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Digital Java EE 7 Course 2 Day Course 2016 Date: ( The dates on the first half of 2016) Venue: Milton Keynes Agenda: To Be Decided (TBD) Details: TBD ( I envision the course with reflect content from both of my books. This course will be more on the front-end of Java server side development.) […]

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Hi All My publisher, Packt Pubishing, has very kindly organised a 50% off sale promotion for my latest book Digital JavaEE 7 Web Application Development.     To take advantage of this fabulous offer, follow this link [opens a new tab on the Packt Pub offer web site]. Actually, the Thanksgiving sale is from the […]

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I thought that I would put out some of my JavaOne 2015 journalistic blogging thoughts. The push to MODULES is in ernest. Mark Reinhold is asking for help to test the JDK 9 early releases. He want to ensure that Project Jigsaw is “done right” without breaking the guarantees of the Java platform: (developer) usability, […]

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JetBrains announced another pre-release of the fabulous IntelliJ IDEA 14 RC2, which I installed yesterday. For me, it is already working fine and they appeared to have a fixed troublesome core dump editor bug. The current IDE 13.1.5 crashes on Mac OS X and Windows, because a project compiled against Java 7 cannot be deployed […]

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Here is the slide deck to my JavaOne 2014, San Franciso, talk Developing Java EE 7 Applications with Scala (CON2644) as a PDF. It seems that Slideshare still messes up the heavy graphical content design of my slides. You can find the entire code to the presentation on GitHub and yes the examples do all […]

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My publisher Packt are celebrating 10 years of success with over 2000 Titles in its Library. To celebrate this huge milestone, Packt is offering all of its eBooks and Videos at just 10.00 USD each. You have the perfect opportunity to buy my Java EE 7 Developer Handbook. There you go 🙂 +PP+

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This is a post that almost got away. You probably already follow my twitter feed @peter_pilgrim. I had a fabulous book signing event on Friday. All I want to do express my thanks to the Java Community Process for supporting me and to my publisher Packt Pub for helping up expediently. Incidentally, the JCP is […]

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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 […]

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This was one that almost got away. Chris Phelps from Boulder brought his copy of my Java EE 7 Developer Handbook to the JavaPosse Roundup 2014 in Crested Butte, Colorado. On the last morning of our merry gathering on the white snowy mountains, at the outgoing breakfast, I signed his book at Bruce Eckel’s house. […]

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Packt are supporting #DayAgainstDRM campaign for the 6th May. This means you can buy my #javaee7handbook for $10 https://www.packtpub.com/java-ee-7-developer-handbook/book What does Digital Right Management means to the modern consumer? Today, I think that consumers are right to protest against DRM, because it is an artificial Pandora Box designed to protect digital content. The sad fact […]

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I will be seeing some Croatian friends in May in Porec, thanks to the organisers JavaCro 2014, who kindly sent an invitation to come and speak at their conference. I will give two talks: one keynote and a technical session. The working titles are Digital Development with Java EE and Mixing Scala with Java EE […]

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Originally drafted on 21 February 2014 Here is WildFly application serverSystem V Initial Script that I quickly put together for a Centos 6 virtual machine. Use it at your own risk, don’t call me if something goes wrong, because I assume that you are an experienced Web Ops (web operations) or Sys Admin (system administrator) […]