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Thursday JPR 2013

04 March 2013 Comments off

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This was the third day of the Round-Up. There were a Gradle Workshop by Hans Dockter, which actually was a presentation and it was not recorded as podcast, because it took place at Bruce’s house. The session moved from Rumours to the living space, because Hans required a large monitor. Much of the material for […]

Wednesday JPR 2013

03 March 2013 Comments off

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Wednesday was my absolute favourite day of the round-up. It was mid-week, we were half way through, already, the round-up. But before I can begin, I must say many of us had a late night at Joe Webber’s Princess bar. The jet lag had caught up with me by then, and the morning was rough, […]

Snowboarding Crested Butte 2013

02 March 2013 1 comment

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Some stuff about winter sports: JPR 2013: Thursday Introduction #2 from Peter Pilgrim on Vimeo. JPR 2013: Going Downhill with Chris Phleps from Peter Pilgrim on Vimeo. JPR 2013: Thursday Wipeout! Last Run of the Day! from Peter Pilgrim on Vimeo. Thursday Best Solo Download Run from Peter Pilgrim on Vimeo. JPR 2013: Wednesday Video […]

Tuesday JPR 2013

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Tuesday, 26th February, 2013, the day one of the Round-Up. The shenanigans of United were left behind. Today was a fresh start, a time that duly manipulated into a recharge. I was exhausted, the others had gone ahead to Rumours for initial Round-Up coffee, then they walked a short distance to the Parish Hall. The […]

Initial Days of the JavaPosse Round-Up 2013

26 February 2013 Comments off

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On Saturday, 23rd February 2013, South London, early in the morning, having packed my snowboard and a small Samsonite grey suite case overnight, I got up, trying my best not to disturb my partner. I was on my way to London Heathrow. The morning Sun sternly pushed its sunlight through seeming impenetrable clouds in to […]

Speaking at UK Conferences in 2013: Devoxx UK and ACCU Bristol

18 February 2013 Comments off

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In the early months of 2013, I have two conference that I, definitely, will be speaking at: Devoxx UK 2013, London. My talk is called Test Driven Development with Java EE 7, Arquillian and Enterprise Containers. This is the first edition of the Devoxx franchise in the United Kingdom. The conference is taking place at […]

KeyRemap4MacBook for a Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000

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Do you use a Apple Mac Book Pro at work? If you do, then, and if you like to use Microsoft Natural Keyboard for your day job then you might have found that Microsoft and Apple devices do not quite play well together. Some of the most important programming keys are mapped to strange characters. […]

“Why You No Train?”

01 February 2013 Comments off

6 minutes

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It is a simple question. So why don’t you get more training? Do you feel that you operate already effectively? Is there no more stuff to learn? Do you think that you are already “good”? Sometimes,  just when we are walking about and we feel everything is going smoothly, then the bottom drops out of […]

GlassFish 4 Promoted Build, Gradle and Embedded Application Server

31 January 2013 Comments off

2 minutes

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Very recently, perhaps towards end of last year, the GlassFish open source team released GlassFish 4.0 beta 72 as a promoted build. Arun Gupta posted an article on the Maven coordinates for the GlassFish 4 .0 beta 72 on his blog. This release was significant because the team published the artifacts into a maven repository. […]

Can’t Change; Won’t Change

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I have called this piece: Can’t Change, Won’t Change. It is about what I found in recent years working in the financial services industry, in particular inside investment banking. I witnessed Agile adoption inside these organisations. Sad to say, it did not happen. Instead, lip service was paid to say SCRUM, for example. A lot […]

Some Advice for New University Graduates; Dreams of Developing Software

26 December 2012 1 comment

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I have taken a step back in an attempt to put the year 2012 in focus. As always, it started with great hopes and there were highs and it seemed for a moment, that working life was back on track, but lurking in the background was an impending disaster. The problems were not fixed, I […]

Your Next PR Disaster is Inevitable When You Provide No Feedback

25 December 2012 Comments off

6 minutes

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This is a warning to the reader; your might feel at the end of this entry that it is all Dickens’s Christmas Carol and “Bah! Humbug!”. You would be rightfully semi-accurate in your analysis, of course. Quite simply, I hate when I go to an interview that is either face-to-face with a potential employer, or […]

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