Category Archives: Javascript

Bootstrap makes me look good

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Shine Technologies

Before we begin, let me give you a quick background. I’m a web developer who likes to dabble a bit in UI design. The majority of the projects I work on are non public facing, so they are often without … Continue reading →

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Yow! Developer Conference Brisbane.

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Shine Technologies

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 →

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Me Want Cookie: Session Handling with NetBiscuits Mobile Web Apps

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Shine Technologies

Shine was recently involved with helping a client bring an outsourced mobile web site in-house. The site was essentially a guide for browsing business and event information for cinemas, restaurants and bars in your area. Bringing this web site in-house … Continue reading →

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JavaScript from Nose to Tail

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Shine Technologies

Cliffano Subagio from Shine Technologies presented together with Carl Husselbee from Sensis “JavaScript from Nose to Tail” at the August MelbJS Meetup. The slides and the video of the presentation are now online.

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Building a shared calendar with Backbone.js and FullCalendar: A step-by-step tutorial

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Shine Technologies

In a prior post, I explained how Backbone.js can be used to implement cascading select boxes. However, this was pretty much just a read-only affair, and these were relatively simple HTML elements. How does Backbone fare creating, updating and deleting … Continue reading →

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Cascading Select Boxes with Backbone.js: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Shine Technologies

Up until recent years, client-side Javascript development has resembled the wild-west from a software design perspective. Libraries like jQuery have certainly helped, but with the rise of Single-Page Applications, jQuery alone doesn’t provide enough of an overall framework for large-scale … Continue reading →

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TLS/SSL tunneling with Node.js

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Shine Technologies

I was recently faced with a bit of a coding challenge whereby I needed to get LDAP authentication working via SSL/TLS using Node. Unfortunately for me Node.js is a relatively new language and a secure LDAP library is still on … Continue reading →

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Couchtato – A CouchDB Document Utility Tool Written In Node.js

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Shine Technologies

We have been using Apache CouchDB at one of our clients project, and despite how well CouchDB worked, we learnt that there was still no easy way to find certain documents without resorting to writing map reduce functions either via … Continue reading →

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Node.js From the Enterprise Java Perspective

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Shine Technologies

Node.js currently is getting much attention because it uses a concurrency model that shows great promise in scalability: event-driven asynchronous Input/Output. This model can handle thousands of concurrent user-requests and do that with a tiny memory footprint, things that cannot … Continue reading →

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jazz: node.js templates for humans

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Shine Technologies

The use of bleeding-edge technology in the enterprise can be a daunting prospect. There are bugs to deal with, nuances to learn and third party libraries to overcome. Our team has been dealing with all of these issues over the … Continue reading →

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