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ANNOUNCEMENT NEW COURSE I have recorded video online lecture, online course, if you will. It is called Test-Driven Development using Kotlin by Peter Pilgrim Java Champion and it is available on Vimeo.     STOP PRESS My course is now also available at Teachable (PEAT School).   Enroll in Course   Feedback is very much […]

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Thank you all for attending my Devoxx UK 2013 presentation earlier today: Test-Driven Development with Java EE 7, Arquillian and Embedded Containers. It was a total honour to be at the first United Kingdom franchise. I am very proud to have served the community. Here is the Slidedeck for the talk: Devoxx UK 2013 Test-Driven […]

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The theme of this year’s JavaOne was Make The Future Java. Was this tagline a clever choice of words? Maybe an implied call to action? It would appear that Oracle are relying more and more on community involvement to ensure certain products were. View from the Villa Florence, JavaOne had unseasonal sunny weather, we were […]

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I recently had the pleasure of Installing Libre Office 3.6 on a recent Windows 64 bit system. First, I found it does install. If you have a previous Libre Office instance on the machine, the installer fails with a message like “stop the quickstarter before the installer can continue”. Can the installer not do this […]

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Here is my interview with Tori Wieldt of Oracle Tech-Net OTN Java.net . It took place at 2PM on Wednesday 16th, November 2011 at Devoxx. Enjoy. I talked about JavaFX 2.0 release, what developers can actually do with this new Java language API around the scene-graph, media and audio capabilities. In this interview, on my […]

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Wow! I was really amazed by today’s Coke-Up conference at Skills Matter. It was a worthwhile experience and it was great to meet some of the members. First, let me say it was a complete different crowd of Londoners and software developers than I was used to. Most of the folk in my network are […]

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You have probably guessed correctly. That’s right! I will be making a personal appearance at Skills Matter tomorrow for Cuke-Up, which is the one day conference about Cucumber BDD (Behaviour Driven Development) tool. Why am I investing time learning about Ruby testing tool? Well the answer is that many of Ruby’s goodness including RSpec have […]