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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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Collaboration versus Competition

Working with others is never easy. It takes hard work and the proper mindset to accomplish. This is a lesson taught to small children with varying degrees of success. I learned from an early age that sharing was important. I was taught to play well with others and to understand that others have needs that […]
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Tech Lead Training

One of the goals that I have set for myself over the past several years was to start to train engineers in a semiformal manner. This goal would accomplish a few things: Long term team viability Not everyone will want to stay on the same project long term Not everyone will want to stay on […]
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SEP History Lesson: When an Enthusiastic Newbie Convinced Us to Get a Fish Tank

I’ve had several people tell me they liked the new fishtank design (thank you!), and it was suggested that I do a write-up about the tank.  I’m always happy to talk about it!  I’ll start with some history… How it Began It all started around 10 years ago.  I was interviewing for a position at SEP, […]
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Software Producer: What’s in a name?

SEP had an interesting time establishing the title of Software Producer. We wanted it to mean something, like “Software Engineering Professionals” is not just our name; it’s who we are. Not a Product Manager When looking into the activities that our Software Producer perform, there is a lot of overlap with a Product Manager. That title is […]
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Meet the Software Producer

It isn’t every day that a new title is introduced around here. And I get to have the fun of helping define it, because I’m one of the few on the block with that new title: Software Producer. Why do we need a new title? SEP grew out of an engineering focus from its inception. Do the […]
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Merging Contact Groups into Lync 2013 Clients across the Enterprise

While getting ready to deploy Lync 2013 at our company, I came across two problems: A. There is not an easy way to browse a company directory with Lync 2013 clients 2. There is not an easy way to push contact group lists to Lync 2013 clients Create distribution groups Although Lync can search for […]
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Have a MSDN subscription? Then start using your free monthly Azure credits!

SEP’s got a handful of unassigned MSDN subscriptions. We recently started a project that uses Visual Studio Online, so those of us on the team were assigned subscriptions so that we could actually use the VSO service. We got through Sprint 1 and found out that the integrated code review support in Visual Studio 2013 […]
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What is a startup?

I want to ask a question, give my opinion, and complain about something. “What is a startup?” I’ve run into two schools of thought on what a startup is. The Webster’s Camp The fine folk at Webster’s use this definition “a fledgling business enterprise”.  I would phrase it as “A business that is just starting”.  […]
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There is more to it than code

There are activities — other than programming on client work — that are key parts of working in the software industry. If you work for a software company and you want to do, e.g. Ember.js work, you should be: Going to local Javascript meetups (networking, public speaking) Reading and writing JS blogs (professional development, technical […]
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