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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award

SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Tech Employer, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana – SEP has been named Exceptional Employer by TechPoint at the 26th annual Mira Awards. This award recognizes companies that are developing talent through skills-based hiring…

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Testing the API with Jasmine

The API created in the previous step did not have any tests. It is now time to start to rectify that. As before, in addition to the example code below, the full code for the tests is available. Adding Jasmine specifications The tests are written in Jasmine, a behavior-driven development testing framework. The tests are written as […]

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Building an API with Node, Express, and Mongoose

The first step in creating the example application is to create an API for the application to interact with. Node, Express, and Mongoose are used to create a REST API. In addition to the example code below, the full code for the API is available. Environment setup To support the API, Node and MongoDB need […]

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Building an application with Backbone workflows

A non-typical Backbone example When you start looking into Backbone, you may notice that many of the readily available example sites are setup in the same pattern: display a list of things with a list view and a details. This kind of of example plays to the strengths of the Backbone API. It has some […]

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Merging Contact Groups into Lync 2013 Clients across the Enterprise

While getting ready to deploy Lync 2013 at our company, I came across two problems: A. There is not an easy way to browse a company directory with Lync 2013 clients 2. There is not an easy way to push contact group lists to Lync 2013 clients Create distribution groups Although Lync can search for […]

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Ollert – Reveal the Data Behind Your Trello Boards

Introducing Ollert, a tool to show you what your Trello boards can’t tell you on their own. Trello does a great job of telling you about the here and now of your Trello boards; who’s working on what task and what is the current state of a task. But what if I want to know about the state […]

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A Template for Lunches

If you want to show anything on your page, you’re going to have to write a template. A template is the html to display on each page view. And if you use resources, they nest! Ember, by default, uses the Handlebars template engine. Lunchtime! It’s a Friday and I want ribs for lunch. But I […]

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Human Complexity: It’s Not Just for Psych Majors Anymore!

There are complex systems, and then there are Complex Systems. And nothing makes a system more complex than dealing with people. People make things complicated. Let’s look at an example. I’ve recently been working on an employee time tracking tool. One of the tasks that this tool does is verification of a timesheet: are the minimum […]

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Using GitLab’s web hooks with Crucible

We have made available a new tool, Crucible Hook, to allow GitLab to notify Crucible about new commits. Rather than having external services (Crucible, Jenkins, etc.) constantly poll your Git server checking for updates, it can often be advantageous to use commit hooks instead. Using commit hooks removes often unnecessary Git operations (polling when there are […]

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Helpful Mobile Development Libraries: Alamofire and SwiftyJSON

Since my first post about ZipGet, other Swift programmers have published some nifty libraries, namely Alamofire and SwiftyJSON. Alamofire comes from the makers of AFNetworking, a ubiquitous and handy networking library for iOS. Unlike AFNetworking, though, Alamofire is written completely in Swift. SwiftyJSON does not boast as illustrious a pedigree as Alamofire, but it greatly […]

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