spaceship has landed and promises are amongst the first new features to come down the ramp. I’m very excited about this. This is because I love promises. They’ve been lurking around for years in different incarnations, but now that we’ve … Continue reading

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AWS Partner Summit Sydney 2015: Conference Report, Part 1

A couple of weeks ago Shine attended an exclusive Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Roundtable, AWS Partner day, and open-to-all AWS Summit day in Sydney. In this post – the first of three – I’m going to talk about my experiences at the … Continue reading

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Securing your Spring App using 2FA

Not so long ago, a good old username and password were considered more than enough to secure access to our applications and favourite web sites. But back then, nobody could have imagined the countless ways in which a hacker can now get a hold of our precious … Continue reading

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Agile UX 2015: Conference Report

Last month I had the opportunity to attend the Agile UX conference in Sydney.  A one day conference, run by UX Australia, the topics centred around “designing great user experiences within an Agile environment”.  For me, as a non-UX practitioner, … Continue reading

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Playing with Play Framework 2.3.x: REST, pipelines, and Scala

It’s an established trend in the modern software world that if you want to get something done, you’ll probably need to put together a web service to get do it. People expect data and services to be available everywhere, in a mobile world. With the plethora of frameworks and technologies available to go about implementing a web service, it becomes a chore to try using anything beyond what’s already familiar. But every now and then it’s an enjoyable experience to dive into something new and distinctly unfamiliar. Continue reading

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Spring Data REST and Projections

Introduction In recent years, Spring has become much more than just a dependancy injection container and an MVC web application framework. Nowadays, it’s the go-to for building enterprise solutions due to the fact it has a fantastic community built up around it, and it has a … Continue reading

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