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My publisher Packt are celebrating 10 years of success with over 2000 Titles in its Library. To celebrate this huge milestone, Packt is offering all of its eBooks and Videos at just 10.00 USD each. You have the perfect opportunity to buy my Java EE 7 Developer Handbook. There you go 🙂 +PP+

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Contractor rates have not been tracking inflation in the United Kingdom for the past decade from 2004 to 2014. I found some information from the IT Jobs Watch site to back this claim. Source data: IT Jobs Watch site on Java People complain about contractors being expensive, but we have to take care of our […]

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This came through the email box on 26th June 2014, verbatim text (apart from the emphasis mine) Dear, I am looking for Content management @ London, UK Please share your contact number. If this position of no interest, please refer your friends/ colleagues by making me in CC . Job Spec: · Hands on experience […]

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This is a post that almost got away. You probably already follow my twitter feed @peter_pilgrim. I had a fabulous book signing event on Friday. All I want to do express my thanks to the Java Community Process for supporting me and to my publisher Packt Pub for helping up expediently. Incidentally, the JCP is […]

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Over 16 year age content I use Linked-In as online curriculum vitae and a career profile, and you may have seen post earlier in the year about my disgust at the IT industry recruitment practices. I am up to now several hundred plus linked-in requests that have overloaded my mail inbox over there. Admittedly, I […]

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A little over a month ago, I flew over to JavaCro and gave a keynote and a session presentation. I completed an interview for Mreža magazine, which is in Croatian. The organisers were graciously kind to send me a couple of souvenir copies of the magazine. Mreza, Croatia sent me physical copies of their magazine, […]

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This is blog entry originally written in the middle May 2014. I also seem to writing this code every 3 months or so and then I forgot. So I need a trigger to remember exactly how to work Scala Maps and sort the entries by key. Let’s break out the Scala REPL. We will create […]

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I will be attending the following events for the remainder of 2014 Java Posse Roundup 2014 UK Edition I am only attending on the Wednesday, 11th June; Skills Matter; London, UK Devoxx UK 2014 Thursday and Friday, 12th and 13th June; Business Design Centre; London, UK I will be signing copies of my Java EE […]

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In my last blog, I had some issues with Atlassian Stash. In the last week and half, I would like amend my attitude to the product. In fact, I thank Atlassian Support for their really good responses and quick turn around to my questions. The biggest problem, which I think that even engineer like me, […]

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Don’t get me wrong, I like the simplicity of the user interface in Atlassian Stash, what is too painful for me is the networking configuration between it and Apache HTTPD server. It really should be very simple, but I find that mod_proxy drops more connections than a butterfingered wicket keeper on the field. Apparently, this […]

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What an amazing week it was! On Monday, I gave a keynote presentation to JavaCro 2014. We flew into Zagreb in Sunday, were given a ride by Marko Elezovi? to Porec. The conference took place at the Valamar Diamant hotel and there some 250 Croatian developers and designers taking part. The JavaCro conference is a […]

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This was one that almost got away. Chris Phelps from Boulder brought his copy of my Java EE 7 Developer Handbook to the JavaPosse Roundup 2014 in Crested Butte, Colorado. On the last morning of our merry gathering on the white snowy mountains, at the outgoing breakfast, I signed his book at Bruce Eckel’s house. […]