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At last, I have the October screencast, as I promised weeks ago whilst in the USA. This is a reprisal of my JavaOne 2013 talk, which was called Test-Driven Development with Java EE 7, Arquillian and Enterprise Containers. The conference id was CON4279. As I reprised this JavaOne talk, I actually then realised that it […]

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Thanks to Van Riper again, as part of the JUG Leaders and Java Champions invitation, I went to along Google SF 2013 after the JavaOne conference on Thursday evening. Here are the photographs. (This is a queued up October blog entry) Here is a photo of Kevin Nilsson, a relatively new “Noogler”. He is working […]

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My name is Peter Pilgrim. I am a technical book author, a Java Champion, software developer and designer. I live in London, England. Have you read Part 1 and Part 2? In final part, I will close up any other loosely ends to JavaOne 2013. These were wallposter bills that were stuck onto the Nikko […]

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My name is Peter Pilgrim. I am a technical book author, a Java Champion, software developer and designer. I live in London, England. In part one, I was said that I was surprised by the diversity of crossover technologies in the Java space. Naturally, it has to do with my chosen schedule that belies the […]

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JavaOne 2013 already feels like a lifetime away. There is a melancholy in the wind as I sit in a rental car driving out from San Francisco airport. I started to write this report on checkout-of-hotel Friday morning. My memory is blur with the activities of the week, suffice to say that this conference has […]

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My Test Driven Development with Java EE 7 talk at Devoxx UK 2013, in which I talk my testing with the Arquillian framework and unit test inside the container. I promote an early version of the code from upcoming Java EE 7 book. I’m going to reprise this talk and move the level up from […]

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A couple of weeks ago, I gave a telephone interview with Contractor Calculator about the my feelings, thoughts and the progression of my career into and out and back into of contracting. It’s has been bad and good. (At the time of writing, it is good again, just in case you’re wondering.) The 30 minutes […]

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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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On Saturday, 23rd February 2013, South London, early in the morning, having packed my snowboard and a small Samsonite grey suite case overnight, I got up, trying my best not to disturb my partner. I was on my way to London Heathrow. The morning Sun sternly pushed its sunlight through seeming impenetrable clouds in to […]

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Devoxx 2012: Bam! Stephen Chin rode into the Wednesday morning Keynote with his NightHacking.com motorbike. It was an exciting start to the conference days! They say that change is inevitable and you cannot never ever truly predict exactly what will happen in the future. This is common knowledge. Perhaps, the only way we can be […]

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After the exertions of JavaOne 2012, I was very glad of the relative warmth, wide-range green, autumn plucky country-side feel of Los Altos Hill. On Saturday, 6th October and partially Sunday 7th I was down at Foot Hill College for another dose of the Silicon Valley Code Camp. For people in Silicon Valley, a weekend […]

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  JavaOne 2012 Conference was last week, as I travel around Southern California, it seems like it happened yesterday. I write this blog initially in Monterey Bay, and then I finish it somewhere near Paso Robles, may be Los Angeles, probably. I have to say, that this year the JavaOne conference was a blast, and […]