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Some Advice for New University Graduates; Dreams of Developing Software

26 December 2012 1 comment

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I have taken a step back in an attempt to put the year 2012 in focus. As always, it started with great hopes and there were highs and it seemed for a moment, that working life was back on track, but lurking in the background was an impending disaster. The problems were not fixed, I […]

Catch Up At Devoxx 2012

08 November 2012 Comments off

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Next Week, I will be at Devoxx 2012, in Antwerp, Belgium from Monday 12th until Friday 16th, December. I shall, therefore, be out-of-office. I am looking forward to meeting you all in person, if you can make it, at Europe’s premier Java IT technology conference. Sadly, the conference has already sold out weeks ago.   […]

Emancipated

19 October 2012 Comments off

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By the beginning of September 2012, my consultancy contract, ended after 10 months. In a lot of ways, it was an interesting experience, a game of two halves. The first half was in-house and learned Spring Integration, Enterprise Application Integration, properly. Whereas in the past, I only touched on the periphery of these ideas, using […]

Moving Java Forward into The Future

30 September 2012 1 comment

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Well now. I got here, San Francisco, on Friday night in one piece for another JavaOne 2012 conference. Sunday, today, is the first day of the conference. What will 2013 bring to the Java community world wide? What sort of technology will become more recognised? I am actually very happy with the way JavaFX has been adopted. […]

Code Anything At Will

25 August 2012 2 comments

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In this entry, I am handing over the natural keyboard to you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t fret. There is absolutely nothing to be worried about. Just take it and code something wonderful. Code something beautiful, mega-gorgeous, substantial. How about something profound, something that inspires you? Completely tear it up whilst you are in the zone, […]

Devoxx 2011 European JUG Leaders BOF Video

01 March 2012 Comments off

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I really apologise for being very late with this. Sorry about that. However, the European JUG Leaders BOF Video from Devoxx 2011 is finally here in all of its glory. Enjoy for real now     Plus there is a more friendly URL https://vimeo.com/peterpilgrim/devoxx11-europeans-jug-leaders-bof PS: There JUG leaders here from North and South America, Africa […]

Looking Forward to QCon London 2012

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As I write this, today is 29th February 2012, a leap year and day. Tomorrow will be first day of March, which also the same month that QCon London 2012 takes place. I was due to give an updated JavaFX tutorial, on the Tuesday university, but it did not work out in the time. I […]

Devoxx 2011 Report

24 November 2011 15 comments

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As my tardiness will allow, I have massive blog entry about Devoxx to write. I seem always write a week after the event, because there is so much happening. This year, I presented with Stephen Chin, a university session, three hours long about what a humble Java engineer needs to know about JavaFX 2.0, especially […]

California 2011 Part One

05 November 2011 Comments off

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Which direction do you go in? Long walk along Geary Street on Saturday Walking past an example of small-scale scraper architecture Street tap dancing skills at SOMA, San Francisco, crossing of Old Navy Store, Powell Street station Destination reached, a shot from the building where Best Buy store located along Geary Street, 2.5 miles from […]

Interview Tori Wieldt From JavaOne 2011

11 October 2011 Comments off

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Just a quickie whilst I am still in California for a while. Tori Wieldt from Java.Net, Java Developer Community Lead at Oracle interviewed Stephen Chin and I on the Sunday 2nd October.  Here is the interview and we are in the 1:54 to 4:10 approximately.  

JavaOne 2011 Wrap Up

10 October 2011 2 comments

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Wow! What a week it has been in California at JavaOne. [FULL VERSION – After the crash of flaming Microsoft Live Writer, I recovered and improved this blog entry.]   View from Hotel Nikko upper level looking down on the Mason Street Buzz Cafe, Chill Out Area The biggest news of the event were the […]

JavaOne 2011 Impressions

04 October 2011 Comments off

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JavaOne 2011 Impressions The first news is that JavaFX 2.0 has been released as general availability [Alternative download here]. Oracle have delivered on their promised, or may be it was Sun Microsystems vision, to reinvigorate the user interface on the desktop. I think this is a fantastic result, and the entire Oracle JavaFX SDK team […]

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