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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award
SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Tech Employer, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named Exceptional Employer by TechPoint at the 26th annual Mira Awards. This award recognizes companies that are developing talent through skills-based hiring…
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What is software development? When we say software we typically mean a software product to sell to a market or a system to increase productivity. In both cases, doesn’t the customer have some idea of the cost and potential value before the project is initiated? If the initial estimated cost versus the expected value (Rate […]
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Ride the Wave
The more things change… The beginning of summer at SEP usually means new hires. While a few newbs come from other companies with experience already (so they aren’t really newbs), a lot we hire come fresh out of college. Thus, our vernacular: “Fresh Out” (noun) A new employee to the company, hired directly after they […]
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Default Value
In .NET we’ve got this cool little language construct called default, that’ll give you the default value for any given type. That is, null, for any reference type, or zero/false/DateTime.Min/etc. for value types. Here it is in action (nothing amazing going on here): var x =default(DateTime); So what if you don’t know the type you […]
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