I've been asked this more than once, but eventually got around to doing a video about it. Rumor has it that California is "business-unfriendly," and, if you live there, you should start a business in another state. What's my take on that?

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Salesforce Test Automation: What Every Engineer Should Know

Key Components of a CI/CD Pipeline

It's a situation that a lot of techies can relate to. Someone comes along and offers you a stake in their business, instead of money, if you build their vision for them. What should a freelancer do in this situation?

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Oracle testing

8 CI/CD Best Practices for Your DevOps Journey

We've all heard the phrase "hake it 'til you make it." A reader asked me if this is a good mantra to live by.

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Data: What Is DevSecOps?

Key Components of a CI/CD Pipeline

At the time of recording, there's a good bit of uncertainty about the economy. Against that backdrop, as a freelancer, should you approach your work differently?

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Wire Transfer? Check? Cash? If you're just starting out as a freelancer, what's the best way to get paid?

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One of the questions that came up in my reader/viewer backlog was specific to me and my background. What is/was my worst experience with a client?

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• Using Pytest Fixtures: A Step-by-Step Guide With Examples

There are all kinds of people billing themselves as (non-athletic) "coaches" out there. As someone looking to go freelance, is becoming a coach a good line of work to get into, specifically in the B2B/professional world?

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• Learn Regression testing

It's common (at least in the US) for employees to furnish "references," which are essentially friends or colleagues who vouch for them as character witnesses. As a freelancer, should you also do this?

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• Test Environments: Why You Need Them and How to Set It Up

When you're an employee, you probably only really think about taxes once per year. But what about as a freelancer? Well... it's a little more complicated than that.

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• Get Started With Salesforce QA and Testing: A Tutorial

In this video I field a question about how much per day or per week a freelancer should work. That's not really an easy question to answer because, in a sense, it's not the right question.

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Link of the week:

• Testim Salesforce Testing