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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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This week I ran into wanting to use C# 4.0 optional parameters, but wanted StructureMap (my IoC tool of choice) to respect the default value specified for those optional parameters. The Problem In this example, we’ll be pulling a command out of the container. The important part is the optional constructor parameter (level), and it’s […]
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Book Club: ProGit
Book Club Foreword A couple years ago I brought up the idea of doing a book club here at SEP because I had participated in a couple before coming to SEP, but we called them SEDG (coined by Steve McConnell in Professional Software Development). I don’t really like that term, so we called it book […]
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IndyTechFest Recap
IndyTechFest is teh awesome! I was privileged enough to be a speaker alongside some other ridiculously awesome regional speakers (and even had a few of them IN my presentation!)… star struck having @dburton, @timwingfield, @skimedic, and other community leaders like @myotherpants and @maggielongshore in the audience. I am truly humbled. Thanks to the organizers for […]
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Cool Resource for Software Engineers
Last year we got rid of our traditional annual review system and replaced it with sensible component parts (career guidance, skill assessments, etc.) It would take several posts to explain the reasoning and mechanics, so just trust me when I say it was a Good Thing ™. One of the replacement systems is “one-on-ones”, a […]
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Default Value
In .NET we’ve got this cool little language construct called default, that’ll give you the default value for any given type. That is, null, for any reference type, or zero/false/DateTime.Min/etc. for value types. Here it is in action (nothing amazing going on here): var x =default(DateTime); So what if you don’t know the type you […]
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More bragging about SEP…
Okay, I don’t think it’s a secret that I REALLY enjoy working at SEP. However, I’m going to continue to brag about this company. Recently, SEP was awarded the #1 BEST place to work in Indiana! That is some exciting stuff. Today, when I went to Google and searched for “beast place to work in Indiana”, […]
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Waste in the Software Development Process
Using “Lean” our focus is rightly on being fast and removing delays. We work to reduce WIP as a means of addressing throughput, rework and bug injection. We also often implement some sort of inventory management collaboration with the client to make sure we are working on the right stuff first. There is also the waste […]
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SEP Named #1 2010 ‘Best Places to Work in Indiana’
Yesterday, SEP received top honors as the best place to work in Indiana in the small to medium-sized company category. The rest of the state now knows what I’ve always believed in my heart: SEP is a great place to work! It’s been a goal of the company for as long as I can remember. […]
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SEP Ranked #1 Best Place to Work in Indiana
Press Release May 6, 2010 (INDIANAPOLIS) — Companies with strong workplace practices – rooted in respect, teamwork and good communication – were recognized on May 6, 2010 at the Indiana Roof Ballroom as the Indiana Chamber unveiled rankings for the 70 companies from throughout the state that made the 2010 Best Places to Work in […]
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