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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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Machine Learning for Classifying Turbine Engine Performance

Introduction Machine learning is at least as old as Arthur Samuel’s attempts to improve his checkers playing programs back in the 1950s (Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers), if not older still.  Despite being around for decades, machine learning has received intense interest recently from the public, the scientific community, and […]
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Angular – Dynamically Loading External Libraries

The Setup: I am on a project for a fairly large client. There are multiple teams, and they all depend on each other to varying degrees. This client requested an Angular application with features which would essentially be sub-applications. A proof-of-concept (POC) was spiked out a few months prior, which dynamically imported one Angular app […]
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SEP Named a Best Place to Work for 10th Consecutive Year

SEP was recently named as one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana. This 14th annual program was created by the Indiana Chamber of Commerceand Best Companies Group. This statewide survey and awards program is designed to identify, recognize and honor the participating employers in Indiana with the leading workplace cultures. The list is […]
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SEP Earns Bronze-Level Bicycle Friendly Business Designation

Washington, DC: The League of American Bicyclists, a national bicycling and advocacy organization of nearly 20,000 members, has recognized SEP with a prestigious Bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Business (BFB) certification. With the announcement of 82 new and renewing BFBs across the country, SEP joins a growing list of 1,314 local businesses, government agencies, and Fortune 500 […]
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Automatically keeping Git identities distinct between accounts

I’ve ended up with multiple GitHub identities. One for personal use, another for SEP use, and still more for many of our clients. Leaning on Git conditional includes, and a bit of manual work upfront, my GitHub identities can be “automatically” kept distinct. Like many people, I’ve setup a global Git configuration for my name […]
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SEP CEO Announces Retirement

**SEP CEO Announces Retirement **After 30 years at SEP, Jeff Gilbert is stepping down as company’s CEO Carmel-based software product design and development company, SEP, has announced that founder and CEO, Jeff Gilbert will be retiring from the company, effective March 31, 2019. Gilbert will remain on the Board of Directors as Chair Emeritus for […]
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Conducting Good Retrospectives

Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash Your team has probably experienced moments of success or failure, moments of working like a well oiled machine or not being able to stand the sound of each other’s voices. What you’ve probably also done is pass these moments by without taking time to ponder “Why did these things […]
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Prevent Signal/Slot Memory Leaks in Python

When using Qt in python, any QObject with a connection to at least one of its signals is not eligible for garbage collection. This makes it very easy to have memory leaks when using dynamically created QWidgets. In order to not leak memory, you must disconnect any slots from all signals on the QObject before […]
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Email: A Different Kind of User Interface

When I set out to make Apple Health Report, I knew I wanted more than just myself to be able to use it. Aside: The real impetus was a new fitness reimbursement program at SEP that I could get reimbursed for working out without having to go to the gym. I wanted all the reporting/math […]
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