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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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Task 2: What is Agile Testing?

I wrote a blog post giving an introduction to the 30 days of testing challenge that I am doing. Task 2 of the challenge is to write down what I think Agile Testing is. As I was thinking about this one night, I decided to jot down my thoughts. Introspective The term Agile Testing confuses […]
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30 Days of Testing

Last month I learned about an agile testing challenge by the Ministry of Testing. The rules are simple: Complete 31 tasks in 30 days. Share your progress with the hashtag #30daysoftesting on any social media site. Here is the list of tasks the Ministry of Testing published: I first thought “Wow this is great, is […]
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Professional Development at SEP

You’re always behind the curve. You can never catch up. There is no leading, you’re always chasing. That is what it feels like as a software engineer these days. Technology is moving at breakneck speed. Five new React competitors came out this morning. Rails is old; Elm is new. Elm!? Back in my day that […]
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A minor shift in mindset that improved my SQL

I am currently working on a project that involves writing stored functions in PostgreSQL. Typically the goal is one SQL query that returns all the data needed by a particular web page. At first I approached this from an Object Oriented perspective with a focus on minimizing redundant data. This led me down the path […]
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Software Truths

Thanks to Jeff Patton for inspiring us to design new artwork inside the SEP Product Design Studio. Jeff has used these points in many of his presentations and it was too good not to recreate. Software Truths PDF
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From Terrible Things Come Innovation

As a software architect, I do what I can to stay abreast of the world around me. As new technologies, design patterns, and so on emerge, I try to learn enough about them to make informed decisions on where they might prove useful or if I can safely ignore them. I think about their relevance […]
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Replacing TET

By : Elliot Yesmunt, Software Engineering Intern About half of my summer here at SEP has been spent developing a front-end for the new time-entry tool. As work for my team’s client-facing project came to a lull, we sought a way to learn the React JavaScript framework which has become very popular in the last […]
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Jon Fuller Named Tech 25 Winner

  In 2015, TechPoint launched the Tech 25 Awards, a prestigious selection of twenty-five individuals who are critical and exceptional performers helping to grow our community’s tech and tech-enabled companies, but who — not being the CEO or other C-suite executives — don’t get celebrated publicly as often as they deserve. Jon Fuller, Director of […]
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Looking Back on the Summer 2017 Intern Experience

As the summer wraps up and our summer interns are returning to school, we’ve asked them to reflect on their experiences this summer. Here’s what they have to say: Adam Tapper: “My summer at SEP was an unforgettable experience. I really enjoyed getting to work in an atmosphere that was fun and professional; the people […]
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