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NetBeans 6.0 doesn’t play well with the SCM kiddies

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Shine Technologies

After initially enjoying a fresh new IDE in NetBeans 6.0 M9, I started to hit a wall with source code management tools like CVS and Subversion.  For a start, where is the wonderful ‘Synchronize with Repository’ function that I have … Continue reading →

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Mashups and potatoes

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Shine Technologies

Mmmmm… mashups sound interesting….but don’t we have to WANT to share information? I attended a seminar yesterday with some other Shiners on Web 2.0 and mashups, got quite excited at the thought of an open and free world where we … Continue reading →

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The Software Patent Cold War hots up

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Shine Technologies

The Software Patent Arms Race has been building slowly over the past decade, as more and more organisations build their patent portfolios in reaction to the broken software patent process, threats from patent trolls and as a defence against other … Continue reading →

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‘Free advice for the Litigious’ article

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Shine Technologies

Ben put me on to Jonathan Schwartz’s blog the other day.  As the CEO of Sun, you might expect his articles to push the company line – and they do.  The interesting thing is that more often than not I … Continue reading →

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Agile software development – back to first principles

Posted on May 15, 2007 by Shine Technologies

The Agile Manifesto was released in 2001 with some theatre and not a little revolutionary symbolism. Whilst it was seen by many as being a radical departure from accepted software development “best practise” I remember being somewhat bemused at what … Continue reading →

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JavaOne: Cameron Purdy & ‘The Top 10 Ways to Botch Enterprise Java Scalability and Reliability’

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Shine Technologies

JavaOne’s over now, but there’s still a couple of presentations I want to talk about. My favorite presenter of the week was Cameron Purdy, CEO of Tangosol. His presentation topic was ‘The Top 10 Ways to Botch Enterprise Java Technology-Based … Continue reading →

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Viva la JavaOne!

Posted on May 12, 2007 by Shine Technologies

So JavaOne 2007 is over. An interesting week, and as I sit at SF airport waiting for the Flying Kangaroo to hop me home I thought I would reflect on the week that was. For me the highlights were the … Continue reading →

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AIIA Industry Analyst Forum, Future Trends

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Shine Technologies

I attended a very interesting conference this week (although maybe not as fancy as Java One!) with three excellent important speakers, namely Andy Rowsell-Jones (Gartner), Catherin Bennett (IDC) , Sam Higgins (Longhaus) Gartner Survey of CIOs : 63% they will … Continue reading →

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And so it starts…

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Shine Technologies

Welcome to the Shine Technologies blog. Here you will find thoughts, tips, help and hopefully wisdom related to software development and Java in particular. Although we are prefer to publish our knowledge in terms or articles, blogs are that handy, … Continue reading →

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