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May 4, 2010
Knowledge management in the cloud exists in government right now
Quoting speakers at the recent Knowledge Management Conference, an article at FCW.com says that…
“The combination of knowledge management and a cloud computing environment is the likely catalyst for open government”
and…
“the questions are: Who owns information in the cloud and…
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…
September 14, 2005
Experiments in Rapid System Restoration using Tardiff
One great feature of Linux and other Unix variants is that you can quickly make a “bare metal” restoration or duplicate of a system provided you have a full backup of the original. (With Windows, the registry requires special tools in order…
May 19, 2011
Pass-the-hat funding gets a slap from OMB Watch
NextGov highlights an OMB Watch report that discusses the challenges facing e‑gov initiatives that are funded using a “pass-the-hat” approach. Grants.gov is one of these initiatives, and faces multiple challenges in this area, as a recent GAO report about Grants.gov examined.…
January 13, 2006
MySQL now on GSA Schedule
[Via Slashdot] Government buyers can now get MySQL on a GSA Schedule. Is this the first time this has happened, though? A quick look at the GSA Advantage site yields at least one or two results for MySQL database license vendors. Besides…
September 27, 2011
Dissecting a JavaScript CSS Browser Selector
If you are a web developer and have not seen Rafael Lima’s CSS Browser Selector yet, you should check it out. It is a 1K JavaScript file that lets you easily add CSS to your web page for specific browsers, operating systems,…
September 25, 2007
We’re aiming to save taxpayers $1 billion by 2011
We just announced our new company goal: To save taxpayers $1 billion by 2011! You can read all about it on our Web site. To create this goal and track our progress we’ve spent the better part of this year…
May 6, 2008
NIH procuring grants systems engineering help
One of the larger, if not the largest, grants management system in government is run by the NIH. It’s called the Electronic Research Administration (eRA…yes, with a small ‘e’) and you can read all about it here. NIH is currently recompeting…
November 13, 2008
NGMA Training on Wednesday!
Just a reminder that the NGMA is holding its next training luncheon on Wednesday. Here are the details:
OMB Circular A‑102: The “Common Rule” and 2CFR Part 215 — Uniform Administrative Requirements:
Speaker: Janice Joyce & Jean Feldman, National Science Foundation
Program…
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…