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Very gratefully, I have good news. I have survived the great industry tech disruption 2023. I started a brand new role at Solirius Consulting LTD as a Principal Engineer. Solirius are an independent technology consultancy that supply advanced solution architectures to clients in the private and public sector. The last few months have been, shall […]

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Last week, I presented a Java Interview Question 2: How to Find Duplicate Integers and Sort? We had a test harness to find all duplicate integers in a list collection. We wanted a sorted set of integers as a String text output. A modern Java solution is the following: I coded against Java 19, however […]

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Here is an online programming problem that you could encounter when interviewing for a contract / permanent job. You have a Java developer environment with a unit test class DuplicateIntegersTest (JUnit 5) and you are using a Java 11 / Java 17. You have to write the logic that passes the following test. The exercise […]

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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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PPJWT Countdown Day 1 – “Yo Drive Control” Release day is nearly upon us. This is a short extract of my 2020 / 2021 video online course. It’s very nearly is there, I promise. To be really honest, this video course is already three months late. I am disappointed by timekeeping, but I realise this […]

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This is my advertisment to find Small Business Exempt clients in 2021     If this is you, and your small business falls under the government criteria (2 of 3), and in the near future, if you are considering hiring a Java contractor developer specialist, then you find my details: My Linkedin is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterpilgrim2000/ […]

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A couple of weeks ago, I gave an interview to Armel Nene, Off The Chain podcast The interview is available as on YouTube visually, as Armel recorded with Zoom. If you are an audiophile then the interview is on SoundCloud too. We had a great conversation on my views about Full Stack engineering including a […]

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NHS COVID-19 Coupons Free access to all of my Vimeo On-Demand online courses in 2020 if you have a family member that works in the UK National Health Service.     This can be your mummy, daddy, auntie, uncle, cousins, grandparents… and even you, yourself, if you currently work for the NHS. Please Just send […]

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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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Today, I gave a presentation to Go Tech World 2019 conference on Cloud Native Java – are we there yet? . In July, I received the personal invitation to speak in Bucherest, Romania from the organisers. I thought about for a bit and then accepted the great chance to talk in the Eastern frontier of […]

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This is a report about my experience Devoxx 2018, which took place from Monday 12th November until Friday 16th November. The last time, I was in Antwerp was exactly two years ago, and I was looking forward to seeing where the level of this conference was. I asked myself who would be main influencers, the […]

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This are my verbatim notes to the PEAT UK podcast:     Hello there once again to another hot shot. My name is Peter Pilgrim, platform engineer and DevOps specialist, and Java Champion.     As DevOps engineer, you probably already heard of Jenkins and continuous integration. Jenkins was originally an open source project called […]