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February 28, 2012
Virtual Development Paradigm
I use virtual machines (VM) for nearly all my development. When I am doing any serious work, the first step is to fire up VirtualBox on my desktop and launch the VM that I am using for that project. If you don’t…
February 14, 2012
TCG Customer Named Federal 100 Award Winner
Christopher Friedline, program manager for the Department of the Treasury/Bureau of the Public Debt Budget Formulation and Exectuion Manager (BFEM) program, has been named a 2012 Fed 100 awards winner. The awards, which are sponsored by Federal Computer Week, recognize 100…
February 7, 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 “Turn the Key…
February 1, 2012
NGMA 2012 Annual Conference Registration Now Open
The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) has announced that registration is now open for NGMA’s 33rd Annual Training Conference. The conference will be held April 22–25, 2012 at the Crowne Plaza Old Town in Alexandria, VA. This event is a…
January 31, 2012
TCG Customer Recognized as Excellence.Gov Award Finalist
The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) has announced that the Department of the Treasury’s Budget Formulation and Execution Manager (BFEM) program is a finalist for the 2012 Excellence.Gov Awards in the Excellence in Enterprise Efficiencies category. TCG…
January 30, 2012
My Southwest Flight Hit a Light Pole, but They Really Impressed Me…
My wife and I happened to be on today’s flight #792 from Los Angeles to Denver that hit a light pole. (Since we were taxiing, most of us had our phones turned on, and were able to get some pictures…)
We had…
January 25, 2012
TCG Executive Team Wins 2012 SmartCXO Award
TCG’s executive management team has been named one of the best senior leadership teams in Washington, DC, by the 2012 SmartCXO Awards. The awards are sponsored by SmartCEO magazine. Hats off to our team—they truly deserve this recognition! To read…
January 6, 2012
Telework Exchange Announces Spring 2012 Town Hall Meeting
The Telework Exchange–a public-private partnership focused on eliminating telework gridlock–has announced that its Spring 2012 Town Hall Meeting will be held Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at the D.C. Convention Center.
The spring program will focus on the fundamentals that empower…
December 30, 2011
Firefox 4 Saved My Android
As a side project I have been working on an HTML5 app designed to permit real-time playing of board and card games on multiple devices (PC, iPhone, Android, etc.). This led to some interesting research about touch events and getting click events to…
Faster Random Numbers in JavaScript
There is a non-deterministic cellular automaton simulation that I have coded in a few in different languages on everything from a Commodore Vic-20 to an Android phone. It’s basically a grid populated by various colors that change states based on some random probabilities. Ok, that…