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March 6, 2024
Cloud Wars: Azure’s AI Push Challenges AWS’s Dominance
By Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
For years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the gold standard in cloud technologies, setting the pace for innovation and scalability. Our experiences at TCG have mirrored this trend, with AWS’s robust toolkit enabling us…
October 31, 2006
Solpath: an open source grants management package
Well I’m glad that someone has finally found the courage and means to start an open source grants management system project! These folks have just launched and are focused on foundations and non-profits. (Their chosen technology stack — PHP, MySQL,…
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…
January 14, 2007
Grantsfire — grant announcements for the rest of the world
The guys over at Solpath have released a test version of a new project called Granstsfire, which they describe as
an aggregator of syndicated grants information. It enables grantseekers and funders to share and search for information on grant announcements in real…
February 8, 2023
Sharpen the Agile Saw: 3 Simple Ways to Get Started
If projects are going as planned – steady, consistent sprint burndowns with quality, predictable deliverables – is it really necessary to sharpen the Agile saw? Yes. All blades dull eventually, and if you wait too long to care for essential…
July 22, 2005
Law enforcement IT standards
Another heads-up from Alice Marshall: DOJ is sponsoring an effort to develop law enforcement IT standards, called the LEITSC (Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council). With so much money at the levels of law enforcement closest to the feds, and…
August 18, 2005
Oregon govt uses Asterisk and other open source
Slashdot has a posting today. about the Oregon government’s use of open source technologies, including Asterisk (an open source PBX system).…
December 15, 2005
Copying Text from Encrypted PDF Files
PDF encryption is sort of silly. If you really wanted to grab the text, you can screen capture each page and then OCR it. So clearly the true intention of the encryption is to deter the 99% of the users…
January 19, 2007
MS Office Hidden Data Removal tool
Matt Eliot, a colleague here at TCG, suggested this tool in response to my complaints of people leaving comments and tracked changes in Word documents. Rich Renomeron also told me that it works in all Office programs, not just Word. Unfortunately…
September 20, 2007
Brain Storming Web 2.0 at NIH
Via the ever-wonderful BCIG mailing list I got notice of this very interesting Web 2.0 initiative at NIH, which is exploring the application of those technologies at that revered (around here, anyway) agency. There’s an open discussion session being held on…