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April 6, 2008
Xeyes: Inviting an Old Friend to Microsoft Windows
In the early 90s, we worked on these large black and white Sun monitors with X‑Windows. The problem was that with monochrome screens, we’d lose our cursor if we glanced away for a second. The solution was xeyes: a charming set of…
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…
March 19, 2012
AABPA Announces Spring Symposium
The American Association for Budget and Program Analysis (AABPA) has announced that registration is now open for its Spring Symposium which will be held on May 16, 2012.
The symposium will focus on providing budget and program professionals with tools for…
January 29, 2013
TCG’s NITRC Team Launches Cloud-based Science Research Platform on Amazon Web Services Marketplace
TCG announced today that the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse Computational Environment (NITRC-CE) is now available on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. NITRC-CE offers neuroscience researchers the convenience, speed, and savings of cloud-based computing against public and private neuroinformatics…
February 14, 2012
TCG Customer Named Federal 100 Award Winner
Christopher Friedline, program manager for the Department of the Treasury/Bureau of the Public Debt Budget Formulation and Exectuion Manager (BFEM) program, has been named a 2012 Fed 100 awards winner. The awards, which are sponsored by Federal Computer Week, recognize 100…
October 26, 2006
Google seeks access to Grants.gov data (and others) — what about RSS?
They’re already indexing every book on the planet, so why not government data? GovExec reports that Google is trying to open government data to Internet search engines (though I can’t imagine which one they have in mind!) to better enable users…
April 16, 2008
Shared services = standard services
Rant alert.
Larry Neff is the Deputy CFO at DOT, which runs an FMLOB shared services center. In this FCW article he makes it clear what the mission of these government shared service centers is:
…Neff said, agencies that require…
December 23, 2020
The SolarWinds Hack and Zero Trust Architecture
By Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
SolarWinds Orion is a popular software system that allows an administrator to monitor your network performance across the company through a central interface. Of course, SolarWinds provides periodic patch updates to Orion. Unfortunately this past March, hackers,…
May 9, 2008
Git – Fast Version Control System
Git is an open source version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency, but just as well suited for small personal repositories; it is especially popular in the open source community, serving as a development platform…
March 27, 2020
TCG’s Strategy for Offsetting and Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
As a Certified B Corp, TCG is committed to doing good in the community and the world. Making this commitment meant that we had to carefully examine the environmental impact of our company, particularly our carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions. As…