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SEP Selected as a Nominee for TechPoint’s Innovation Mira Award

TechPoint has announced the nominees for its 25th annual Mira Awards, highlighting the most innovative companies, universities, and organizations in Indiana’s tech sector. The awards celebrate achievements across various categories, including the Innovation Partner of the Year.
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balsamiq mockups

We recently used Balsamiq Mockups to redesign a set of web pages.  I’ve done a lot of designs on paper, in HTML, using FrontPage and even Visio before, and now I know, I was doing it the hard way every time. Balsamiq offers a way to present user interface designs quickly and easily.  It has […]
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Summer Internship Opportunities at SEP

POST UPDATE: 3/1/10 SEP has filled all of our internships at this time. SEP will be traveling to Rose-Hulman (February 4th) and Purdue (February 11th) to interview students interested in software engineering internship opportunities at SEP. If you are not on one of these campuses, that’s okay too! Here are the details: SEP internships offer: […]
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Alistair-style 2009 Resolutions

@panozzoaj righteously smited new years resolutions on twitter: Do you do New Year’s Resolutions? I view them as a retrospective instead of kaizen. So inclined to not do them and instead make changes throughout the year instead. Ok, maybe not quite a righteous smite, but he should have. If you wanted to change something, why […]
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Single File Split Buffers in Visual Studio!

Man, I’d searched for this feature time and time again.  And finally found it here: https://www.kevinwilliampang.com/post/Visual-Studio-Split-Views.aspx If you don’t want to follow the link… Just double click that guy, or drag it downward, and you’ve split your file into two buffers.  Awesomeness.
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Deliberate Practice in Software

Agile 2009 Session Info Presenter: Mary Poppendieck Mary is well known as a lean software engineering leader, but gave this session talking about the idea of deliberate practice and our field. She referenced studies by Anders Ericsson about what it takes to be truly world class at something (she particularly focused on a juvenile music […]
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Liquidity in Information Work

Agile 2009 Session Info Presenter: David Anderson in an "open jam" session. Liquidity is the ability to easily turn one asset into another (not just money!). Anderson’s idea on liquidity in a software organization relates to the skills of the people on the team and how we assign them to roles/tasks. Let’s say we have […]
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LSSC 2010 Call For Papers

From https://www.limitedwipsociety.org/2009/11/15/lean-software-systems-conference-2010-atlanta/ Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 Atlanta The first Lean Software & Systems Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA between April 21st and 23rd 2010. Registration and the Call for Papers is now open at atlanta2010.leanssc.org The first 50 registrants enjoy a super early discount rate of $800 plus entry to […]
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Is source control branching a good strategy?

I’ve always wondered about whether creating source control branches for every feature is a good idea at all.  Isn’t one just postponing the problem of the big merge come release time?  I’ve always felt that working off the mainline, checking in frequently, and creating very small features is the best way to go, since at […]
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Don’t Single Me out!

In my few days of being a developer, I’ve heard and seen lots of talk about Singletons.  Things like Singletons are teh suck.  Don’t use them.  EVAR. to Singleton’s saved my life and marriage! In fact, I might’ve been the person that said both of these… gasp! I never like to speak in absolutes, so […]
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