The pursuit of value through excellence
What is excellence? The Oxford Dictionary defines it as “the quality of being outstanding or extremely good”. Ok, but how do we demonstrate this in a field as complex as software …
Empowering People Through Shared Stories: E-g’s Book Clubs
A question that we like to ask candidates during an interview is: “Do you like to learn?”. The love of learning is a common thread that runs through the E-g team. We believe that people …
Hourly billing and efficiency in software development – are the two at odds?
Much has been written about the potential conflict of interest where the professional services industry is concerned. Many have highlighted the temptation that exists when work is billed by the hour. …
ChatGPT Prompt proficiency: Be Persistent!
The US Military Recruit Training Programs are known for rapidly transforming individuals into servicemembers who are physically and mentally fit for their duties. They are exceedingly persistent and …
Swift Asynchronous Functions
In September 2021 Swift 5.5 was released, and it introduced a new native concurrency model for writing asynchronous and parallel code. This model provides a new syntax for running …
Recognition and Reality
For a 12th year in a row now, E-gineering has been recognized as a best place to work in Indiana. So many people here at E-g are responsible for that – go look at our Whole Team page for the face of …
Joy and Thankfulness
Before we get started… Surely we can agree that joy doesn’t mean being ecstatic each and every minute. Or as Wyatt Earp comically suggested in the 1993 movie Tombstone, it doesn’t mean we …
One Year of Pandemic
Wow. How has it already been one year? A year ago this week, we all went home from work for two weeks. We watched the news and watched the numbers and wrung our hands over toilet paper shortages… and …
Hacktoberfest! – Celebrating Open Source Software
A quick introduction – Packages, Libraries, and Repos Before we begin, if you’re familiar with these terms, you can skip to the next section. As software developers, we often bring other …
Mental Health Awareness
October is National Depression and Mental Health Screening Month. As a company, mental health is very close to our heart. It’s important to make sure each employee and their mental health is …
Success Is Measured By Faithfulness
Twenty years is a long time when you’re looking ahead at them. But, wow, they sure seem like a blink of the eye when you’re looking back. We started E-g when most of the founding partners were still …
Zoom (Partial) Family Photo
The stories we’ll tell! That’s what we’ve been saying around here as we look to the days ahead. One responsibility of living through these times is to make memories. Most of the E-g …
Converting Azure Functions to AWS Lambdas
TL;DR – The source code is here and converting Azure Functions to AWS Lambdas is really fun and easy! Some background For the unfamiliar, serverless computing is a way to host code that runs on …
Social-Distance Friendly Family Virtual Scavenger Hunt Day Out
“What is a social-distance friendly family virtual scavenger hunt day out?” you ask. (And, wow, isn’t that a mouthful of words??) Well, we adapted our normal first company hike of …
2020 Easter Sunday Fun
It might be all kinds of crazy-different out there these days. And sure, we have to figure out how to live daily life in a social-distancing way. But some things remain stable even in the swirl of …
Becoming A Trail-Blazor
The software development landscape is often an image of a rushing river more than a stalwart mountain. With the introduction of WebAssembly, many languages are working to implement their own solutions …