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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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Sharing a git stash or single commit with another developer is a pretty easy task, but sometimes I forget EXACTLY what I need to type in to make it work the way I want. Also, BONUS section below for a new thing I learned the last time I did it (yesterday!). I found myself needing a […]
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My takeaways from AgileIndy 2018
This year I finally decided to attend AgileIndy, although I’ve been toying with the idea for several years, and have been trying to practice (successfully or unsuccessfully) agile methods for over 10 years. I’m glad I finally did, because every session I attended had something that I could take away with me (I now have […]
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On tests and testing
Hello, gentle reader. Please allow me to rock your entire human face by dropping this truth bomb: Tests are about more than testing. “Obviously!” you yell, your riposte ringing out triumphantly against what is seemingly a rather anemic statement. The truth bomb has failed to detonate. Your entire human face remains unrocked. If you’ve ever […]
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Dear Intern/New Hire: How to Be an Effective New Person
Dear intern/new hire, Welcome! I’m sure you are excited about your new position and can’t wait to meet your team. First, let’s address some common fears that new people have and make sure we’re all on the same page here. As an intern or new hire, it’s likely that you will be the least experienced […]
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Reading Lately — Teams, Orgs, and Vision
Previously I shared my “Reading Lately” list with a few books about motivation. Each publication from that list is still relevant in my thoughts, actions, and discussions with others at SEP. This time I am sharing 4 books that have greatly influenced the way I think about working collaboratively with people — whether on a […]
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Rose-Hulman Honors Raman Ohri with Career Achievement Award
SEP President Raman Ohri has been named a 2017-2018 Rose-Hulman Career Achievement Award Winner. Each year, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology honors alumni with the Career Achievement Award. Recipients of this award have graduated 20+ years ago and are selected based on their achievements within their communities and respective professions. Raman joined SEP in 1993, […]
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How to Migrate from Heroku Continuous Integration (CI) to Jenkins on AWS Like a Pro
In a recent blog post, I spoke about a migration from Heroku to AWS. I discussed the solution that Todd Trimble and I did for a client project. If you are interested in the backstory of this migration, you should check that out. In this post, I would like to dive into what we did […]
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Should my mobile app be free or paid?
Recently, we helped a client build their first software product: an iOS app. When it came time to release the app into the App Store, our client asked an innocent question: “So…should our app be free or paid?” We were able to advise them on a direction that made sense for their project, but I […]
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Building with Elm at SEP Makes
Preface For the last few months, I’d been working on my side project Contact, a JSON REST API written with Elixir and Phoenix, designed to be the backend to an instant messaging platform. I thought that SEP’s semi-annual hackathon: SEP: Makes, would be the perfect time to make a front end application for Contact, but […]
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