Author: Larry Battle

I love to program, and discover new tech. Check out my stackoverflow and github accounts.

Book review for “Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months”

I'm my own boss
I'm my own boss

Here’s a book review I did on amazon.com

I’ve started a few small businesses that failed because of poor planning & structure.
Seeking for a change, I picked up this highly rated book on entrepreneurship to find out the essential skills and techniques needed to build a successful company.
Having finished this book, I’ve found what I’ve been searching for and realized my mistakes.
For example, I’m now aware that before I start my next company I need to develop a solid business plan, eliminate my debt, save up a year worth of operational cost and read this book again.
I really enjoyed reading this book since it’s simple, straight forwards and offers “Emerson’s Action Steps”, a list summarizing each chapter.

This book covers all the aspects of a start-up, from forming a life and financial plan to marketing and hiring employees.
I recommend “Become your own boss in 12 months” for anyone starting up a business, whether on-line or off-line.

Thanks Melinda Emerson for sharing your insightful knowledge to the world.

Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months

Larry Battle

Larry Battle

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Video of the day: New device makes wheelchairs obsolete

Larry Battle

Larry Battle

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Strange Windows Error

Here’s a strange Windows Error.
A file and folder can’t have the same name.

Note: The folder name must include the extension of the file name for the error message to appear.

Larry Battle

Larry Battle

I love to program, and discover new tech. Check out my <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/users/527776/larry-battle">stackoverflow</a> and <a href="https://github.com/LarryBattle">github</a> accounts.

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js2coffee.org helps your learn coffeescript faster

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Coffee-script is a smoking hot simple language that converts 100% into Javascript code. Coffee-script allows you to spend more time focusing on the algorithm rather than the syntax.
js2coffee.org is an awesome website that converts your Coffee-script to Javascript and vice versa on the fly. So you can learn Coffee-script faster.
Example:
Let’s convert my Random Number Generator code from a previous post to Coffee-script.

// Javascript version
var getRandomNum = function( i, decLen ){
	return (Math.random() * (i||1) ).toFixed(decLen);
};

# My Coffee-script version
getRandomNum = ( i=1, decLen ) -> (Math.random()*i).toFixed(decLen)

# js2coffee.org Coffee-script verison
getRandomNum = (i, decLen) ->
	(Math.random() * (i or 1)).toFixed decLen

Awesome huh?

Check out a demo of Coffeescript here.

I’ll like to leave you with a HTML5 Coffee-script presentation.

Cheers.

Larry Battle

Larry Battle

I love to program, and discover new tech. Check out my <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/users/527776/larry-battle">stackoverflow</a> and <a href="https://github.com/LarryBattle">github</a> accounts.

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