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July 20, 2012
Oracle Nightmare: Recovery With Missing Redo Files
Here’s a mistake you only do once: delete Oracle’s flash_recovery_area thinking that you can save space. You see, to quickly configure Oracle Backups (here is a great and brief how-to), it’s best to turn on “archivelog”, which instructs Oracle to create transaction…
July 13, 2012
GAO Report Dumps Grants Overlaps in Wrong Lap
The GAO Report released this week that looked at overlap in Department of Justice grants programs found an alarming number of overlapping programs and, not surprisingly, grants applications that repeated the same language for programs at different DOJ agencies.
“DOJ…
July 11, 2012
Tech Conference Videos Online
Like many older generation software developers, i.e. the set of programmers over 29, I have a lot of commitments that I can’t put on hold for days at a time. In my professional life, I have my standard work hours. Then I usually have one…
July 10, 2012
First Certified Grants Management Professionals
Grants management is getting more complicated with every new funding bill that passes Congress or in state legislatures, and with every new grants program created in federal, state, and local governments and in private foundations. Perhaps once grants could be…
June 28, 2012
TCG’s Tchad Moore Recognized by AFCEA Bethesda
TCG’s Tchad Moore has been recognized by the Bethesda Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA Bethesda) for his contributions in helping set a fundraising record for the group’s annual gala to benefit The Children’s Inn at the…
June 22, 2012
TCG is a SmartCEO 2012 GovStar Award Finalist
TCG has been named a finalist for the 2012 GovStar Awards. TCG is a finalist in the Small Business Star Performer category, which recognizes government contractors that have experienced significant growth. The awards are sponsored by SmartCEO magazine.
The GovStar Awards program…
June 21, 2012
Automatic recursive commits in CVS for large source trees
TCG has a number of long running projects. Some of them are still using the CVS revision control system because it is working well for our particular use case and the scope of the project doesn’t justify the cost in moving…
May 31, 2012
ORCID Proposes Unique Identifiers For Scientific Authors
Uniquely identifying people in an electronic database can be a very hard problem. I ran into this problem on my first project with TCG and it has come up a number of times since then. Given a large enough sample size, you can find…
May 23, 2012
Feds Launch Roadmap for a Digital Government
Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel today announced that the Federal government has launched a new digital government strategy that will provide a roadmap for using digital and mobile technology to improve government services and provide the American public with greater access…
May 14, 2012
Telework Exchange to Host Complimentary Webcast
The Telework Exchange, an Alexandria-based public-private partnership focused on demonstrating the tangible value of telework and serving the emerging educational and communication requirements of the Federal teleworker community has announced that it will host a complimentary Webcast titled “Ramp Up Your…