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Aviturians are determined to find new possibilities at every turn and recognize challenges as opportunities for growth. We believe learning is a continuous journey and that education has no end point. Join us on this journey; explore our insights to see what we’ve learned and what we’re continuing to discover.

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October 18, 2019

Introducing the Art of the Possible

Aviture  |  Culture  |  News

Starting today, Aviture will look a little different.

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June 11, 2018

How to keep remote employees engaged: Castaway Week 101

Aviture  |  Castaway Week  |  Culture

Great company culture isn’t built overnight. It’s the values, beliefs and spirit of your organization, and it takes effort and experimentation to grow. We’re proud of the environment we’ve cultivated at Aviture, but we are always striving for improvement and growth. Like many workplaces today, we are constantly trying to answer this question: How can we create culture that transcends the barrier of space between headquarters (Omaha, NE) and our remote employees (Austin, Chicago, DC Metro, Hartford, Las Vegas, Portland, and Phoenix)?

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August 22, 2017

Software 101: The Girls Inc. Experience

Aviture  |  community

Empower. Engage. Grow. Three things we aspire to do every day at Aviture. So, when I was introduced to Girls Inc. and their mission to inspire and engage young women to create a vision for a bright, healthy future, I knew Aviture could provide a perfect opportunity for them to explore their potential in technology.

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August 17, 2017

KCDC Conference 2017

Aviture  |  Events  |  Garage Speaker Series  |  News

How do already great developers become even better developers? They spend time learning with other talented developers, of course! And there’s no better place to soak up the latest industry tools, trends, and techniques than at the Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC).

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March 28, 2017

Style Guide Driven Development: Lessons learned

Aviture  |  Clean Coder  |  Culture

From the trenches, Our experiences with Style Guide Driven Development Style Guide Driven Development (SGDD) is a technique of developing your UI components in a living “Style Guide.” There is no one set definition but the basic idea is that you develop a separate page or pages outside your application that use the same CSS and HTML that your application uses. There is an excellent introduction to SGDD and its benefits at Smashing Magazine and we encourage you to check it out! This post will be about our experiences working with this technique, which suggest that on a green-field project, it is extremely difficult to know enough about your application to fully embrace SGDD out of the gate. We found that waiting for the UI patterns to emerge from your application and then creating a style guide was a better approach. Key to this recommendation is to develop and build all your UI components (style guide or not) with discipline, using known best practices.

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March 09, 2017

Top 10 Reasons to Work at Aviture

Aviture  |  Culture

40 hours.

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October 20, 2015

PortCAS Demo at UNMC’s Innovation Week

Aviture  |  Events  |  Garage  |  Health IT  |  Health Tech  |  PortCAS  |  The Garage  |  UNMC  |  UNeMed  |  iEXCEL Expo  |  laparoscopic  |  medical  |  partnership  |  portable  |  portable laparoscopic surgical simulation platform  |  simulation  |  surgeon  |  surgical  |  training

Aviture hosted a day of demo-prep on Monday for the PortCAS team as they prepared for UNMC’s 2015 Innovation Week. Garage By Aviture representatives were proud to be part of the team building and bringing PortCAS to market, a public-private collaboration success story. The tool and software were on display all day Tuesday, October 20 at the UNMC iEXCEL Expo.

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August 16, 2014

First Garage By Aviture Speaker Series Featuring Javier Lozano

.NET Insider  |  Application  |  Aviture  |  Aviture Speaker Series  |  Cloud infrastructure  |  Events  |  Garage By Aviture  |  Iowa Code Camp  |  Microsoft MVP  |  Scaling  |  Scaling in the Cloud  |  Speaker Series  |  Technology  |  javier lozano

On August 14th, Javier Lozano (@jglozano) gave a demo and led a discussion on “Scaling an Application on the Cloud.” Cloud hosting is an important topic in the entrepreneurial community given the drive to be scalable quickly without the initial cost and maintenance of expensive infrastructure, just one of the many technology decisions that teams will make along the life-cycle of their product and company.

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