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Meet Your JavaOne 2011 Rich Media Track Reviewer

24 July 2011 Comments off

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In April, 2011, I received one morning an email from Simon Ritter one of Sun Microsystems long standing Java Evangelists and now Oracle. The message was an invitation to be a part of Java SE, Client Side Technologies, and Rich User Experiences track. The track included all JavaFX sessions submitted along with any other UI […]

Scalafication of an Equity Quote Application Part 2

23 July 2011 2 comments

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In Part 1 of this article, we discussed the Java language form of an exercise project. The task was to create an equity quote application that retrieved stock prices from a public web service Yahoo! Finance. Let me suggest a really good process of adopting Scala inside the organisation: take the unit tests written in […]

Scalafication of a Java Equity Quote Application Part 1

01 July 2011 2 comments

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Here follows in these series of three article is a description of Scala application that ported from Java. I would prefer to call this work a “Scalafication”. Many people are thinking about Scala Adoption as it gets important interest from the wider community. Did you know that Professor Martin Odersky won the Java Top Ambassador […]

The Collective Summer Camp UK

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  Hi Everyone! I am sorry if this has taken longer to announce than when I first tweeted it on Twitter on Sunday 25th August 2011. I am organising the first Collective Sumer Camp UK, which inspired by my experience of attending the JavaPosse Round Up for three years in a row (2009, 2010, and […]

Money

24 June 2011 Comments off

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Prince And The New Generation – Don’t Matter 2 Nite – One of the Purple Man’s very best songs that he has ever written, sung and performed. I remember listening to this sound way back in the 1990s. The first time was during my time beating the recession in the 1990s. There was no Euro. […]

Scala Adoption Seems To Be Going Well

23 June 2011 4 comments

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  So I was at the Scala Exchange at Skills Matter last week. It was a really great mini-conference that happened in the middle of personal awkward time, a somewhat busy and confusing place in my space-time, my corner of the universe. Thanks for the invitation by Skills Matter as London’s only Java Champion, one […]

JavaPosse Round Up 2011 Closing Session Episode 343.5

06 June 2011 3 comments

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  Hello there! This is a blog entry is just an embedded Vimeo Plug-in. It is my video recording of the JavaPosse Round-Up 2011 closing session. I edited it a couple of months ago and locked it privately and now it is time to unlock it. I always take a video camcorder to Colorado for […]

Scala Adoption: Learn A New Language People!

01 June 2011 Comments off

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Yay! The Scala Adoption (Episode 353) session from JavaPosse Round Up 2011 has been released. You can listen to the JavaPosse podcast episodes online at The Lounge or try this German website directly Podcast.de. The session was proposed by Diane Marsh and myself.  There is not much more I can say to add to the […]

Benefits of Good Communication

17 May 2011 Comments off

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This article is sponsored by TLC Powertalk and written by Peter Pilgrim   Presentation Courses, 121 Communication Training, Personal Impact, Speaker, NLP Skills Visit https://www.tlcpowertalk.com/   If you have one member in a SCRUM team that is not an effective communicator than your team is performing sub optimally. The benefits of good communication are important […]

JavaPosse Episode 342 JPR 11

01 May 2011 Comments off

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A short blog entry then … Here is two video recordings of the Java Posse Round-Up 2011 podcast, episode 342, in to two parts. This JavaPosse and all of us who attending the Round-Up this year, Thursday night, 24th February in the parish church.   Please enjoy responsibility JavaPosse Episode 342 JPR11 Part One from […]

Finished at Fifty: Is This The Future Abyss That We Are All Looking At?

25 April 2011 Comments off

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  @peter_pilgrim: Ow! I watched panorama via the iplayer finished at fifty https://tinyurl.com/3dm2yzn and the future  prospects were bleak @imccaffery: @peter_pilgrim i know the future is bleak i was on the programme   British Television viewers are probably very familiar with Panorama, the investigative journal program on the terrestrial  BBC ONE TV. I watched this […]

JavaPosse Episode 347: Technical Leadership

21 April 2011 Comments off

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On a much happier note – Yes. You can breathe a sign of relief at this blog entry – I have time to tell you about Episode 347 of the JavaPosse podcast. This was record at the Round-Up 2011, in Crested Butte, Colorado in February. This was the session that I hosted and shared, called […]

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