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Shine hosts a successful Digital Leaders Breakfast

Yesterday Shine hosted a number of Digital Leaders to breakfast in Melbourne, aiming to share experiences and learning. More than 20 participants from organisations including Coles, Energy Australia, NAB, ANZ, Telstra, Fairfax Media and Australia Post heard presentations from Todd Copeland … Continue reading

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NoSQL in the cloud: A scalable alternative to Relational Databases

With the current move to cloud computing, the need to scale applications presents itself as a challenge for storing data. If you are using a traditional relational database you may find yourself working on a complex policy for distributing your database … Continue reading

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YOW! 2015 Melbourne: A Conference Report

The YOW! 2015 Developer Conference in Melbourne took place a few weeks ago, and once again the organisers did a splendid job curating a selection of both international and local speakers (including Shine’s very own Ben Teese). There were also delicious meals and glorious … Continue reading

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A week in the life of a Google Developer Expert

A few months back, Shine’s Pablo Caif and Graham Polley were welcomed into the Google Developer Expert (GDE) program as a result of their recent work at Telstra. The projects they are working on consist of building bleeding edge big data solutions using tools like … Continue reading

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re:Invent 2015 the vibe of the thing

I’m back at re:Invent 3 years after the inaugural conference and I’m keen to know what changed, not in the offering of the platform but more about what people are doing with it and what other technology trends there are … Continue reading

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Development & Design: Bridging the Gap

For over a decade, I have been working with developers, business stakeholders, and users to create digital experiences and/or services that are designed to inform, inspire, and entertain. While creating these experiences I have noticed a certain lack of understanding … Continue reading

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Agile UX 2015: Conference Report

Last month I had the opportunity to attend the Agile UX conference in Sydney.  A one day conference, run by UX Australia, the topics centred around “designing great user experiences within an Agile environment”.  For me, as a non-UX practitioner, … Continue reading

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Hooking up to the real world with microcontrollers

Much of our IT work at Shine Technologies deals with fairly dry commercial concepts like page views, web clicks and conversion rates. In this post I’ll describe a personal IT project I undertook with a more tangible “real world” application: adapting … Continue reading

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Shine excellence recognised as Innovation Finalist in NAB Supplier Awards 2014

  Shine excellence recognised as Innovation Finalist in NAB Supplier Awards 2014 Shine Technologies is proud to be acknowledged for excellence as one of three Finalists in the NAB Supplier Awards 2014, Innovation category.  This acknowledgement demonstrates Shine’s commitment to being a … Continue reading

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Not Just About The Technology

As a Senior Consultant at Shine Technologies here in Melbourne, Australia, I get to work on some great projects, with great technology and great people. But working at Shine isn’t always just about the technology. Recently, I got to work … Continue reading

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