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How Work Flexibility Fits Into My Internship

Last summer, I worked two months at Arcurve as a standard full-time intern.

From Restaurateur to BI Developer… An alternative path

It’s not easy to make a career transition, regardless of your age or experience. In my case, it has been a long-winding path to wind up here, but I am happy.

Culture

Three Tips to Make the Most of your Internship at Arcurve

Over the past year, I’ve been learning lots as an Arcurve intern. With the next cohort of interns getting ready to start in May, I wanted to welcome them aboard

Culture

Why I shutdown my independent programming company to work with Arcurve

Programming is difficult. It's a unique career that has you staring at your computer, alone, for somewhere between eight to infinity hours a day.

Careers

Staying Motivated as a Software Developer

Having worked at Arcurve as a software developer intern for almost a year, I can definitively say that I love my line of work.

Careers

Arcurve and Ivey MBA students team up

When we were approached by a group of MBA students from the Ivey Business School at Western University we jumped on board to help with their Field Project.

Technology

Hackathons vs. Projects

Did you know? According to Wikipedia, the world’s first hackathon was held in Calgary on June 4th, 1999.

Technology

The Impact of Machine Learning on IT and Data

Now, as the cost of using the cloud decreases, we see many organizations focusing on moving their OT data into the cloud.

Community

Students, robots and provincial competitions

You may think that I’m describing something like a hockey or volleyball team. In fact, I’m describing my experience as a member of NEO Robotics ....

Technology

How can OTs create efficiencies (and what are they?!)

Operational technologies (OTs) are the technology systems that help your physical assets – your physical processes, devices or infrastructure – run.

Technology

Transitioning from writing code that works to writing quality code

Having been at Arcurve now for six months, I am admittedly still trying to figure out what exactly quality code is....

Culture

Not just a company…A Community

Arcurve is not just a company, it’s a family-oriented, inclusive community where you feel supported and have fun while delivering world-class software products.

Culture

Three Lessons I Learned from the Arcurve CSR Project

Like many things, the CSR project is more than meets the eye. Sure, it’s not what you typically encounter when it comes to software development...

Careers

From Arcurve to Microsoft and back again

What unites Arcurve and Microsoft is they both have a strong sense of culture and identity...

Community

Un-fore-gettable, in every way

Last month, Arcurve was proud to sponsor Katy Rutherford to play in the ATB Financial Classic at the Country Hills Golf course here in Calgary.

Technology

UX tips to prevent a project meltdown

An exceptionally designed user experience (UX) is more than just aesthetics and can drive a lot more than just oohs and aahs.

The importance of networking (at every stage of your career)

Many people shudder at the thought of attending in-person professional networking events (pre-pandemic, of course!). The awkward conversations, the inability to

Community

Arcurve at the Alberta Collegiate Programming Competition!

Back in my freshman year at the University of Calgary, I was looking for opportunities to improve my programming skills.

Culture

Facing Imposter Syndrome

“I don’t belong here” “I feel like a phony” These are common phrases that you may tell yourself in a room full of professionals.

Culture

A First High School Internship: For me and for Arcurve

In a few weeks, I’ll be going back to school as a regular Grade 12 student… with two months of work experience, learning, and connections made

Technology

Project Management – An Intern Perspective

Technology is constantly changing and evolving, every second of every day. With all this change, it can be difficult to keep up.

Anniversary Stories

15 Years of Memories

Since Arcurve started 15 years ago, the founders have made many memories: some better than others. So, I thought it would be a good idea to interview them

Community

Meet Stephanie!

Meet Stephanie Duke! Stephanie has been a Business Analyst at Arcurve for nearly two years.

Culture

What to expect when joining Arcurve as a recent grad

Being a new engineering graduate from the University of Calgary equipped with my shiny new iron ring, I faced the daunting prospect of finding a job to kick off

Culture

What do journalists, art galleries and tech companies have in common?

If you’d have told aspiring world travelling war scribe me 10 years ago that I'd be living in Calgary, working in tech, I'd have told you you were batsh*t crazy

Culture

The Arcurve Interns Burnt Orange 'Bucha

This year's intern-led Community Social Responsibility (CSR) project has had countless ups and downs, but with the hard work and dedication of the 10 interns,

Technology

Is the Cloud right for your business?

Last month’s Software Development 101: An Introduction to Cloud Native focused on solutions for businesses at the startup stage.

Culture

Arcurve takes a winning spot in the Entrepreneur of the Year program

15 years ago, Arcurve began because our founders, Mike, Jay, Michael and Stuart felt there was a better way to deliver software services.

Technology

Taking AI to the Enterprise Level - What are the Hurdles?

So, you’ve begun your Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) journey and executed a project that demonstrates a valid return on investment (ROI)

Culture

In the Business of People

It was a particularly cold Calgary evening in February 2019 when a pipe burst one floor above my dad’s downtown office. Within minutes, water came flooding in.

Anniversary Stories

From Arcurve Kid to Arcurve Intern: a 15 year journey

This September will mark the 15th anniversary for Arcurve. I can only think of a few people who’ve been there right from the very beginning. I count myself as o

Culture

Escaping Tutorial Misery

At the rate technology advances and changes, something that has become a popular method of learning is online tutorials. While these can quickly get someone up

Community

U of C's Tech Start x Arcurve

As an incoming intern, I was lucky enough to be part of Arcurve’s community even before my first day of work.

Technology

Life, the universe and Spreadsheets…

One of my favourite Steve Jobs quotes illustrates why he felt computers were a ‘bicycle for the mind’.

Anniversary Stories

What’s in a name?

Have you heard the one about how our four founders put their heads together to come up with a name that’s lasted and still describes these values 15 years later

Culture

Arcurve is always growing

The latest Arcurvian to join the team is sales veteran, go-getter, and long-time Calgarian, Richard Roskey as our Director, Sales.

Technology

4 ways to cross the believability gap

 Are you struggling to get your analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) efforts off the ground? You’re not alone.

Culture

Arcurve is acquiring cutting edge AI and Data Analytics firm Menome

“The addition of Menome and its talented staff helps Arcurve significantly expand the level of data and analytics services that we can offer our clients”

Culture

BINGO! A new #shoplocal initiative led by Arcurve's student interns

Arcurve's student team are leading a fun social responsibility project!

Community

Volunteering; A Socially Responsible Way to Engage!

While we all actively work to social distance during the COVID 19 Pandemic, others actively engage, in a socially responsible manner, to help save lives.

Community

A Visit to Halifax's Software-Based Innovation Hub

Imagine starting your education with a problem set, with a series of questions, with inquiries and building prototypes to test theories, all while networking...

Careers

An Award Winning Intern

I attribute this award the amount of autonomy I was given; there’s been no pigeonholing into the stereotypical inconsequential “intern tasks."

Careers

"Always have a chip on your shoulder."

Don’t make it personal and bitter. But have it there. :)

Community

A Tech-tastic December!

We could not be more excited about this year's YYC Tech Gives initiative! A record-breaking year means Calgary's tech community is definitely on the nice list.

Culture

Well that was fun! Pub Night 2019

An annual tradition with an unprecedented twist!

Culture

Ready to Giv'r at SPAM Cup!

To see who has what it takes to compete, we held an Iron Chef (FUBAR-style of course!) competition at the office today. It was as exactly as ridiculous...

Careers

A peek of geek chic

Here are a few of the lessons from Chic Geek's Geeky Summit that really stood out...

Technology

Using T-SQL to Query JSON data

Consider a use case where you have a data structure that you are persisting to the database as JSON by just serializing your models to a string and storing...

Community

A focus on community

We won the Community Connection Award at Canada's Workforce Choice Awards!

Community

A different kind of playground

Games such as Minecraft and tic-tac-toe allowed us to explain the concepts in a way that was familiar to and interactive with the students...

Technology

LINQPad as a portable tool for connecting to Windows Internal Database

No installation required, nothing to uninstall, and I had the work done in less time than it would have taken to download and install SSMS...

Careers

Bridging newcomers to Canada, one internship at a time

What stood out for me in this learning process is the freedom to learn, explore, grow, take risks and stay up to date with the latest technologies...

Culture

13th Annual Friends & Family BBQ

A heap of good old fashioned country fun AND over $5,711 raised for the Calgary Food Bank!

Community

Arcurve is growing

“We are very excited to welcome The Censeo Group to the Arcurve family."

Community

Arcurve joins the Ride to Conquer Cancer

An estimated 1 in 2 Canadians will develop cancer in their lifetime and cancer accounts for roughly 30% of deaths annually in Canada.

Culture

What makes Arcurve, Arcurve?

We live our values on the daily to create the type of culture our team can thrive in. Teamwork. Trust. Honest Interactions. Continuous Growth. Passion for...

Technology

Machine Learning and Big Data

When Arcurve embarks on a Machine Learning project, we work with the client to understand the data available and the prediction to be made...

Careers

An Intern's Impressions of ReactXP

I was a little nervous beginning a project that relied entirely on ReactXP. However, I found it to be not that bad, after I got the basics down...

Technology

Why is Kubernetes so popular anways?

Kubernetes is a hot technology in the DevOps world. It’s an open source container orchestration platform that helps manage distributed, containerized apps...

Community

#NationalPuppyDay

March 23 is National Puppy Day! Sure, it may seem unrelated to full-service software development, but we’ve always had a soft spot for...

Culture

PI, Pie... and InsPIEred Customer Service!

A Complete Guide (to how we celebrate PIE day and the profile of one of our Directors that helps make it all happen!)

Culture

Christmas Tree Planting

Every Arcurvian at Timber Ridge liked tree planting a lot. Finding places to plant trees, was difficult any season...

Community

Pub Night 2018: Thank You For Another Amazing Year

Dear Arcurve Friends, Colleagues, Clients, Palomino Hosts and Food Bank Representatives - It’s been over a week since we celebrated our 12th annual Pub Night...

Community

My Movember

Now that Movember is over - here is a reflection from Josh about the Mustache-iest month of the year.

Technology

Creating a ReactXP Extension

Creating a ReactXP Extension that has a different implementation for Android, iOS, and Web.

Community

Shop Local: Why it makes all the sense in the world.

At Arcurve, we believe Calgary has some of the best tech talent in all of North America, that's why shopping local makes all the sense in the world.

Technology

RxJS and Incomplete Streams

I had a long chain of observables combined using switchMap, with a finally() method at the end. My finally() method was not being executed when I expected...

Culture

The Catalyst that is EvolveU

Technology is everywhere. EvolveU has positioned itself as a catalyst in adapting to the changing landscape in Calgary's technology recruitment pipeline.

Technology

The Dangers of Magic Values

A regression recently appeared in a legacy codebase we’re maintaining: empty values were being saved to the database, which was causing downstream problems.

Careers

Confessions of an Arcurve Intern

Hear about the day-in-a-life of an Arcurvian Intern from Cody who studies at the University of Lethbridge; this is his Confessions of an Arcurve Intern.

Community

Arcurve Arrives in the City of Glass

Office space secured. Staff hired. Watch out Vancouver, here we come.

How Work Flexibility Fits Into My Internship

From Restaurateur to BI Developer… An alternative path

Three Tips to Make the Most of your Internship at Arcurve

Why I shutdown my independent programming company to work with Arcurve

Staying Motivated as a Software Developer

Arcurve and Ivey MBA students team up

Hackathons vs. Projects

The Impact of Machine Learning on IT and Data

Students, robots and provincial competitions

How can OTs create efficiencies (and what are they?!)

Transitioning from writing code that works to writing quality code

Not just a company…A Community

Three Lessons I Learned from the Arcurve CSR Project

From Arcurve to Microsoft and back again

Un-fore-gettable, in every way

UX tips to prevent a project meltdown

The importance of networking (at every stage of your career)

Arcurve at the Alberta Collegiate Programming Competition!

Facing Imposter Syndrome

A First High School Internship: For me and for Arcurve

Project Management – An Intern Perspective

15 Years of Memories

Meet Stephanie!

What to expect when joining Arcurve as a recent grad

What do journalists, art galleries and tech companies have in common?

The Arcurve Interns Burnt Orange 'Bucha

Is the Cloud right for your business?

Arcurve takes a winning spot in the Entrepreneur of the Year program

Taking AI to the Enterprise Level - What are the Hurdles?

In the Business of People

From Arcurve Kid to Arcurve Intern: a 15 year journey

Escaping Tutorial Misery

U of C's Tech Start x Arcurve

Life, the universe and Spreadsheets…

What’s in a name?

Arcurve is always growing

4 ways to cross the believability gap

Arcurve is acquiring cutting edge AI and Data Analytics firm Menome

BINGO! A new #shoplocal initiative led by Arcurve's student interns

Volunteering; A Socially Responsible Way to Engage!

A Visit to Halifax's Software-Based Innovation Hub

An Award Winning Intern

"Always have a chip on your shoulder."

A Tech-tastic December!

Well that was fun! Pub Night 2019

Ready to Giv'r at SPAM Cup!

A peek of geek chic

Using T-SQL to Query JSON data

A focus on community

A different kind of playground

LINQPad as a portable tool for connecting to Windows Internal Database

Bridging newcomers to Canada, one internship at a time

13th Annual Friends & Family BBQ

Arcurve is growing

Arcurve joins the Ride to Conquer Cancer

What makes Arcurve, Arcurve?

Machine Learning and Big Data

An Intern's Impressions of ReactXP

Why is Kubernetes so popular anways?

#NationalPuppyDay

PI, Pie... and InsPIEred Customer Service!

Christmas Tree Planting

Pub Night 2018: Thank You For Another Amazing Year

My Movember

Creating a ReactXP Extension

Shop Local: Why it makes all the sense in the world.

RxJS and Incomplete Streams

The Catalyst that is EvolveU

The Dangers of Magic Values

Confessions of an Arcurve Intern

Arcurve Arrives in the City of Glass

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