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November 3, 2022October 24, 2022 Interviews 2.0

Quiet Quitting or Silent Striking : Gregory Offner Part 3

We continue our discussion with Gregory Offner and look into quiet quitting. This phenomenon can be fixed through motivation. Thus, investing in your staff can help them grow and help the organization avoid employee disengagement. The result of investing in your employees is engagement and that provides a win-win situation. They get more out of their job, and you get more productive employees. Quiet Quitting is Just Disengagement The term quiet quitting is fairly new. However, the sentiment is ages old. It all boils down to employees falling into a rut. They feel under-utilized, unappreciated, or trap in a dead-end job. That leads to disengagement and a lack of getting their best out of them. That is a problem no... Read more

November 2, 2022October 29, 2022 Testing

Testing with AssertJ

Welcome to another edition of Developreneur. Today we are going to be talking about AssertJ packages. AssertJ is a fluent assertion library in Java for unit testing. Therefore, instead of using the traditional JUnit Assert class, we will discuss this new library, AssertJ. Today we’ll be looking at unit testing with Assert J. We’ll briefly talk about the differences between assertions and why they’re essential within unit testing. And then, we’re going to go into a full HandsOn presentation using assert j methods and chaining within our unit testing. What is Unit Testing? Let’s begin by talking about unit testing. Unit testing is software testing, where we test the individual units of our source code. Here we focus on testing particular methods... Read more

November 1, 2022October 24, 2022 Interviews 2.0

Root Goal Analysis – Gregory Offner Part 2

This episode of our Gregory Offner interview series looks at root goal analysis. He shares his story and how it can be used to create a pattern interrupt that helps others. We can all find ourselves in a rut and with an improper focus. The discussion here goes into how we should review our goals and set them to truly achieve our wants and desires. Root Goal Analysis – A Proper Focus Life is full of distractions. That includes things that can make us think we are progressing towards our objectives but are leading us away. For example, a job that supports a hobby instead of turning that hobby into our job. While there are many things we have to... Read more

October 27, 2022September 30, 2023 Interviews 2.0

Turn Around Tragedy To Find Your Why : Greg Offner Interview

This episode starts a master class in how to turn around tragedy as we talk with Greg Offner. His story is mesmerizing, and he does a pretty darn good job sharing it. Just kidding, Greg is an incredible guest and I think you will want to buckle in as we discuss a broad range of topics. Whether you are trying to find your happiness, build and retain a team, or learn a little about approach avoidance, it is all here. Turn Around Tragedy From One Who Has Most of us understand that life has some “ah-ha” moments and even those that slap us in the face. Greg has a story that starts from one of the latter situations. He had... Read more

October 25, 2022October 19, 2022 Interviews 2.0

Search Improvement Through Long tail Keywords – SEO Optimizers Interview

We wrap up our interview with Brandon Leibowitz of SEO Optimizers with insight into long tail keywords and how modern searches are made. This discussion provides some important considerations when you are thinking about search. That includes the idea that almost every search Google sees is new. The advance of voice recognition and mobile searches gives us almost infinite variations on search. What Are Long Tail Keywords? We skip over what a long tail search is and thus a definition of long tail keywords. Think of each additional word on a search a filter or qualifier. For example, a search of “cars ford sedan blue used” is far more specific than “blue cars”. That is how we get into a niche. We... Read more

October 20, 2022October 13, 2022 Interviews 2.0

Backlinks and Playing Nice With Google – SEO Optimizers Interview

Part two of our interview with Brandon Leibowitz of SEO Optimizers progresses into placement and backlinks. We look at how sites get ranked for search results and the general rules for SEO. This episode is one of those where it is good to take notes. Likewise, it can be very motivating to go back and address your approach to keywords, backlinks, and search in general. The Value of Backlinks Google has a complex approach to search, but in some ways, it is still simple. Their goal is to give the customer what they want. Thus, they look at a search and then where other sites point to a page as results for that search. A backlink is, generally speaking, a reference.... Read more