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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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Lessons learned from Moving from ASP.NET Webforms to ASP.NET MVC.

A few months ago a client came to us and asked for our help with rewriting a couple of their high volume pages in ASP.NET MVC. The current application was written using ASP.NET webforms in the .NET 4.5 framework. We did something similar a few years back so we thought this task would be a walk […]
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Raman Ohri Appointed President of SEP

Carmel, IN – Software Engineering Professionals (SEP), a leader in custom software development, announces the appointment of Raman Ohri as President. Jeff Gilbert, previously in this role, will remain as CEO. Since becoming an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) in 2010, Gilbert’s succession planning has been at the top of his priority list. “One of […]
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professional development book club meeting and talking

Building a Better Book Group

A little while back, there was a discussion around SEP about how to best keep track of the books we read for our own professional development. Notably, how to share our thoughts and reviews in an easy-to-use way. We had a solution, but in order to avoid swearing, we won’t talk about it now. We […]
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6 Steps to Better Innovation

Chris Shinkle, Director of Innovation at Software Engineering Professionals (SEP), presents “6 Steps to Better Innovation”
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RavenDB and MongoDB: Not easily interchangeable (at least not always)

On a recent internal project, we experimented with various NoSQL database back-ends. The project had used MongoDB since its inception. However, due to some memory issues, we wanted to evaluate other document database back-ends. In the end, we selected RavenDB for evaluation. The good First, I want to mention the things I liked about using RavenDB: There […]
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My year as an apprentice software engineer

This post originally appeared on Ryan’s personal blog The unlikely programmer Music theory was my ‘thing’ from the time I was 10, so naturally that’s what I studied in college. Years later I found programming and, realizing a better thing when I saw one, I switched ‘things.’ After attending the Institute of Whatever the Search […]
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SEP Partners with Gleaners to Provide Food for Hungry Hoosiers

One in eight Hoosiers struggles with hunger. Gleaners Food Bank was founded in 1980 with the simple mission to fight this crisis. Annually, more than 260,000 Indiana residents receive assistance from Gleaners Food Bank, of which more than 30,000 are seniors and nearly 100,000 are children. That’s why the work Gleaners does in 21 counties […]
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Collaboration versus Competition part 2

In my previous post I discussed the problem of expecting a candidate with a competitive mindset to work in a collaborative environment. This time I would like to focus on the experiences that have led to a successful integration. I ended with a few notes on Team-Think. The goal of Team-Think is to alter the […]
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Builds should fail sometimes

Reposted from my personal blog “Well, you don’t want your builds to succeed all the time…” I remember hearing that for the first time a year or two ago and thinking to myself “that’s probably one of those counter-intuitive truths that make a lot of sense in the context of Agile. This guy is probably some kind […]
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