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October 15, 2008
Grants.gov Newsletter Fall 2008 now available
It’s here! The major headline is that Grants.gov has passed the 200,000 application mark for FY2008. Quite an achievement!…
September 5, 2008
NGP September 16th agenda/registration now available
Click here to see the agenda for the NGP’s September 16th meeting and webcast. Registration details are also on this page. Topics up for discussion include:
Transition and Reauthorization of PL 106–107
Transparency Act & Subaward Pilot Update
The Partnership for…
September 13, 2011
TCG Ranked #11 on Washington Business Journal List of Small Technology Companies
TCG has been recognized by Washington Business Journal as one of the Top 20 Small Technology Companies in the Washington, DC metropolitan area for the third year in a row. TCG is ranked 11th on the list, which is based on…
March 27, 2012
How To Build an Online Community
One key to the success of the NITRC web site is the strong community support we have from it’s target audience: neuroscience researchers. This didn’t happen overnight. There were a lot of steps that led up to where we are now, and…
November 29, 2018
TCGers Lend Their Helping [Coding] Hands to a Local Nonprofit
By day, TCGers develop complex applications and web tools that helps government address socio-economic issues and serve communities nationwide. By night (and sometimes on the weekends), TCGers basically do the same thing. For the past several months, a group of TCGers…
March 18, 2012
Too Clever?
In many weakly-typed languages, such as Javascript and PHP, you might find code that takes some ambiguous value and coerces it into a straightforward boolean like so:
$boolean = (boolean) $mixed;
But what about this radically shorter alternative?
$boolean = !!$mixed;…
February 28, 2006
Little data about response grants
GovExec has reported on GAO’s finding that Federal agencies don’t know enough about how well their emegency preparedness grants are performing. It includes a quote that really is applicable to every grant program on the face of the planet:
Federal, state…
September 20, 2006
Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will be irrelevant within 2 years
So high-definition video discs are hitting the stores now and yet again the electronics industry has shot itself (and early adopters) in the foot. Only, I think this is a lot worse than the Betamax-versus-VHS nonsense we all suffered through, or did…
August 29, 2006
Quick File Thunderbird extension
I have a lot of folders in my Thunderbird install, to track projects, people, companies, and so on. When I receive mail, most of it is filtered out into the appropriate folders but that leaves plenty of others that are not caught by…
December 27, 2011
Standardized Grants Forms: It’s Hard to Make It Easy
Council on Financial Assistance Reform is trying to make it easier for people and organizations to apply for financial assistance.