We are living in the information age and are constantly on the quest for more. More information that is. Through the use of the internet, we have access to a wider variety of information than those who lived before us, but still we want more, and we want it faster. What steps are we taking to fulfil these desires? Where will this lead us?
Shine Senior Consultant Ben Teese has had a piece published in the latest DZone Guide to Database and Persistence Management. In the article, Ben does an overview and comparison of the Firebase, Meteor, and Amazon Cognito platforms. These platforms all aim to solve the use-case of...
WHAT A WEEKEND! I’m still recovering from the 24 hours of coding and the unhealthy amount of coffee and snacks I’ve ingested during this hackathon.
Two weeks ago, Melbourne was host to the first Battlehack of 2015. “What’s a Battlehack?” I hear you ask. Well Battlehacks are competitions sponsored by Braintree (a Paypal company) where teams of developers face off over 24 hours to create the most creative hack that benefits the local or global community. The venue, which was the Plaza Ballroom on Collins St was well worth a mention. The vast ballroom was decked out with food stations, sleep and massage stations, and most importantly, our hacking stations, or tables of 4 for the long night ahead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVxx2T7SPw8 Senior Consultant Ben Teese recently spoke at MelbJS about a new Javascript language feature that makes asynchronous programming much more straightforward: ES6 generators. The talk focussed on Koa, a next-generation web framework for Node.js that leverages generators to avoid the callback chaos that we normally associate with...
Shine is proud to have been awarded the Computerworld Data+ award for our work with Google BigQuery. The innovative work is a great example of using great technology to deliver business benefit. You can see the write up of the award here: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2598539/shine-technologies.html Congratulations to the Shiners...
Shine Senior Developer Ben Teese will be speaking at YOW! Connected next week.Held in Melbourne, Australia on September 8 and 9, YOW! Connected covers both Mobile Development and The Internet of Things.Ben's talk topic is 'The State of the Mobile Web' and is scheduled for 3:30pm on...
Shiners Luke Alexander and Graham Polley will be speaking at Agile Australia 2014 next week about their experiences delivering Agile Big-Data Analytics at Telstra with Google's BigQuery. Following on from their recent interview on the Google Developer Channel, Luke and Graham will be talking about how BigQuery...
Shine is proud to announce that Senior Consultant Ben Teese will be speaking at the world's first-ever Angular.js conference in Salt Lake City in mid-January. Also known as ng-conf, it will feature members of the Angular team from Google, as well as Angular experts from around...
We are very excited to announce that Shine Technologies has been accepted onto the newly formed Telstra IT and Professional Services panel. After over 10 great years of working with Telstra and Sensis we were advised back in May that Telstra was going to formalise...