Category: Technology
November 18, 2010
TCG Spreads the Word at the Society for Neuroscience Conference
TCG is helping its clients get the word out about the projects we manage for them. TCG staff worked alongside scientists to present two of our scientific-collaboration projects to the 30,000 people attending the Society for Neuroscience conference in San…
October 13, 2010
TCG’s Robert Buccigrossi Nominated as CTO Innovator of the Year
Dr. Robert “Butch” Buccigrossi, TCG’s Chief Technology Officer, has been selected as a nominee by Washington Technology and the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) for their inaugural Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Innovator of the Year award. This new program recognizes the…
July 11, 2010
On the Wisdom of Natural Language Programming
“Computer, how many new email messages do I have?”
“About 300.”
“How many interesting ones?”
“When is an email message ‘interesting’?”
“Let’s call an email interesting if it came from work or from someone I wrote to in the past week.”
“You…
July 2, 2010
Why You Should Respond to Ads for Jobs That Are “Contingent on Contract Award”
…and why you should even volunteer to help with the proposal!
Have you ever read an ad for a job opening that sounded really interesting, only to see a caveat down near the bottom that said “this position is contingent on contract…
June 16, 2010
LAMHDI News
LAMHDI has a new release, and has included information from the Rat Genome Database in its searchable animal models, and has added functionality that allows users to search PrimateLit for information on non-human primate models. LAMHDI has a booth at the Zebrafish…
May 7, 2010
The Insanity of Stop Loss Market Orders and Impact on Cloud Computing
Computers around the world are ready to sell, sell, sell! I don’t mean on-line stores, but stop loss orders. At first a stop loss order sounds great, if not a necessity: if you hold stock at $100 and you want to protect yourself,…
April 28, 2010
TCG Supports Intergovernmental Solutions Award Finalist
TCG is pleased to announced that one of the government programs that we support, the Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business’s (BFELoB) MAX Federal Community, is a finalist for the American Council for Technology (ACT) 2010 Intergovernmental Solutions Awards. The…
April 1, 2010
We now have some sausages
There’s an old saying: “The butcher’s family is always the last one to get the sausages.” (There are variants dealing with shoes, haircuts, and low load mutual funds, but I think I may have made up at least one of those.) We…
March 31, 2010
High Performance Page Caching for Drupal 6.15
On one of our Drupal sites, we had an interesting problem. While the site happily handled up to 600 requests/second (on a 4 Gig, 4 CPU system) with the built-in Drupal page caching turned on, if an editor updated content on the…
March 19, 2010
2010 Excellence.Gov Awards Top 20 Announced
Just received the good word from ACT-IAC that the top 20 finalists for this year’s Excellence.Gov Awards can be announced. So here goes…!
Each year, the Excellence.Gov Awards recognize the federal government’s best IT projects. This year’s theme, “Game Changers:…