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Unit Testing PHP and Silex using PHPUnit

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Shine Technologies

As a newcomer to PHP I was puzzled by how to unit test controllers and services when using Silex (if you’re wondering, Silex is based on the Symfony 2 framework and draws a lot of modules from it). In this post … Continue reading →

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YOW Conference – A first-timer’s experiences

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Shine Technologies

As a first-time attendee I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from YOW! 2013. Seeing the range of speakers scheduled to be part of this, and having heard some good comments from previous years’ participants, I jumped at the opportunity … Continue reading →

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Shine wins two awards at 2013 Australian Mobile Awards

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Shine Technologies

We’re excited and proud to announce that we’ve won in two categories at the 2013 Australian Mobile Awards! We won an award in the ‘Productivity App’ category for Teamstuff, an app designed and developed entirely in-house by Shine. Next up we … Continue reading →

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JavaOne 2013 Day Two – Polyglot Gauntlet

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Shine Technologies

Day Two of JavaOne was another huge day and the longest of the entire week, finishing 9.15pm.  Looking back over it, it was the strongest technically featuring excellent presenters and ideas. The morning began with some sessions on best practises … Continue reading →

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JavaOne 2013 Day One

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Shine Technologies

I’ve been lucky enough to be in San Francisco this week to cover the JavaOne conference.  Today (Monday 23rd) was the first real day of conference proceedings and it was a very full day.  Sessions started 8.30am and ran until … Continue reading →

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JavaOne 2013 Day Zero

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Shine Technologies

The 18th JavaOne started this Sunday in San Francisco. Covering three hotels in downtown SF, Hilton, Parc55 and Nikkon and with keynotes in the Moscone Centre, Oracle OpenWorld is hands down the biggest conference I’ve ever attended.  It covers 5 … Continue reading →

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TEL: Shine’s Technical Excellence and Leadership Group

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Shine Technologies

In the last two years, Shine staff have spoken 5 times at conferences in Australia and overseas. We’ve done 10 user group presentations around Melbourne, and posted 37 entries to this blog – not including news items and conference reports. … Continue reading →

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Senior Consultant Marc Fasel to speak at JavaOne Shanghai

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Shine Technologies

Shine Technologies Senior Consultant Marc Fasel is speaking at JavaOne Shanghai this week. His topic is “Implementation of Continuous Delivery on a Enterprise Java Stack”. If you’re attending the conference, he’ll be speaking on Thursday from 12pm-1pm. Drop by and … Continue reading →

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Web Directions Code 2013

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Shine Technologies

The second incarnation of the Web Directions Code conference was this year on 2.-3. May, and I was fortunate enough to both attend and speak. The conference held in Melbourne Town Hall was the place to geek out about all … Continue reading →

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YOW! 2012 Melbourne: A Conference Report

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Shine Technologies

YOW! 2012 took place a few weeks ago, bringing some of the world’s best developers and agile gurus on a roadshow across Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Having been to YOW! in 2010 and followed the line-up last year, I can … Continue reading →

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