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November 22, 2011
Telecommuting is great for productivity (but possibly bad for families?)
Telecommuting GOOD! And also telecommuting sometimes bad, maybe.
August 1, 2006
FPDS-NG testing
Washington Technology reports that GSA wants people to test FPDS-NG, one of the systems being mooted for replacement as a consequence of S.2590, the bill which proposes creation of a single federal funding (contracts and grants) data. (Go try it out, here.)…
May 24, 2007
FFATA/GPC Webcast confirmed for June 19
I’m at the FDP meeting today and Charisse Carney-Nunes, a Senior Staff Associate of the Grants Policy Committee, reported that there will indeed be a webcast about FFATA on June 19th, as I previously reported here, and has been publicized in this Federal…
December 29, 2011
PHP Code Review Checklist
I recently created a code review checklist for a PHP based project I was working on. If you want to be pedantic, it’s actually a list of questions that the reviewers should ask themselves as they look through the code.
This isn’t an exhaustive list…
April 28, 2008
GForge 4.5.11+ works well on PHP5
For our NITRC project, which is based on GForge 4.5.x, we wanted to integrate it with MediaWiki. However, while the latest version of MediaWiki (which has group workspaces) runs on PHP 5, and all of the GForge documentation refers to…
October 28, 2009
Recovery.gov data in augmented reality on your iPhone/Android phone
Layar is an augmented reality application for iPhone and Android phones, and the Sunlight Labs have now created a layer for the app through which you can browse data from Recovery.gov! “Augmented reality” is a new class of applications that essentially layer…
August 24, 2011
LAMHDI Annual Planning Meeting Focuses on Expansion
LAMHDI, the NIH initiative to Link Animal Models to Human Disease, held its annual planning meeting last week (August 15–17) in Bethesda. Attended by scientists and researchers from nine cooperating institutions and several federal agencies, the meeting focused on ways…
February 4, 2009
Cooley optimistic about grants streamlining
Tom Cooley, the chair of the Chief Financial Officer’s Council’s Grants Policy Committee was interviewed by Jason Miller on FederalNewsRadio yesterday. There’s a distinct note of optimism in Tom’s responses, and for good reason: the GPC now has an Implementation Plan…
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…
June 2, 2007
Use Firefox keyword searches to speed browsing
Via the wonderful Lifehacker, I discovered a feature of Firefox that I can’t believe I didn’t know about before. You can create keywords for search boxes on pretty much any Web page and then, when you invoke the keyword in the Firefox address bar,…