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Will Swift be the next king of server side development?

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Shine Technologies

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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Google Cloud Dataproc and the 17 minute train challenge

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Shine Technologies

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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SSH through a Raspberry Pi Railway Signal

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Shine Technologies

We’ve all been there. You are in the supermarket with two bottles of diet cola in one arm and a packet of brown rice with quinoa in the other. Your site lead calls you with a request from a client … Continue reading →

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The Differences Between Linux Distros

Posted on May 8, 2007 by Shine Technologies

Finally some kind of guide as to the differences between the linux distributions. Follow the link http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/215/74/

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RHEL 5 – Xen & GFS

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Shine Technologies

Last week I went to a very interesting presentation in Melbourne by Redhat and HP about the release of RHEL 5. This does seem to be quite a step forward for RedHat and Enterprise software – and it was quite … Continue reading →

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