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October 5, 2011
NGMA Announces Monthly Training Luncheon and Webcast Series Schedule
The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) has announced its monthly training series schedule for 2011–2012. The series will have 8 sessions running from October through June and registration is now open. Here is the full schedule:
10/19/11 Grants 101: Featuring Stephen…
January 6, 2010
TCG Named as a SmartCEO Future 50 Fast Growth Company
TCG has been named by SmartCEO as one its Emerging Growth Future 50 Fast Growth Companies in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Washington SmartCEO magazine, in partnership with Clifton Gunderson LLP, announced the publication’s fifth annual Future 50 winners in…
June 29, 2010
Learn about TCG’s telework program
TCG was recognized with the 2010 Commuter Connections Telework Award earlier this month and at the award ceremony a little film was shown that describes the company’s telework program. You can check it out below!…
September 5, 2007
Mythbusting — be careful!
In the Washington Post today was a story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300933.html) about research by Norbert Schwartz into what people actually understand when myths are “busted.” (See “Metacognitive
Experiences And The Intricacies Of Setting People Straight:
Implications For Debiasing And Public Information Campaigns from…
July 5, 2006
Independence Is Good, But We Need to Know Why
Just in time for the 4th of July, Kevin Shockey of Tux Magazine encourages users to “declare their independence from proprietary software.” By comparing the “revolution” of open source software, and desktop Linux in particular, to the American Revolution, he…
May 3, 2006
CPAN (Net::FTP) for Perl Hangs on Cygwin
CPAN is an essential tool for Perl developers. With the “cpan” command, you can install whole Perl libraries effortlessly. However, on many default installations of cygwin, cpan simply hangs:
cpan> install LWP
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/MetadataDatabase…
August 1, 2006
ITIL and EA are not the same thing
GCN has an interview with Malcolm Fry, who’s considered the “father” of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Fry says that “ITIL is, to some degree, enterprise architecture”. But as Wikipedia accurately describes, ITIL is a set of service management best practices.…
August 24, 2007
SF-424 to change for FFATA
Bob Beattie of the University of Michigan asked the Grants.gov S2S mailing list whether data elements on the 424 might change because of the requirements of the FFATA and Kim Deutsch of the NSF responded. I thought this would be of…
August 21, 2008
Achieve Zen About Spam with Zimbra
This past Monday the amount of spam hitting our Zimbra mail server (5.0.5) spiked to twice the usual amount, causing our sever to fall 15 minutes behind in delivery. While we were doing pretty well with spam blocking through Pyzor…
November 29, 2012
TCG’s Angelo Ramilo Nominated for HDI Analyst of the Year Award
TCG’s Angelo Ramilo has been nominated for the HDI Capital Area Analyst of the Year Award. This annual award recognizes support analysts that exemplify the best of the best in the industry and who demonstrate knowledge and understanding of industry…