by Greg Turnquist | Dec 6, 2016 | writing
In the previous article, Building your Platform – Part II, we discussed how to integrate blogging with social media and why it’s good to write more on your own platform, while using social media as a channel to reach others. This week we are going to talk...
by Greg Turnquist | Nov 29, 2016 | writing
Last week, we took a dive into Building Your Platform – Part I. We learned why it’s important to start building our own site, yesterday. Over time, a site can turn into a key part of your platform. In this post, we can see what role social media should...
by Greg Turnquist | Nov 25, 2016 | learning spring boot
About 1:00am yesterday morning, I sent in the text for Chapter 9, Securing Your App with Spring Boot to my publisher for Learning Spring Boot. I decided to take things to the next level in security by locking down a microservice-based solution. I spent about three...
by Greg Turnquist | Nov 22, 2016 | writing
Something I run into time and again is this concept known as Building Your Platform. I’ve decided to provide some useful bits of knowledge I’ve acquired through a series of blog posts. What’s a platform? For starters, what is a platform anyway? When...
by Greg Turnquist | Nov 15, 2016 | darklight, writing
I’ve been writing Darklight for six years now. At first, it was things like Deep Point of View (POV), cutting out adverbs, and other bits of writing craft. Then I yanked out things like explaining too much, removing every expression, every phrase, every word...
