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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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Ollert, the Trello data analytics tool, has been open sourced under GNU Affero GPL v3.0. The source code can be found on Github and I’ve already accepted several pull requests. Why? I’ve been working towards this for a few months now. Although Ollert was a lot of fun to create and has helped quite a […]
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Creating a portable JDK with PowerShell
At times, I’ve found myself wanting to have a specific JDK available without installing another version of Java. Past reasons include wanting to test multiple Java versions on the same system or needing to use a Java tool (ex. JConsole) without installing additional software. With a small PowerShell script and 7-Zip installed*, you can easily […]
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Updating TimeZone in SharePoint 2013 through Powershell
Configuring time zones in SharePoint gets overlooked. It happens. SharePoint was up and running for over a year and no one really noticed that every new site was created with a Pacific time zone, which is not good since we are in the Eastern time zone. It went unnoticed until one engineer realized that the […]
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SEP Selected as a 2015 Best Places to Work in Indiana Finalist
SEP has been named by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce as one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana. The 100 companies selected were chosen out of a record number of applicants. These top companies in the state were determined through employer reports and comprehensive employee surveys. “We’re thrilled to be named a Best […]
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Managing a Go Environment in Ubuntu
Many moons ago, I wrote about setting up a Go environment in Ubuntu. After writing that post, I dropped Go development for nearly a year. Today I run the Indy Golang meetup, and soon I’ll be starting a new work project where I’ll be recommending a Go-based tech stack. I’ve learned a thing or two […]
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Personal Meditations on Software
I’ve been reading Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. I haven’t gotten far, but I like the concept of “thoughts addressed to yourself”. So when I came across Sean Cassidy’s post on collecting reminders to himself, I decided to take 15 minutes and do the same. Some of this list is very personal, other items are widely applicable. […]
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Creating Debian Files by Hand
As part of some recent project work, our team encountered the need to install an application remotely to a set of internationally spread developers using an Ubuntu environment. So to help spread some knowledge and serve as a resource for furture developers who may be sharing a similar problem – here’s how we learned to […]
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1. Big Data. 2. Now what?
True confessions: I am learning R, finally, after living and loving SPSS for many years. I am no expert in Big Data, having only been responsible for about 40GBs (about a million records of a thousand variables each) of data goodness in a previous work-life. [For an answer to What is Big Data, see this article.] […]
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2015 – Looking Ahead
The beginning of each year is often the time to look back on the previous and speak about the future. At our last company meeting we announced Raman Ohri’s promotion to President of SEP. Raman gave the employees a great overview of where we are going and what goals he has for the company. The […]
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