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Participant Perspective: Tips from a Career Changer

by The Exelaration Team | Jan 26, 2023 | Internships

By Mital Gajjar, Arlington Talent Pilot Program Participant   I came from two different industries before jumping into software development: healthcare and education. Making this big career change was challenging but...

In Defense of Failing Fast

by Will Drougas | Jan 23, 2023 | Digital Service Delivery

What’s the best idea you’ve ever had? Something you truly believe would be a great product or service, if only you had the time and resources to build it out just...

Surviving Your Software Development Career

by Nancy Moreno | Jan 03, 2023 | Exelaration

The past few years have been challenging, with adjustments to every area of our lives during the pandemic and its aftermath. One of the unexpected benefits is an increased focus on...

So, You Want to Create Your Own App?

by The Exelaration Team | Dec 13, 2022 | Digital Service Delivery

Organizations often have a well-intentioned vision to take their services, products, or processes digital by creating an app. The principles are sound. They want to provide greater convenience for their intended...

Behavioral Best Practices for Launching a Tech Career

by Will Drougas | Sep 26, 2022 | Exelaration

The desire to switch careers can result in the combination of so many human emotions: frustration, excitement, anxiety, and, most importantly, motivation. Most of us at one point or another ponder...

Build Vs. Buy – The Definitive Guide

by Lance Parlier | Sep 21, 2022 | Exelaration

So, it’s time for your business to invest in a shiny new piece of software. One of the first decisions you will need to make is whether you are going to...

What Every Employer Keeps Doing Wrong

by Steve Cooper | Jun 29, 2022 | Exelaration

Businesses spend lots of money upgrading technology, streamlining their operations, and making the workplace great. Over decades, these investments have radically improved these areas to the point they’re unrecognizable from the...

Exelaration’s Big Changes, Explained by CEO Steve Cooper

by Steve Cooper | Jun 14, 2022 | Exelaration

What if your favorite restaurant changed their menu? We’re not a restaurant, but we recently struck fear into our stakeholders’ hearts because of some changes we’re making to our award-winning Exelaration...

Streamlining Developer On-boarding with Containerization

by Lance Parlier | May 03, 2022 | Exelaration

Anyone who has worked in technology for even a short period of time has heard these words: “but it worked on my machine.” One of the more painful experiences for an...

Cybersecurity Myths You Should Stop Believing

by Alan Baines | Nov 08, 2021 | Exelaration

You hear about it in the news all the time: “This company just got hacked and had a major security breach!” Some think if companies made their security practices more difficult,...

Top Work from Home Apps for Staying Productive

by Nancy Moreno | Oct 20, 2021 | Exelaration

Remember when working from home was the sparkly unicorn of workplace perks, reserved for the favored few? The pandemic levelled the playing field as most of us headed home, laptop in...

Student Voices: Git Into it – An Overview of Git

by Emily Haggard | Sep 15, 2021 | Internships

Version control is at the core of every software project; to efficiently develop in a team, you must be able to work asynchronously and avoid stepping on each other’s toes. Additionally,...