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Packt are supporting #DayAgainstDRM campaign for the 6th May. This means you can buy my #javaee7handbook for $10 https://www.packtpub.com/java-ee-7-developer-handbook/book What does Digital Right Management means to the modern consumer? Today, I think that consumers are right to protest against DRM, because it is an artificial Pandora Box designed to protect digital content. The sad fact […]

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Packt Publishing have launched a campaign to coincide with the release of their 2000th title. As a Packt Pub author, I can inform you, the reader, this is a superb chance to get your copy of the Java EE 7 Developer Handbook (eBook) for free, or you can get another title free. Hurry up now, […]

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Start your new year with Java EE 7 learning. Stay update on us. Packt Publishing have kindly offered me a discount code for my book Java EE 7 Developer Handbook for the New Year 2014. So I am passing this code directly to you, readers of my blog and the wider community. You have less than […]

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This is one old Java question from 2011 that landed on my desk. Admittedly, at the time, I was really looking for permanent role, senior Java developer in investment banking in London. I had given up on searching for that perfect banking Scala programming role, I went back to job hunting on Java EE 6, […]

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Jason Lee Cameron McKenzie of  The Server Side .COM recently interviewed me late last year about my experiences of writing the Java EE 7 Developer Handbook. I gave some advice on to how to get into Java EE 7 as well as promote my book! I was quoted with “What would be nice is if […]

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I posted a video introduction for readers who are learning Java EE for the first time. This is useful for budding engineers who bought my recent book, Java EE 7 Developer Handbook, and want to understand how build the software using Git and Gradle. Introduction to Java EE 7 Developer Handbook from Peter Pilgrim on […]

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There are 3 lucky winners of the Java EE 7 Developer Handbook competition. Congratulations to Cathy White, the special selected winner, who wrote the best comment and wins first prize! The next two winners in second and third place, respectively, are Rui Morais and Seb Rose. They were chosen by this following Groovy program that […]

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Thanks to the very kind folk at Packt Pub, we have a surprise competition for you at Devoxx and also out there online, who perhaps could not make it to Antwerp this year. We have three electronic copies of the Java EE 7 Developer Handbook up for grabs [available for all supported formats Kindle, e-Reader, […]

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Some lucky winners at the Devoxx 2013 conference got their hands on a signed Java EE 7 Developer Handbook from yours truly. I brought seven copies of the book from London over the Eurostar to Antwerp. Inconjunction with the JCP and Oracle, we raffled away at two BOFS, the Java EE Gathering with David Belabassee […]

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I am on my way to Devoxx 2013 now. I have 100 discount vouchers for my recently released Java EE 7 Developer Handbook to give away. If you want one of these tickets, then come grab me Wednesday and Thursday. You can get a discount on the physical tome or e-books or both on the Packt […]

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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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I arrived back in the UK after a trip to JavaOne and a tour of California. After hugs and kisses from family and dealing with other matter, there was package waiting in the hallway. I finally saw three copies of the Java EE 7 Developer Handbook. This is what crossing the finishing looks like in […]