How Federal Agencies Can Get the Most from Their Atlassian Tools

Atlassian offers a powerful suite of tools to manage software development, DevSecOps, data collection, workforce management, ITSM/ESM, data analytics, and more.  Agencies often face challenges in configuring these tools to create the value they actually need for their organization.  There are…

2020 Annual Benefit Report

TCG continues to be proud of our B Corporation certification from B Lab. Certification was a tall order back in 2018, but we completed the requirements in 2019 and spent 2020 working on our processes and goals. We also got to know the…

Enter Date: “Next Tuesday” and Why RPA is Overhyped

by Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO Imagine going to a website, typing “Next Tuesday” into a date field, and it works. This magical capability already exists and is provided by a built-in PHP function called “strtotime”. Why doesn’t everyone use strtotime? Because, it’s hard…

2018 Annual Benefit Report

TCG exists not to make money from working for the Federal Government (although that is important), but to make the world a better place by working for one of the most powerful organizations in the world — one that really can…

On the Wisdom of Natural Language Programming

“Computer, how many new email messages do I have?” “About 300.” “How many interesting ones?” “When is an email message ‘interesting’?” “Let’s call an email interesting if it came from work or from someone I wrote to in the past week.” “You have…

Grantium conference and news

Grantium’s got a lot on its plate these days! They have just announced their first North American G3 User Conference, to be held at the Hyatt in Bethesda, Maryland, from June 11th to 13th. You can go here to review the…

Grants.gov Webcast 7/19/2007

I missed the first 30 minutes of the webcast due to a conflicting meeting. Here are the notes I took from 30 minutes in.  [UPDATE: The slide presentation, including the bits that I missed, is available here.]…