Author: TCG
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…
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…
December 12, 2007
TCG Alum is famous!
We’ve had getting-up-towards 200 employees over the years. Many left when the company had hard times, some left because they found other work or had kids, we even lost two to Amazon and one to Microsoft. (Amazingly, our voluntary turnover…
October 19, 2006
+HelloWorld()
And so begins another blog, and good thing too, because there weren’t enough already!
Despite all the navel-gazing that tends to occur, there have been some extraordinary uses for them out there. The ones that I read on a daily basis tend…
July 5, 2006
Independence Is Good, But We Need to Know Why
Just in time for the 4th of July, Kevin Shockey of Tux Magazine encourages users to “declare their independence from proprietary software.” By comparing the “revolution” of open source software, and desktop Linux in particular, to the American Revolution, he…
December 3, 2005
Microsoft and OpenDocument
I’ve been following the firestorm over Massachussetts’ possible adoption of the OASIS OpenDocument XML format as their standard format for office documents with interest. The ability of governments (and indeed, all computer users) to have guaranteed access to their data…
October 18, 2005
Challenging Torvald: Specs Are the Language of Negotiation
According to an article in SYS-CON, Linus Torvald posted a message on the ‘net saying that specs don’t help in software development, that they are a needless level of abstraction.
Torvald may be right when the developer is the client, creating a program…
October 5, 2005
Better proposals — feedback from evaluators
Captureplanning.com has a great insight into what proposal evaluators are looking for, what they do not like to have to read through, and what type of information delivers the strongest proposal. There is a wide range of evaluator types included in the…
October 4, 2005
Small Business Report leaves questions
An article at FCW.com points out that the Small Business Administration may have overstated the percentage of federal contracts going to small businesses in a recently released report.
An Aug. 25 SBA report states that the government awarded small businesses $69.2…
October 3, 2005
The Information Pioneers
Last week I attended the a reunion of the NSFnet crowd — lots of people whose names you probably don’t know (and a few whose names you’d recognize immediately, like Dave Farber), who 20 years ago developed the standards and the systems that…