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January 23, 2009
Transparency is the watchword, and already a practice
President Obama is already speaking to a large choir with this particular hymn:
In one of a handful of memorandums released during his first full day as president, Obama said he planned to issue an open government directive, which will instruct agencies…
July 18, 2011
NIH BCIG Announces Fall 2011 Program
The NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group (BCIG) has announced its Fall 2011 Program. All sessions are free and open to the public. For more information visit the BCIG home page.
Fall 2011 Program
Sep 1: BCIG Brainstorming Power Breakfast (unstructured…
October 12, 2011
TCG Is #36 on 2011 WBJ 50 Fastest Growing Companies List
TCG has been ranked in position 36 on the Washington Business Journal list of the 50 Fastest Growing Companies in the Washington, DC region for 2011. This is TCG’s first time on the list, which is based on consecutive growth…
July 25, 2005
Forecastfox
I started using Forecastfox some time ago and absolutely love it. It’s a little Firefox extension that shows the current and forecast weather conditions wherever you wish in the browser. Until the latest version, the weather data came from Weather.com but…
May 1, 2025
ICYMI: Major Cloud Providers Unveil New AI Tools
In the first half of April 2025, the largest cloud service providers—Google, AWS, and Microsoft—announced significant updates that could shape how federal agencies plan and execute cloud and AI initiatives. Here’s what government IT leaders and program managers should know:…
April 13, 2020
No, You Don’t Need Kubernetes for DevSecOps
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
If you google “DevSecOps”, you will find many references to deployment pipelines, and one of the most popular is from AWS (depicted in the diagram on the below). The pipeline involves many quickly evolving technologies such…
March 24, 2008
FFATA Subaward Pilot Workgroup
Much happening on the FFATA subaward front! Here’s the best way to get the latest information and get involved, courtesy of the NGP:
At our last webcast, the NGP offered to support Andrea Brandon and her FFATA Sub-Award Pilot Workgroup. Andrea…
February 1, 2013
NGMA Announces Call for Nominations for Annual Awards Program
The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) has issued a call for nominations for its Annual
Awards Program. The purpose of NGMA’s Annual Awards Program is to:
Recognize achievement and express appreciation to professionals who demonstrate standards of excellence in grants management expertise;…
March 22, 2012
Lightweight ORM for PHP
My family hosts an event called the Chili Bowl once a year. All our friends bring over chili, we play football, then eat the chili.…and most importantly vote to see who brought the best chili and who brought the most original…
April 9, 2007
The Evil Status Report
Another good column from my friend Eric Spiegel, this time about the lowly weekly status report, and how it can be good or evil, depending on your point of view:
If you keep them short and sweet, weekly status reports can…