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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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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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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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This are my verbatim notes to the PEAT UK podcast: Hot shot 005 – Quick introduction Spock Testing framework Thursday, 17th May 2018 Hello there once again to another hot shot. My name is Peter Pilgrim, Platform engineer and DevOps specialist, and Java Champion. Spock is a behavourial-driven design (BDD) testing framework written […]
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I found over decades of software development that the concept of elegance of code is at constant flux with the idea of functionality. Single Page Application paradigm #0 Hello there reader! I use these little pop overs dialogs to provide extra information to the article. Please click elsewhere on the view to dismiss it. Thank […]
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As a professional software engineer, you probably have encountered an architectural stumbling block known as a MONOLITH#1. A monolith is essentially a single tier application in enterprise architecture. Forget about the traditional break-down of Java EE application, where they break down an Uber-WAR file into presentation, business-logic and database tiers. That is just gloss over […]
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Okay. Maybe I am being over dramatic in the title. I do believe that Java, the ecosystem, the community, the virtual machine and the mother programming language will be around for a long time to come. What can deflect from it? Postulating in my hotel room with a lot time, in between adding finesse to […]
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Hey this is just for me. Every time I start a new contract at client that has Mac OS X computers I find myself repeating setup just like Groundhog Day. First thing is to set up BASH PROFILE Set up BASH profile with the following command. Substitute your own reference to Oracle or Apple provided […]
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Here is a review of Arquillian Testing Guide by John D. Ament published by Packt Publishing. Before I give my opinion of his book, let me first make a disclaimer. I am also a Packt Pub author. I am the author of the up and coming Java EE 7 Developer Handbook (September 2013). Mr Ament […]
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Do you use a Apple Mac Book Pro at work? If you do, then, and if you like to use Microsoft Natural Keyboard for your day job then you might have found that Microsoft and Apple devices do not quite play well together. Some of the most important programming keys are mapped to strange characters. […]
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The last day of QCon, Friday, had already started with a keynote, Resilient Response in Complex System, John Allspaw. The general advice was concentrate on recovery rather than attempting to avoid failure. The talk emphasized the need to train developers and operators in failure situation, following the model of military or emergency services. The […]
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