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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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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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Season’s Greetings All My plan of action for 2021 is to: Go back to OUTSIDE IR35 contracting Off Payroll Worker tax change pending April 2021 is essentially a tax grab by the revenue Take advantage of the Small Company Exemption and help clients beat their bigger competition and disrupt their target markets. Because of the […]
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This is a description of a bug in Intellij IDEA where I have a Java EE 7 web application that deploys to an application server. Here, I am using TomEE 9, however the same issues happens in Payara 5.191 and the bog standard Tomcat 8 / Tomcat 9. Essential Intellij fails […]
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This are my verbatim notes to the PEAT UK podcast: Hot shot 003 – Thinking of Java 10 and beyond Hello once again. Java 10 was released on 20th March 2018. I think many software teams will hold back from upgrading to it. Even lesser numbers of professional probably still have yet to […]
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This are my verbatim notes to the PEAT UK podcast: Hello World Welcome to the first of meaning Pilgrim Engineering Architecture Technology (PEAT UK) Hotshots, which are uniquely positioned audio segments of development information. I am your host, Peter Pilgrim, a platform engineer specialising in Amazon Web Service and Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Enterprise Java […]
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