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SEP Named a Best Places to Work Company for 14th Consecutive Year

SEP has once again been recognized as one of Indiana’s Best Places to Work for the 14th year consecutive year. The statewide survey and award program evaluates participating organizations and honors those with the highest levels of employee satisfaction and…

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What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Integration Testing in Flutter

Integration testing in Flutter is fairly well documented. The official docs have a get-started guide that will get you started, and it’s not hard to find answers to common issues on blogs or Stack Overflow. This isn’t going to be a walkthrough of setting up testing Flutter as the docs do a good job of […]

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Your App Uses Xamarin.Forms, but That Tech is Going Away. Don’t Panic! 😱

You may be hearing a lot of chatter about Xamarin.Forms going away. If your app is built in Xamarin.Forms, this is probably concerning news to hear. Our advice? Don’t panic! 😱 We recently sat down with Adam Livingston, Staff Software Engineer, and Charles Tippett, Engagement Manager, to get the scoop on the upcoming transition from […]

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Transferable & Soft Skills: The Unjustly Unsung Heroes of Software Development

“If you don’t figure out what you want to do for a career, you will fall behind in life.” I can remember hearing this loaded statement as early as 8th grade. Which, looking back on it, is about the equivalent of attempting to teach a dog new tricks as a squirrel scampers about in its […]

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Think Software Maintenance is Expensive? Here’s Why It’s Worth the Investment.

The world of software and software development moves at lightning speed. Every day, new tools are introduced. Languages and frameworks are upgraded. App store requirements change. Operating systems are updated. New hardware is announced. So, what happens if the software world evolves but your software codebase doesn’t? Development Tools Chain Reaction Development tools continue to […]

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Babbling on about BabylonJS

I recently had the opportunity to do some investigation / prototyping work on a website that needed to render interactive 3D models in mobile browsers. After some investigation on available technologies, I decided to give BabylonJS a try. BabylonJS has a comprehensive API, is well documented, and has an active support forum. On top of […]

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Best of 2022: SEP’s Top 6 Software Development Resources of the Year

Looking back at our most viewed software development resource articles throughout the year. #6. WSL, git, and Beyond Compare Since I’m a git command line kind of guy, being able to sudo apt install git was a slice of heaven on a Windows machine. Getting that up and running was pretty nice. However, there is […]

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Common Elements of an SEP Project Team Area

We often get asked what a typical team setup looks like at SEP. We think these elements help to make our project, client, product, and employee experience better. Kanban Board We like to use physical kanban boards to track work so everyone can see the big picture from 10 feet away. The ability to visualize […]

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Why Software Accessibility Matters

I’m a designer with Color Vision Deficiency (CVD). A lot of people, myself included, refer to CVD as “color blindness.” The term “color blind” can be a bit misleading and gives rise to all kinds of funny questions like, “What color is my shirt?” or, “How do you dress yourself?” The reality is, I do […]

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Using Azure Functions to Deliver REST API: A Step-by-Step Guide, 2/2

This is a follow-up to my previous post about hosting a simple React App in Azure, and now we’ll cover using Azure Functions to deliver REST API. I would like to begin with the caveat that both posts are meant to be used as steps to deploy to Azure as quickly as possible. Production-level apps […]

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Hosting a React Web App in Azure with CI/CD in Five Easy Steps

There are a few blog posts out there that already show you how to host a React web app in Azure, but since I encountered a few issues, I thought I’d document what worked for me. These are the very simple steps I followed to set up my web app in Azure, with continuous integration […]

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