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OSCON 2011: A Retrospective

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Shine Technologies

I got home from Portland, OR terribly jet lagged on Monday morning, but buzzing from my trip to the US and my experience as both an attendee and speaker at O’Reilly OSCON. Now that I’ve caught up on some sleep, … Continue reading →

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CITCON Australia/New Zealand 2010 – Day 2 (Part 2)

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Shine Technologies

Session 3: Build In Enterprise, Ant, Maven, Dependency Management

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CITCON Australia/New Zealand 2010 – Day 2 (Part 1)

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Shine Technologies

Day 2 started at 9am with the early attendees ‘refactoring’ the talks to fit into the schedule, this involved spreading the most voted talks into larger rooms, combining talks around similar topics, and at the same time making sure that … Continue reading →

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CITCON Australia/New Zealand 2010 – Day 1

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Shine Technologies

I attended CITCON A/NZ 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand. CITCON is an unconference on Continuous Integration and Testing, it uses an open space format (which worked really really well), and CITCON rocked! (more about this later)

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Rich clients – Welcome back old friend

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Shine Technologies

My name is Mark. And I like rich clients. There, I said it. I don’t like web applications. I never got Gmail as an interface. It never quite worked the way I wanted it to. I like eBay as a … Continue reading →

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Sun Developer Day 2008

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Shine Technologies

The following is a write-up of the highlights during the Sun Developer Day which I just attended. The early day kicked off with the usual registration and light refreshments before moving on to the ballroom for the opening keynote by … Continue reading →

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Be Lazy: Automate Everything

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Shine Technologies

One of my pet hates in software development is repetitive tasks: a complicated deployment process, tricky configuration of an application, repetitive editing motions that are just a little too messy for a find/replace. All of the above have, in the … Continue reading →

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Clearing the SCJP Hurdle

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Shine Technologies

Having accomplished one of my main short term goals in life, I thought I would reflect on the recent events that earned me my first certification outside of Uni. You might be thinking, whats the big deal about answering a … Continue reading →

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But I want to make an omelette … !

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Shine Technologies

Some people love it, others hate it – many people just don’t get it. So what is Test Driven Development ? Wikipedia has a page on it, there are heaps of blogs talking about it and our own Ben Teese … Continue reading →

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Iterations, increments or Sprints ?

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Shine Technologies

So what’s in a name … ? Does it matter what you call your chunks of work ? In many ways it doesn’t – different people use the terms inter-changeably. Sprint is specifically a Scrum term, XP tends to use … Continue reading →

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