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My First Technical Book

29 October 2013 1 comment

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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 […]

Day 1 Contract Mac OS X Client

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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 […]

Google SF 2013 Visit

28 October 2013 Comments off

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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 […]

Sorry, JMS 2.0 standalone examples are not that simple

23 October 2013 6 comments

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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 […]

JavaOne 2013 Report Part 3

02 October 2013 2 comments

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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 […]

JavaOne 2013 Report Part 2

01 October 2013 7 comments

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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 […]

JavaOne 2013 Report Part 1

30 September 2013 4 comments

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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 […]

ACCU 2013 Scala in the Enterprise Talk

03 September 2013 Comments off

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My Predictions InfoQ (and my good friend Floyd Marinescu) has published my talk from the ACCU 2013Conference in Bristol. I made some predictions to growth of languages of the JVM in 2011. The growth of Scala the programming language is good and yet I see the interest is not quite exploding as I thought it originally […]

My TDD Java EE 7 Devoxx UK 2013 on Parleys.com

02 August 2013 3 comments

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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 […]

Java EE 7 Handbook: Gradle Multi-Modules Puzzle

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Yesterday, I converted Gradle build code base for my upcoming Java EE 7 Developer Handbook book from invidual modules to multi-module. I thought I had this structure down, but I surprisingly I am stuck. Here is my book’s code structure in folder hierarchy: This structure runs for 14 chapters including appendices. So I have master […]

My Interview with Contractor Calculator

30 July 2013 Comments off

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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 […]

The Blue Eagle

28 July 2013 Comments off

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The Blue Eagle 2021 Barclay Banks was one of my clients in 2013. You are interesting in hiring for a contract then I will only look at OUTSIDE IR35 engagements and/or statement of work. During the corona virus pandemic, I have had various enquiries about permanent salary employment, especially over the summer. Many of these […]

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