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This is one old Java question from 2011 that landed on my desk. Admittedly, at the time, I was really looking for permanent role, senior Java developer in investment banking in London. I had given up on searching for that perfect banking Scala programming role, I went back to job hunting on Java EE 6, […]

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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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Jason Lee Cameron McKenzie of  The Server Side .COM recently interviewed me late last year about my experiences of writing the Java EE 7 Developer Handbook. I gave some advice on to how to get into Java EE 7 as well as promote my book! I was quoted with “What would be nice is if […]

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This is my first blog entry of 2014. Happy New Year and I hope you all had a good break. Here is my quick interview with Java Oracle Technology Network at Devoxx 2013 with Tori Wieldt. I am promoting the #javaee7handbook here. And yes, I am going to be working on second Packt book for […]

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There are 3 lucky winners of the Java EE 7 Developer Handbook competition. Congratulations to Cathy White, the special selected winner, who wrote the best comment and wins first prize! The next two winners in second and third place, respectively, are Rui Morais and Seb Rose. They were chosen by this following Groovy program that […]

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Here is a HTTP Response Java Enumeration type from yesteryear. In some client’s project, I have seen various constants like this: Which is absolutely awful and these constants are not consistently used in the code base. Worse of all, the code I have refactored will use literal constants. Even more worse, is the fact these […]

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Devoxx 2013 is most definitely and undoubtedly the best Java related conference in Europe. It stands second only to JavaOne, San Francisco, in importance in my humble opinion. I only attended the actual conference days for this year Devoxx. Elsewhere, I read that the quality of the university days were useful, in particular, Java EE, […]

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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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My name is Peter Pilgrim. I am a technical book author, a Java Champion, software developer and designer. I live in London, England. Have you read Part 1 and Part 2? In final part, I will close up any other loosely ends to JavaOne 2013. These were wallposter bills that were stuck onto the Nikko […]

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A couple of weeks ago, I gave a telephone interview with Contractor Calculator about the my feelings, thoughts and the progression of my career into and out and back into of contracting. It’s has been bad and good. (At the time of writing, it is good again, just in case you’re wondering.) The 30 minutes […]

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The Blue Eagle 2021 Barclay Banks was one of my clients in 2013. You are interesting in hiring for a contract then I will only look at OUTSIDE IR35 engagements and/or statement of work. During the corona virus pandemic, I have had various enquiries about permanent salary employment, especially over the summer. Many of these […]

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This is a disturbing post for me, and probably for you.  I am an IT contractor in 2013, at least. It was not always that way, because I worked in long term permanent positions before now. I have said many times before I did not aim to be an IT contractor: it just fell in […]