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This is my admission. A brain dump of an awkward Scala interviewing experience, first of all, I am going to hold my fire, because in the end state, it really does not matter. Instead, the adage that I elect to follow is known as Knowledge is Power – Share Some, Rasta. I have some experience […]

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As promised, I delivered the THIRD episode of Principal Tech Show. I am the Principal Tech. In this video cast, on YouTube, I discuss #SmartFocus (hashtag) I am purposely not writing a lot of text on this blog post. The idea is you go watch and/or listen, because I am experimenting with the audio-visual form […]

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As promised, I delivered a new episode, the second in a new production of Principal Tech. I am the Principal Tech. In this video cast, on YouTube, I discuss #BlackTechTwitter (hashtag). I am purposely not writing a lot of text on this blog post. The idea is you go watch and/or listen, because I am […]

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I have a new show Principal Tech E1 – Is UK Contracting Worth It? I uploaded the first episode to YouTube and I will add more shows for the foreseeable future. I am the Principal Technologist. In the autumn 2021, I had many enquiries about this nature of work. Some people have been asking me […]

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The time has come to start counting down until release. Given When Then is for life! 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 […]

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Today, I uploaded to YouTube a long form video (00:25:27 duration). In this long-form video presentation, I discuss my personal choice of why I chose contracting over permanent opportunities in my career. I share my feelings and historic decisions of why I got into contracting, why I found it beneficial and why it can be […]

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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 […]