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November 22, 2010
Subcontractors Again Give TCG a Thumbs Up
TCG has announced the latest results of its annual survey of companies who serve as subcontractors on TCG’s Federal government contracts. Across the board, TCG’s subcontracting partners give TCG high marks for its business relationships with its partners. Click here…
October 13, 2015
BFELoB 2015 Fall Forum open for registration
We use a lot of the MAX.gov tools in our work for clients across government and believe many more companies and agencies would do the same if they knew more about the tools! Fortunately, the Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business…
March 1, 2012
Online Grants Manual Part of Maryland’s Grants Library
The Maryland Governor’s Grants Office has put its grants managers’ manual on its website along with other resources that applicants and administrators might need. One link on the site, for instance. lets businesses download a document that contains finance programs for…
July 14, 2008
Grants Policy Committee goes webified!
The Grants Policy Committee just announced their new web site, with its very own three-letter government domain name (we geeks are awed by such wonders!). Check it out at www.gpc.gov. It’s got webcast archives, contact information, a breakdown of which groups…
August 21, 2006
GSA to study agencies’ service to citizens
While its focus will be on call centers, e‑mail responses, and web sites, it’s still good to see the GSA studying how well agencies are servicing citizen’s information needs. The first iteration of FirstGov was an amalgamation of sites but…
March 24, 2021
TCG Proudly Supports Local Organizations in Fighting Food Insecurity
March is B Corp Month!
As part of our responsibility as a B Corp,* each year TCG chooses a social cause to support through donations and volunteer work. (Due to the pandemic, we focused on virtual volunteer opportunities over the last year, but…
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…
July 18, 2008
Zimbra: Getting Away Messages to Work With Domain Alises
While most of our mail is simply sent to “person@tcg.com”, our Zimbra server has a larger qualified domain name (let’s call it “mail.tcg.com”). To get this to work, we completely configured up the domain “mail.tcg.com” and all the users within our…
July 21, 2008
Grants.gov summer newsletter is on the street
Another notice that was languishing in my overflowing inbox was a heads up that the Grants.gov summer newsletter is available. It’s not exactly pulp fiction for the beach but a vital read for people like us. The newsletter updates us that:
The transition…
December 8, 2011
10+ Years of Telecommuter Wisdom
I have more than 10 years experience as a telecommuter. Every year I learned something for myself that would have been nice in a set of guidelines to have before I started to work from home.
Year 1: Cancel your cable television. You will get…