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May 17, 2011
TCG is a 2011 Inner City 100 Winner
TCG has been named by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Fortune Magazine as one of the 100 fastest growing inner city companies in the United States. The Inner City 100 program recognizes successful inner city companies and their…
July 16, 2008
Adobe 9.0 is okay for Grants.gov
Grants.gov has finished its testing, per this announcement:
Adobe Reader 9.0 is compatible with Grants.gov July 10, 2008 Testing for Adobe Reader version 9.0 is complete. Adobe Reader 9.0 is now compatible with Grants.gov. Applicants are required to have a compatible…
May 5, 2008
Office 2007 converter for OSX
After receiving a lot of files with the dreaded “.docx” filename extension, I discovered that Microsoft has a converter available for OSX that transforms these Windows Office 2007 files into Mac Office 2004 format. It’s not perfect (it’s in beta right now) and…
July 28, 2012
Senator Coburn: “Fraud, Waste, and Stupidity” in Grants Management
$687 billion in unspent grant money is sitting in accounts all around the country -- Senate committee wants to find out why.
August 24, 2007
SF-424 to change for FFATA
Bob Beattie of the University of Michigan asked the Grants.gov S2S mailing list whether data elements on the 424 might change because of the requirements of the FFATA and Kim Deutsch of the NSF responded. I thought this would be of…
May 14, 2008
See you at the FDP meeting tomorrow! Although you may miss me…
I’m going to the FDP meeting tomorrow at the Fair Lakes Hyatt in Fairfax, VA. If you’re there, look for the bespectacled fellow furiously typing on a Macbook. Wait… That describes about a third of the audience. Okay… Look for the bespectacled…
March 4, 2012
Are you having problems with VirtualBox giving out of memory errors?
In a previous post I described how I use Virtual Machines while doing software development. A few weeks ago I started getting memory errors when I launched a VM without closing down any other VM I had running. Specifically, I would get a VERR_EM_NO_MEMORY error with a result code of 0x80004005. …
November 1, 2018
Creating A Happy Remote Workplace
by Daniel Turner
TCG was built on the idea that telecommuting is more productive and leads to happier employees than a typical office-set workforce. However, building a remote workforce that keeps employees happy is fraught with challenges. In August’s edition of the…
August 17, 2007
GSA now competing FFATA database work
Matt Jillings at Compusearch pinged me about this posting [PDF version] on FedBizOpps for “The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) Data”. This seems to replace the prior sole source procurement intended for Eagle Eye, who developed FedSpending.org. I wonder…
July 17, 2018
This Was Not Your Average Day at Work
Each June we hold our Annual All-hands Meeting. It’s the one time of year that all of us come together to learn about the status and future of the company, the latest news on our projects, internal developments, and to…