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Favourite Linux and Unix Bash Aliases

29 June 2012 Comments off

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I first got involved with commercial UNIX in the early 1990s. It was fascinating experience on Sun Microsystems SunOS 4.1.3, if memory serves. Even before that professional development, I learnt a lot about UNIX and C at university in my fourth year of the degree course. Yet it was my first work experience at a […]

JavaOne 2012 Upcoming Presentations on JavaFX, Scala and Java EE 7

18 June 2012 2 comments

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A week ago, the JavaOne 2012 call-for-papers came to a conclusion. Notifications were sent out to the content authors. I submitted three papers and got two accepted.   CON4643    Contemporary User Interface Design Patterns in JavaFX 2.2 CON4648    Scala, JavaFX, Java EE 7 and Enterprise Integration   Just before the confirmations were out, Stephen Chin, […]

Ubuntu ActiveMQ Initialisation Scripts

30 March 2012 Comments off

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Recently, I have been working with Ubuntu in a Virtual Box VM and setting up ActiveMQ for testing. I wanted to create a VM with an already running ActiveMQ as a service, whenever I started it. In order to do this, I set up ActiveMQ as a Linux intialisation service. I installed ActiveMQ first by […]

QCon London 2012 Part 2

18 March 2012 Comments off

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  The last day of QCon, Friday, had already started with a keynote, Resilient Response in Complex System, John Allspaw. The general advice was concentrate on recovery rather than attempting to avoid failure. The talk emphasized the need to train developers and operators in failure situation, following the model of military or emergency services. The […]

QCon London 2012 Part 1

16 March 2012 Comments off

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  I was fortunate to attend the QCon London 2012 conference, this year. Firstly, I was delighted to be invited as a speaker and then when that did not pan out, secondly, they still let me in as VIP guest. I would like to special thanks the QCon / Trifork staff for the awesome gift. […]

QCon London 2012 Philip Wadler Answers “What is a Monad?”

09 March 2012 Comments off

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Today, I am at the final day of the QCon London 2012 conference in partuculary in the Scala and Functional Languages track. Philip Wadler gave an excellent presentation on functional programming and his belief about lambda calculas, mathematical formal logic and an advanced computer science. At the end of his talk, there was a lot […]

Devoxx 2011 European JUG Leaders BOF Video

01 March 2012 Comments off

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I really apologise for being very late with this. Sorry about that. However, the European JUG Leaders BOF Video from Devoxx 2011 is finally here in all of its glory. Enjoy for real now     Plus there is a more friendly URL https://vimeo.com/peterpilgrim/devoxx11-europeans-jug-leaders-bof PS: There JUG leaders here from North and South America, Africa […]

Looking Forward to QCon London 2012

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As I write this, today is 29th February 2012, a leap year and day. Tomorrow will be first day of March, which also the same month that QCon London 2012 takes place. I was due to give an updated JavaFX tutorial, on the Tuesday university, but it did not work out in the time. I […]

Windows 7 Driver Conflicts Drove Me To Distraction

29 February 2012 Comments off

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I have an older now Dell Inspiron M1530 XPS laptop, which I upgraded to Windows 7 in 2010. I found it incredibly brain-dead that we as engineer, let alone an end-user consumer, are suffering from driver conflicts.  HV40 Camcorder The first discovery of this mundanity was a simple firewire port IEEE 1394 with Windows 7 […]

Contemplating Social Networks

28 February 2012 Comments off

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I have taken some time out from social networking to contemplate life and existence. Don’t worry I am not going religious or start delivering edicts, rants, or sermons. I just concentrated on being an observer and I asked myself the question, why do people tweet, write blogs, and push content on Facebook, or Google+? Is […]

From Large to Small

15 January 2012 Comments off

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About seven weeks ago now [Editor: 15 January 2012], I walked into to the office of IB Boost Limited. I surprised myself at the end of my journey. It was a new challenge and I was looking forward to it. When I left Lloyds Banking Group twelve months earlier or so, I knew that was […]

2011 The Year of Chasing Pavements

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I remember the year 2010 for the FIFA World Cup Final in South Africa watching the amazing tournament matches on BBC TV. Sadly, 2010 marked end of the JAVAWUG, I stopped leading the Java User Group, because attendance to the monthly talks nosedived in the summer mouths. I had had enough of running a user […]

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