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The time has come to start counting down until release. How to Improve Your Personal Performance in Java work Technology? (video course as known as PPJWT) **** EARLY ACCESS **** Discount code: Nichelle1969P Discount code: Prince1999V (Limited availability, expires 31-March-2021) Vimeo-On-Demand commercial (£££paid) course https://vimeo.com/ondemand/personaltech Subscribe to my training channel for future exclusive videos. Follow […]

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The time has come to start counting down until release. How to Improve Your Personal Performance in Java work Technology? (video course as known as PPJWT) **** EARLY ACCESS ****Discount code: Prince1999V(Limited availability, expires 31-March-2021) Vimeo-On-Demand commercial (£££paid) course https://vimeo.com/ondemand/personaltech Subscribe to my training channel for future exclusive videos. Follow me on Twitter @peter_pilgrim for […]

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I am proud to announce the early access of my new video online course for 2020, just in time for Black History Month*. You can find How to Improve Your Personal Performance in Java work Technology exclusively on Vimeo On-Demand.* Exclusive Vimeo On-Demand: The 75% off discount code is Nichelle1969P. This is a limited size […]

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Fake Jobs Fake jobs gives a bad name for the information technology contracting industry. It is just a scam to scavenge and harvest CVs from hapless developers, designers and architects and then to source the leads (human network communication) for recruitment agents. It starts for me, at least, with the recruiter refusing to give the […]

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Recently, I flicked through the faces of all of the presentations titles from Google I/O 2014 videos, I saw only one person who was black. She was from Ethiopia and was talking about a very worthy cause, solving the food shortage in Africa and making the cost of food production cheaper so that everyone could […]

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What an amazing week it was! On Monday, I gave a keynote presentation to JavaCro 2014. We flew into Zagreb in Sunday, were given a ride by Marko Elezovi? to Porec. The conference took place at the Valamar Diamant hotel and there some 250 Croatian developers and designers taking part. The JavaCro conference is a […]

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Instead of moaning, groaning and whining about the frustration of job search in the industry like I did last year and the years before. I am doing something about it this year, #ITMustChange2014 is the start of the awareness campaign. Here is the media, which is Creative Commons Licensed 3.0, Share-A-Like, No-Derivatives and Non-Commercial. So […]

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I arrived back in the UK after a trip to JavaOne and a tour of California. After hugs and kisses from family and dealing with other matter, there was package waiting in the hallway. I finally saw three copies of the Java EE 7 Developer Handbook. This is what crossing the finishing looks like in […]

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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 […]

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This is a warning to the reader; your might feel at the end of this entry that it is all Dickens’s Christmas Carol and “Bah! Humbug!”. You would be rightfully semi-accurate in your analysis, of course. Quite simply, I hate when I go to an interview that is either face-to-face with a potential employer, or […]

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Today, I feel humbled to experience another QCon London conference. It is the fourth time I have been involved, and I consider it the biggest event in my home town. What were my favourite events and happenings at QCon? Meeting with the people and having inspired conservations about technology Meeting Wendy Devolder of SkillsMatter and […]

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The things I enjoyed about this year’s open space conference. Just the enthusiasm and the luck of the draw about being there again. It was heart warming and uplifting to be part of the action Meeting this year’s new people Getting reacquainted with the previous JPR11 attendees Diane Marsh’s Scala Koans Sitting on Bruce Eckel’s […]