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Wednesday 29th, July 2020 In this week’s episode, I present a Very Brief Introduction to Apache POI , creating the simplest Microsoft Excel spreadsheet ever. Here is an additional bonus, I’m using Kotlin, the programming language. I also talk about why spreadsheets are so sexy man? If you know how to work with spreadsheets in […]

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Wednesday 22nd, July 2020 This week I am going to just to write a bullet-list. I am near enough blogging weekly. Big plans laid to rest Conferences Holidays Machine Learning / Deep Learning Python However, I already have knowledge of Perl, Awk, Sed, Ed, Bash, C-shell, TCSH, ZSH, DevOps, UNIX/Linux / AWS Apache POI == […]

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2020 And yes it is impossible to reboot the year 2020. On Wednesday, 1st January 2020, I had no idea what COVID-19 meant. It might have been a News Years Day tomorrow off some infection into China, but like for many of you, I was too busy sleeping off the night’s celebrations. Little did we […]

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How to improve your performance in the tech industry? https://vimeo.com/techworkperf The best laid plans The mouse gets the cheese Interview preparation: your confidence boost First impressions Prep work How to respond to questions? How to deal with panels? Your chance to shine, how to ask questions? How to deal with pairing tests? How to deal […]

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Test-Driven Development using Kotlin (DELUXE EDITION) by Peter Pilgrim Java Champion I have now expanded this commercial video online course to over 6 hours of content. The megamix course is now rebranded as Test-Driven Development using Kotlin (DELUXE EDITION) by Peter Pilgrim Java Champion and it is available on Vimeo.           […]

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NHS COVID-19 Coupons Free access to all of my Vimeo On-Demand online courses in 2020 if you have a family member that works in the UK National Health Service.     This can be your mummy, daddy, auntie, uncle, cousins, grandparents… and even you, yourself, if you currently work for the NHS. Please Just send […]

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It’s the month of March and we are mad hatters. Here is a crazy huge discount code for my online-course on Vimeo On-Demand     MarchHare2020 75% OFF! Test-Driven Development using Kotlin *             *Offers subject to terms and condition. You need a Vimeo login account to benefit. Authors / […]

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        This is a description of a bug in Intellij IDEA where I have a Java EE 7 web application that deploys to an application server. Here, I am using TomEE 9, however the same issues happens in Payara 5.191 and the bog standard Tomcat 8 / Tomcat 9. Essential Intellij fails […]

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ANNOUNCEMENT NEW COURSE I have recorded video online lecture, online course, if you will. It is called Test-Driven Development using Kotlin by Peter Pilgrim Java Champion and it is available on Vimeo.     STOP PRESS My course is now also available at Teachable (PEAT School).   Enroll in Course   Feedback is very much […]

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Last Thursday, at Devoxx Belgium 2019, I presented a talk called “Why we pair?” This is my talk on Youtube ?       Here is feedback from my talk:   Peter Koch (@petikoch)   Ko Turk (@KoTurk77)   Gerry Noij (@Misano9699 Supreme benefits)   Gerry Noij (@Misano9699 Challengers)     Google Slides (Readonly access): […]

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Today, I gave a presentation to Go Tech World 2019 conference on Cloud Native Java – are we there yet? . In July, I received the personal invitation to speak in Bucherest, Romania from the organisers. I thought about for a bit and then accepted the great chance to talk in the Eastern frontier of […]

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First experience of AWS Summit London 2019 What problem was I looking to solve? I wanted learning more about the AWS services beyond EC2, S3 and EBS #0. I went to London’s Excel to experience Amazon’s personality, it’s brand and also to be inspired by the technology. EC2, S3 and EBS Amazon Web Services is […]