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Backbone Boilerplate Vs. Rails Asset Pipeline

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Shine Technologies

We recently shifted from Backbone Boilerplate to the Rails Asset Pipeline for generating the various assets (Javascript, CSS, HTML, images, etc) that comprise teamstuff.com, a single-page app. In this post I’ll talk about our motivations for making the shift, what we had to change to get … Continue reading →

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Testing for Android with Robotium

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Shine Technologies

Android’s built-in testing framework is lacking on a number of levels. Enter Robotium, an open-source project. Robotium connects the dots by extending Android’s testing framework and providing convenience methods to help developers rapidly create tests. In this entry I will … Continue reading →

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How to Stop Cucumber Becoming Technology Roadkill

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Shine Technologies

I’ve worked on a number of projects with Cucumber now, and I think it is a terrific tool. However, I’ve been seeing it used in ways that it was not originally intended for, the consequence being acceptance-test suites that grow … 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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A Continuous Delivery of Business Value.

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Shine Technologies

The goal of this article is to discuss how improving the automated testing aspects of a continuous delivery project led to dramatic improvements in quality and delivered real business value to a leading bank in Melbourne Australia. It will cover … 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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CouchDB: The Good Bits

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Shine Technologies

You’ve probably heard it somewhere already: NoSQL is the new hotness. There are a growing number of weirdly named storage engines out there purporting to be part of the NoSQL movement. This post is the first of a small series … Continue reading →

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Hudson SiteMonitor Plugin and JSLint Violations Support

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Shine Technologies

Late last December, Shine allowed me to spend a couple of days working on some Hudson contributions. I was planning to finish 3-4 plugins, but used up too much time trying various approaches and testing various scenarios. I actually ended … Continue reading →

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My git-svn workflow

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Shine Technologies

A while back Mark expressed interest to me in using git and git-svn for version control on his own machine, against a remote Subversion repository. However, when I followed up with him recently, he admitted that in the small amount … 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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