Wish AngularJS Worked Differently? Monkey Patch it.
By: Corbin March So, you’ve been waiting patiently for this whole AngularJS craze to blow over when you start to have doubts. What if Angular takes over the world? You have to admit it’s an impressive...
View ArticleCommunication Simplification
By: John Grimm To a Project Manager, communication is king. You can put together the best project plan ever seen, but if you aren’t able to communicate your plan to the team, you are sunk before you...
View Articlesdg Volunteers at Second Harvest Heartland
A group of sdg’ers and their families helped label and package food at Second Harvest Heartland twice over the last month. Second Harvest Heartland is the largest hunger relief organization in the...
View ArticleVacation Vs. Work
By: Ben Etten The topic of vacation versus work is nothing new. A variety of studies show overwhelming evidence that vacations are beneficial for your health, relieve stress, can be good for your...
View Articlesdg Platinum Sponsor for 2014 Liferay North American Symposium
The Liferay North American Symposium is the largest gathering of Liferay developers, users, and customers in the western hemisphere. Liferay, the world’s leading open source portal, was again named to...
View Articlesdg Speaks at Liferay North American Symposium: “Portals are Dead, Long Live...
The Liferay North American Symposium is the largest gathering of Liferay developers, users, and customers in the western hemisphere. Liferay, the world’s leading open source portal, was again named to...
View Articlesdg Customer wins “Website of the Year” and “Best Mobile Experience” Liferay...
The Liferay North American Symposium is the largest gathering of Liferay developers, users, and customers in the western hemisphere. Liferay, the world’s leading open source portal, was again named in...
View Articlesdg Speaks at Liferay North American Symposium: “Drupal vs. Liferay – Pound...
The Liferay North American Symposium is the largest gathering of Liferay developers, users, and customers in the western hemisphere. Liferay, the world’s leading open source portal, was again named in...
View ArticleDear Developer: The Database is Your Friend
By: Chad LaVigne Data Wins At sdg, our bread-and-butter is developing web applications to solve business problems. As people who create software, it’s very easy to become focused on designing awesome...
View ArticleGood Business Analysts Think Like Product Managers
By: Bryce Blilie As is the case with many titles in the professional IT world, business analyst and product manager share many commonalities. The role of product manager requires sharp business analyst...
View ArticleMaven Overlays: An Overlooked Approach to Sharing Front-End Code
By: Jeff Ortman Has this ever happened to you? Development on a number of web-based applications is initiated concurrently. At some point in the midst of development it is decided that these multiple...
View ArticleWebGL and Three.js: Look, a Shiny Object!
By: Greg Stier What is WebGL? WebGL is a Javascript API used to render 3D graphics to the screen in a browser. The WebGL API can be complicated and messy, but there are libraries that simplify this....
View ArticleBaskets of Hope for the Holidays
This holiday season, 231 families will receive Baskets of Hope from contributions made by sdg employees. For every $25 donation, The Food Group’s Baskets of Hope program provides a free holiday meal to...
View ArticleA New Approach to New Year’s Resolutions
By: Molly Mjolsness Happy December! We’re finally to that glorious month where we get to use up our PTO, reconnect with friends and family, and take a step back from our daily routines. Without fail,...
View ArticleA Brief Introduction to Linux
By: Brien Coffield If I haven’t lost your attention at the mere mention of Linux, congratulations! You’re most of the way toward being an elite hacker. OK maybe not, but with a little bit of knowledge...
View Article‘Tis the Season for Giving — Happy Holidays from sdg!
As tradition will have it, sdg volunteers participated in the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign and the Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots drive again this holiday season. For our fourth year in a row,...
View ArticleEmbracing Essentialism: 5 Ways to Accomplish More by Doing Less
By: Ryan McKesson It’s around this time every year that I like to take a moment to reflect on what I have accomplished, understand where I may have fallen short, and start getting excited about all I...
View ArticleWhat Cooking Taught Me About Programming
By: Paul Wiedel Some of my best programming lessons in college didn’t take place in a classroom or in front of a computer… they took place in restaurant kitchens preparing food. The similarities...
View ArticleExceeding Expectations in Daily Communications
By: Mark Reid As a project manager consultant, there are so many things that I enjoy about the role: meeting new people, learning new businesses, interacting with individuals throughout an...
View ArticleKnow When to Fold ‘em: Poker, Game Theory, and the Rise of the Machines
By: Dan Schwie Last month, a team of researchers from the University of Alberta unveiled a statistically unbeatable poker playing program named Cepheus. Cepheus has reportedly solved heads up limit...
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