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Becoming a Successful Java Consultant

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Michael Harry Scepaniak's blog. Becoming a Successful Java Consultant. April 18, 2013. I] saw that you are a senior Java consultant for many years, which is what I want to be, too. So I thought I’d connect to you and ask what it takes to get there. Somebody actually sent this to me. Somebody that I’ve never met. Pretty cool. 🙂. So, what’s the answer? Well, first, what sort of credentials do I have that make me feel like I can or should answer this question? As far as raw technical intelligence, I don&#8...

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Warning: When To NOT Bid For Hotels Using Priceline

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Michael Harry Scepaniak's blog. Warning: When To NOT Bid For Hotels Using Priceline. January 8, 2011. Ust because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. 8212; Thomas A. Edison. I’ve gone to great lengths to explain how to save money on hotel rooms by naming your own price on Priceline. Clearly, I’m a believer. But, I will freely admit that bidding for hotel rooms using Priceline. 8211; and neither should you. Name your own price for a hotel room on Priceline if…. Pricel...

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JSF – You Can’t Submit a Disabled Form Element

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Michael Harry Scepaniak's blog. JSF – You Can’t Submit a Disabled Form Element. November 12, 2010. Previously discussed the JSF. Truism that you can’t re-render something you never rendered in the first place. Here’s another one:. You can’t submit a disabled form element. H:inputText id="newId" value="#{thePage.newId}" disabled="true" /. One efficient (but hacky and verbose) way around this is to always keep the text input element enabled from JSF’s standpoint and, instead, do it all using JavaScri...

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Stop Eating Processed Foods

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Michael Harry Scepaniak's blog. Stop Eating Processed Foods. September 2, 2014. In diet and exercise. F you couldn’t exercise for six months, do you think you’d lose. Weight – or do you think you’d gain. During the first half of this year, I had to stop doing all of my normal physical activities. I lost 21 lbs, to be exact. That was almost 12% of my bodyweight. And yet I lost weight. And yet, during that time, I had become somewhat sedentary. Hmm…. 8211; and, during this time, my exercise had largely bee...

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Uncommon Interview: Balsamiq Studios – @ASmartBear - WP Engine

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Advice from Jason Cohen. Founder of WP Engine. Join 40,000 subscribers. ASmartBear - WP Engine. Uncommon Interview: Balsamiq Studios. By Jason Cohen on. September 14, 2009. I hate most interviews. And I think everyone else does too. They’re rarely actionable or insightful. You want to learn and get specific ideas from interesting, thoughtful people, not read a biography. This interview is different. I’m starting the Uncommon Interview:. And tell me if you want more of these.). Let’s get started. About be...

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How to bring a product to market / A very rare interview with Sean Ellis - Venture Hacks

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Good advice for startups. Go To AngelList →. How to bring a product to market / A very rare interview with Sean Ellis. December 14th, 2009. Recently sat down with us and explained how to bring products to market. You should listen to this interview for ideas on how to get to product/market fit, how to measure fit, and how to survey your users so you can improve fit. If you don’t know Sean from his blog. He lead marketing from launch to IPO filing at LogMeIn and Uproar. His firm, 12in6. With Sean now they...

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How To Print Checks Without QuickBooks

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Michael Harry Scepaniak's blog. How To Print Checks Without QuickBooks. May 1, 2013. Riting checks makes me angry. Not because it represents a withdrawal from one of my accounts. I’m OK with that. I just really. Don’t enjoy engaging in the physical act of sitting down and scribbling on a piece of paper. Knowing that there are much better ways to relay money these days. I’m all about efficiency. And check-writing is all about… something else. I’ve looked at QuickBooks alternatives. Several times in the pa...

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How To Use CasperJS with Mocked Data to Test Your Site’s UI

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Michael Harry Scepaniak's blog. How To Use CasperJS with Mocked Data to Test Your Site’s UI. September 5, 2014. Id you know that you can use CasperJS. To script, in an automated fashion, usage of your site – including clicking links and filling and submitting forms? Did you also know that, if you’ve got a site where most/all of the data is being delivered straight to the browser via Ajax. Ified payloads, you can mock all of that volatile data to produce robust tests. Unfortunately, these features aren&#8...