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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…
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How Big is IoT?

Since this is my first blog post at SEP I should probably explain the title of my blog “Another Cloud Joke and the Internet of What?”.  I have been working with cloud technologies for 5 years now and telematics and connectivity for over 20 years.  As a Cloud Architect I have heard every type of […]
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Visual Design for Mobile Apps: meHive Case Study

I don’t often get to share a behind the scenes look at my visual designs, to walk others through the iterations leading up to the version that actually is used. But now that meHive, a relationship management app a team of SEPeers built, has been retired, I thought this would be a good time to […]
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meHive, an experiment in product development

From time to time, SEP makes forays into product development.  As a service company, we face many challenges as we do this, the single biggest challenge being allocation of dedicated resources to work on the product.  Since our revenue is intimately connected with our people, it is difficult to tie them up in an effort […]
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The Future is Optional

Matt Swanson made a post[1] on his blog concerning the Optional type[2]. I think it’s pretty good; go ahead and read it. The gist is that the Optional type allows a programer to communicate the intent behind a parameter in a function. A function utilizing an optionally typed parameter is telling any consumers of that […]
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Ollert Is Now Open Source

Ollert, the Trello data analytics tool, has been open sourced under GNU Affero GPL v3.0. The source code can be found on Github and I’ve already accepted several pull requests. Why? I’ve been working towards this for a few months now. Although Ollert was a lot of fun to create and has helped quite a […]
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Creating Debian Files by Hand

As part of some recent project work, our team encountered the need to install an application remotely to a set of internationally spread developers using an Ubuntu environment. So to help spread some knowledge and serve as a resource for furture developers who may be sharing a similar problem – here’s how we learned to […]
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Lessons learned from Moving from ASP.NET Webforms to ASP.NET MVC.

A few months ago a client came to us and asked for our help with rewriting a couple of their high volume pages in ASP.NET MVC. The current application was written using ASP.NET webforms in the .NET 4.5 framework. We did something similar a few years back so we thought this task would be a walk […]
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A brief take on security in Ubuntu

In Ubuntu, the first wall of security comes in the form of a special user account called root. Root has the ability to perform any operation on the system. To protect users or crackers from using root to harm the system, no user can actually login as root. Instead, users perform actions with root privileges […]
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Recursive Breadth-first Traversal

One of my coworkers [1] brought to my attention an interesting problem. What’s the best way to run a breadth-first traversal on a tree data structure using recursion?  He already had an initial algorithm working correctly, but it had some unfortunate characteristics that made it less than ideal.  I haven’t dealt directly with the plethora […]
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