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January 9, 2013
Telework Exchange Announces Spring 2013 Town Hall Meeting
The Telework Exchange--a public-private partnership focused on eliminating telework gridlock–has
announced that its Spring 2013 Town Hall Meeting will be held Tueday, April 30, 2013 at the D.C. Convention Center.
The spring program will feature a new workshop-style format. Attendees will…
July 10, 2012
First Certified Grants Management Professionals
Grants management is getting more complicated with every new funding bill that passes Congress or in state legislatures, and with every new grants program created in federal, state, and local governments and in private foundations. Perhaps once grants could be…
February 5, 2008
Write Permission Problems with Apache? Check for SELinux…
While trying to install MediaWiki on my CentOS 4.5 box, PHP could not write the Wiki configuration file. So, I conducted the standard checklist:
Figure out what user and group Apache was using (apache/apache),
Ensure that the path to the configuration…
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…
September 26, 2007
GSA changes tack on FederalSpending.gov solicitation. Again
FCW reports that GSA issued another modification to its solicitation for the data and system to power FederalSpending.gov by January 1st; now they just want data and no software. This is all rather inscrutable to me. From the article:
“GSA…
March 30, 2012
Project: Facebook Data Liberation — Part 3 — Authentication
There are a few ways to work with the Facebook API in a HTML5 application. You can use their JavaScript SDK, you can do the integration on the server side, or you can make direct calls with your own JavaScript functions. I'm going to use that last technique.
September 5, 2006
E‑Gov at Five Years, Part Five
In the final part of his review of US federal e‑gov activities Daniel Pulliam looks at the lines of business initiatives, which many regard as the next phase of e‑government. The Grants Management Line of Business and Grants.gov are mentioned…
July 8, 2009
Importing Microsoft Project into GForge 4.6 (Open Source Version)
With the latest open source version of GForge (4.6), thanks to a new CSV import system and a little bit of work (a custom export map and Perl script) you can now import a Microsoft Project file into GForge!
Step 1: Prepare and…
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…
September 25, 2007
FFATA.org launched
You wait ages for an easy way to search federal awards data and then two come along at once! Well, almost. The folks who currently support the Federal Procurement Data System — Next Generation (known as FPDS-NG) have launched a competitor…