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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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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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Welcome to another edition of the Principal Tech. In this video cast, on YouTube, I discuss #IR35RepealScrapped(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 This is all about the future […]

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2020 And yes it is impossible to reboot the year 2020. On Wednesday, 1st January 2020, I had no idea what COVID-19 meant. It might have been a News Years Day tomorrow off some infection into China, but like for many of you, I was too busy sleeping off the night’s celebrations. Little did we […]

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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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Digital Java EE 7 Training Series 1 Episode 8 part III In this episode I discuss modern microservices with Payara and RESTful services. I look at the code to develop a RESTful resources of football stadia and their teams.     This is part 3 Digital Java EE 7 Training Series 1 Episode 8 part […]

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Digital Java EE 7 Training Series 1 Episode 8 part I In this episode I discuss modern microservices with Payara and RESTful services     This is part I Digital Java EE 7 Training Series 1 Episode 8 part 1 from Peter Pilgrim on Vimeo.     This is part II Digital Java EE 7 […]

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These are selection of photos from Devoxx trip:     Cassandra Clark of Oracle community outreach interviews Antonio Gonclaves on the OTN stand     I also was interviewed by Cassandra earlier in the day. Look out for my OTN interview soon.     Sven Reimers is a member of the Netbeans Dream Team   […]

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This episode is all about the overview Java Enterprise technology from first principles. I will take you through the stack from the hardware to the Java classes whilst flying at 30,000 feet in the air. I will be your pilot over the layers of abstractions for 30 minutes or so from the depth of the […]

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I recommend experienced contractors avoid software engineering testing platforms especially when the client requests you complete a test before a telephone or face-to-face interview. In other word, avoid TEST-FIRST. Of course, you might exactly know what you are getting into, conduct research and seeing it for yourself. Just know the consequences. I took a Hacker […]

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Based the last blog entries: Part 1 and Part 2. This is tongue-in-check, however please read it and the last paragraph. Today, 19th July, I saw somebody had tweeted about Head Coach job specification for Belgium. Discover the desired profile of the new Belgian Red Devils’ head coach. – Experience and results in the currently […]

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Why aren’t you getting the best contractors and what can you do about it In Part 1, we look into the question of why companies suck at finding great contractors. We covered reviewing the genuine opportunity. We touched on why demand for great contractors outstrips the supply. We saw why TEST-FIRST recruitment is an abject […]