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For very long time I have been away in a stew, so please accept my humblest apologies, I am blogging once again, because I am fed up with X/Twitter, Mastadon and LinkedIn. My name is Peter Pilgrim. I’m a Principal Engineer and also a Java champion and I work for a UK technical consultancy. Today […]

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The time has come to start counting down until release. I am now close to editing, encoding and rendering about 9 hours of content so far. How to Improve Your Personal Performance in Java work Technology? (video course as known as PPJWT). In this sneak peak, I discuss concepts of retrospectives in a much broader […]

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I have been involved in a few projects that are considered digital transformation. The term has a wildly convoluted meaning inside the industry. Some people think that this is about bringing about Agile software practices to laggard organisations, others believe that it is all about converting monolithic systems to micro-service oriented applications and, still, others […]

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  The Duke’s Street Cafe where engineers can have a hallway conversation on the street. Incompatible with contracting   Photo License My photos are licensed under Creative Commons License 2.5. You must include the license. You must attribute the source. You cannot use my work, the source for commercial activities. You cannot edit or derive […]

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On a much happier note – Yes. You can breathe a sign of relief at this blog entry – I have time to tell you about Episode 347 of the JavaPosse podcast. This was record at the Round-Up 2011, in Crested Butte, Colorado in February. This was the session that I hosted and shared, called […]

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This lunchtime I upgraded WordPress on the server to 3.1 version I had a lot of trouble getting WP to Twitter plug-in into work out of the box. I though it was a chroot Apache problem, a missing executable, or some file permission issues with Ubuntu Linux. It was none of the above. This was […]

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As I write this early in the morning I am really tired on being on the back side of what counts as information technology. Recently a friend asked me to simple two questions. I could not give a satisfactory answer.  The questions were why are you (as in me) not yet a manager of a […]