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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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This is another queued blog entry stuff for October 2012. Now that I am an author, I will have blog post entries queued up in draft mode, only because I have to now double check for grammar and the obvious spelling mistake. What do they say, no pain no gain. It the price of being […]

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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 […]

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Hey this is just for me. Every time I start a new contract at client that has Mac OS X computers I find myself repeating setup just like Groundhog Day. First thing is to set up BASH PROFILE Set up BASH profile with the following command. Substitute your own reference to Oracle or Apple provided […]

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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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Well I going to have to leave this one for somebody who is more expert than me, because I have more things to do with my time now. I had a question from a reader about the source code for Java EE 7 Developer Handbook. Does JMS 2.0 standalone work as a client? What I […]

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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 […]