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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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Training using Study Groups

Since I have started working at SEP I have been invited to a number of training sessions where an outside trainer is brought in and we get a mix of lecture and exercises for a couple of days then the trainer goes home. The last training I attended was a Jeff Patton training on Story […]

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Case Study: SEP Use of MadCap Flare

Leading Provider of Customized Software Solutions Uses MadCap Flare to Synchronize Three Online Help Systems and Print Manual with New Software Releases New case study from MadCap Software examines how single-sourcing and Microsoft TFS integration for version control enable SEP to deliver three online Help systems and a PDF manual from one central Flare-based project. […]

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One Small Step Toward TDD, One Small Leap for SEP

One small Step Toward TDD I have been reading about TDD and unit testing for about 7 years now and have not fully adopted TDD. It has a ton of time tested benefits including writing less production code, writing simpler code, making your code easier to change, making your code easier to test and the […]

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Android UI/X – don’t go overboard with your list views

The Android ListView is one of the simplest UI widgets to implement. There are plenty of ListView tutorials and examples, so I’m not going to talk about how to implement a list. Instead, I’m going to focus on the User Experience and ways to improve your lists. To see a really well implemented ListView, take […]

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Unwinding

Though this blog has focused on a means to improve one’s professional success, there are many other means by which life can be measured, and although I don’t feel my job defines who I am, I accept the fact that I will spend a significant portion of my life at my job. Even assuming I […]

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Android AsyncTasks, for updating your UI

Last time, I talked about how to use Android Handlers for handling a blocking task in the background. While Handlers are very powerful, they can easily get too complicated for larger tasks. This time, let’s take a look at the Android AsyncTasks. AsyncTask enables proper and easy use of the UI thread. This class allows to […]

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On Recognizing Good People

As a leader, recognizing good people for their work and effort is both the most important and most difficult things that you can do. I learned this during my time in the Army and have carried it through my life for the past ~16 years. As a leader you must earn the trust of those […]

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SEP Ranked a 2012 Best Place to Work

News Release – February 21, 2012 Indianapolis, Ind. — A total of 70 companies have been designated a 2012 “Best Place to Work in Indiana” for creating a productive environment in which employees feel valued, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce announced today. This is the seventh year for the Best Places to Work in Indiana […]

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Skills that I Look for in a Software Engineer

I’ve been with SEP for the past five years, starting right after I graduated from college. A few years ago I joined the recruiting team for SEP, and I’ve been focused mainly on recruiting for our engineering positions. Recruiting has been busy again recently – career fairs, interviews, interns, etc. In the spirit of the […]

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