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This episode 4 is about my letter to the Driver Vehicle Standards Agency. The DVSA is responsible for monitoring vehicle safety tests in the United Kingdom. To be honest, I was taken aback when I found out the truth about their responsibilities. I might derail presently at the time of writing, by personal crisis, however […]

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Welcome to another edition of the Principal Tech. In this video cast, on YouTube, I discuss #IR35Repeal(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 experimenting with the audio-visual form of content production On Friday 23rd September 2022, The […]

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  @peter_pilgrim: Ow! I watched panorama via the iplayer finished at fifty https://tinyurl.com/3dm2yzn and the future  prospects were bleak @imccaffery: @peter_pilgrim i know the future is bleak i was on the programme   British Television viewers are probably very familiar with Panorama, the investigative journal program on the terrestrial  BBC ONE TV. I watched this […]

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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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Today, I know for a fact, that the market is dead. It is easy to see why it is, and why everyone involved agile or agility or so bloody confused.   The Tale of Two Agilities by Barry Hawkins, XtraNormals.    Explicit material over 16’s only: adult, swearing, alcohol We do Agile at my job […]

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Thursday 4:50PM March 11, 2011 is the date and time. Location is the Rutherford room at Queen Elizabeth II Centre. The occasion is QCon London 2011 conference. I will be joining the Patrick Curran, of the Java Community Process (The JCP) in a panel discussion. Patrick Curran is the chairman of the JCP, works in […]

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  I have been slack in my technical leadership [blogging, audioboo recording, community output]. I know. I feel bad about it. I wonder what the future holds. It has been a frustrating time. I think many organisations lie about their needs and /or some really do not know exactly what it is they truly want […]

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Of Vultures and other carrion eating creatures. Poor old software engineer please note, that actually we can be, at any one time, the prey who are hunted. We are the ones in certain situations that have no actual control. We are politically naive. We are rudderless. We are unaware and we are like children mostly […]

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Recently, I have been thinking about Java and Moving Beyond Java. I ruminated aloud in a couple of Audioboos and so here are a summarised listable version of these thoughts and ideas. Listen to AudioBoo: Moving Beyond Java on the JVM: To Be Or Not To Be Listen to AudioBoo: Investment Banks Moving Beyond Java? […]

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The line “You have failed me for the last time” comes from Star Wars Episode V, Empire Strikes Back. Why I left JRoller for the my own professional branding