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Here it is, just in time for the weekend, a recording of the European JUG Leaders BOF from Devoxx 2013. Devoxx 2013 European JUG Leaders BOF from Peter Pilgrim on Vimeo. Enjoy 😉 PS: read up on my report to last November’s conference.

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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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I was asked by someone where can they download GlassFish. Of course, I pointed them to the official website. The site was revised in time for the Java EE 7 last year, and when I recently the ask advice that I passed on, then I realize the server download is old. So do we get […]

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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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Instead of moaning, groaning and whining about the frustration of job search in the industry like I did last year and the years before. I am doing something about it this year, #ITMustChange2014 is the start of the awareness campaign. Here is the media, which is Creative Commons Licensed 3.0, Share-A-Like, No-Derivatives and Non-Commercial. So […]

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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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This is my first blog entry of 2014. Happy New Year and I hope you all had a good break. Here is my quick interview with Java Oracle Technology Network at Devoxx 2013 with Tori Wieldt. I am promoting the #javaee7handbook here. And yes, I am going to be working on second Packt book for […]

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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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Here is a HTTP Response Java Enumeration type from yesteryear. In some client’s project, I have seen various constants like this: Which is absolutely awful and these constants are not consistently used in the code base. Worse of all, the code I have refactored will use literal constants. Even more worse, is the fact these […]

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Devoxx 2013 is most definitely and undoubtedly the best Java related conference in Europe. It stands second only to JavaOne, San Francisco, in importance in my humble opinion. I only attended the actual conference days for this year Devoxx. Elsewhere, I read that the quality of the university days were useful, in particular, Java EE, […]