Our newest Detroit and Minneapolis Bright Paths Program cohorts recently concluded, and Perficient is proud to announce the graduation of 50 dedicated students from the program! The Bright Paths Program is designed to advance STEM education and career opportunities for underrepresented constituencies and communities, while closing the gap in the technology industry. The latest program […]
Posts Tagged ‘Minneapolis’
Perficient Colleagues Donate $21,047 and 5,624+ Meals to Feeding America During Hunger Action Month
The decision between food and other necessities shouldn’t be an impossible choice, yet food insecurity remains a nationwide issue. According to Feeding America, the largest hunger relief organization in the U.S., over 38 million people in the U.S., including more than 12 million children, struggle with hunger. September was Hunger Action Month (HAM), a campaign […]
Megan Jensen Values Building Genuine Connections at Work
Megan Jensen, senior solutions architect in our award-winning Sitecore practice is passionate about our collaborative culture at Perficient. She’s involved in our Women in Tech ERG, Minneapolis business unit culture events, and the Sitecore community as a Sitecore Strategy MVP. Megan is committed to giving her time, energy, and expertise to her communities, and she […]
Minneapolis Colleagues Raise Money for Back to School Supplies
This year families will spend an average of $864 on back to school supplies, according to the National Retail Foundation. With inflation rising, one-third of consumers are having to cut back spending in other areas in order to afford these supplies. Teachers are often forced to buy their own supplies even though they make 21.4% […]
Applying Bright Paths Knowledge: Five Program Graduates Discuss Their Custom Applications
Our Bright Paths Program is designed to advance STEM education and career opportunities for underrepresented constituencies and communities while closing the gap in technology. Perficient created Bright Paths in partnership between Perficient and Strayer University’s Hackbright Academy, a coding bootcamp and engineering program designed for women, as well as Devmountain, a design and coding bootcamp […]
Four Pieces of Advice to Incoming Bright Paths Students
Hear advice from five Bright Paths Program graduates, now Perficient colleagues. Our Bright Paths Program is designed to advance STEM education and career opportunities for underrepresented constituencies and communities while closing the gap in the technology industry. The program is currently accepting applications for the next two cohorts in Detroit and Minneapolis, with qualified program […]
Three Bright Paths Graduates Explain Why They Applied to the Program
Interested in a career in tech? Consider applying to Perficient’s Bright Paths Program. At Perficient, we’re committed to bringing more diverse insights and skillsets into the conversation to drive true innovation forward. Our Bright Paths Program is designed to advance STEM education and career opportunities for underrepresented constituencies and communities while closing the gap in […]
A tour of PowerQuery’s M language
In a previous post, I introduced PowerQuery and demonstrated how to perform various SQL-like operations. This article gives a tour of PowerQuery’s M language that underlies each query. let and in If you select a query and click on the “Advanced Editor” button in the Home tab, you’ll see something like this: This is the […]
Data exploration with PowerQuery
Microsoft’s PowerQuery is a neat tool that allows one to perform SQL-like operations on Excel tables. When investigating a database, I actually prefer using PowerQuery over raw SQL for a couple reasons: PowerQuery displays result sets that are much easier to look at than the a typical SQL plaintext result set. It’s easy to immediately […]
Perficient Expands Bright Paths Program Cohorts in Detroit and Minneapolis
Award-Winning Program Advances STEM Education and Career Opportunities to Underserved Communities and Constituencies Perficient is a company of more than 6,500 diverse and immensely capable colleagues, and we understand the importance of supporting the professional development of our global community. One of the ways we’re pursuing inclusion and equity in our company and communities is […]
Dependency injection in C# .NET
I’ve decided to write a tutorial on how to accomplish dependency injection in C# .NET, because the Microsoft documentation of dependency injection libraries is unfortunately way too sparse, and the Microsoft dependency injection tutorial is a little convoluted and complicated. Fortunately, C# .NET’s implementation of dependency injection is pretty straightforward. In my opinion, it’s way […]
How Jennifer Rostal Developed Her Passion into a Career
Perficient encourages all colleagues to find their passion within the organization to grow both personally and professionally. Once a colleague recognizes their passion, Perficient supports them along their desired path within the organization, whenever possible. Jennifer Rostal, senior project manager in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a prime example of someone who found their passion within Perficient […]