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August 31, 2006
Dreaming of an English-Based Object Oriented Language
MIT’s media lab has created “Metaphor”, a facinating tool that parses
standard English into a programmatic pseudo-code. Take a look at: http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/032305/Tool_turns_English_to_code_032305.html. Metaphor seems very cool, but to deal with the ambiguities of its English parser, it ends up with non-working pseudo-code. They…
August 21, 2008
Achieve Zen About Spam with Zimbra
This past Monday the amount of spam hitting our Zimbra mail server (5.0.5) spiked to twice the usual amount, causing our sever to fall 15 minutes behind in delivery. While we were doing pretty well with spam blocking through Pyzor…
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,…
May 9, 2007
Call for articles: USA Services Intergovernmental Solutions newsletter
Just received this call for articles via the National Grants Partnership mailing list. Looks like a good opportunity to raise awareness about those doing good work!
USA Services Intergovernmental Solutions publishes a newsletter that reports on trends and successes in information technology from…
March 21, 2012
How to Choose a Network Attached Storage (NAS) Device
So, you want to get a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device for your home office or small business. I think that is a great idea and have one myself. There are a lot of possible options though. You can get a dedicated network appliance that…
December 18, 2013
Finalists Announced for the 2013 SAVE Awards–Cast Your Vote Today!
OMB and the White House have announced the four finalists for this year’s Securing Americans Value and Efficiency (SAVE) awards. Award nominations, which promote ideas to improve government efficiency and save taxpayers’ money, are submitted by Federal employees. Anyone can…
October 20, 2009
NGP October 20th webcast and presentations now online
TCG supports the NGP’s webcasts, web site, and blog. Over on that blog I posted…
I just posted the Powerpoint files and webcast recording from today’s meeting to the NGP web site, here. Enjoy! Remember, these are provided for free.
The meeting…
July 9, 2007
Grants.gov reaches major milestone
This news was posted to the Grants.gov technical alerts Web page today. It’s really a wonderful achievement.
Grants.gov Processes 150,000th Federal Grant Application!
Grants.gov has received its 150,000th electronic grant application for fiscal year 2007, far exceeding a program milestone for the…
September 6, 2006
NIST publishes secure Web Services
NIST has published a paper (Special Publication 800–95)that addresses the problem of deploying Web Services in an SOA while maintaining security. Some of their recommendations:
Using XML encryption to ensure confidentiality.
Using XML signatures to ensure integrity.
Using Security Assertion Markup…
November 21, 2005
Justice gets lower IT budget
Also from GovExec.com, I see a report on the FY06 State-Justice-Commerce appropriations bill, which effectively cuts the Department of Justice’s IT budget. It already looks like IT will be a primary target as Congress tries to get the country’s budget back on some…