Category: Technology
November 3, 2011
Is Wikipedia Really a First Page Search Result for Everything?
CC image courtesy of quartermane on Flickr
I like Wikipedia quite a lot. It is usually the first place I turn to find factual information about a topic. There are some people who don’t trust the site…notably my children’s elementary school teachers. Generally…
November 2, 2011
BFELoB PMO receives honorable mention for MAX suite
The BFELoB PMO has received an honorable mention from the 2011 Government Computer News Awards.
The honorable mention was recieved for the MAX application suite. MAX has numerous tools including data collection and collaboration. Read the article here. (Dislosure: TCG supports…
October 14, 2011
NITRC Now Acccepting Externally-Issued Identity Credentials in Advance of Government Directive
NITRC–the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse–recently promoted code to allow for externally-issued identity credentials one week before Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel instructed federal agency CIOs to begin accepting non-government, externally-issued identity credentials. The ability to link a Google…
October 5, 2011
Telework Exchange Announces Fall 2011 Town Hall Meeting
The Telework Exchange–a public-private partnership focused on eliminating telework gridlock–has announced that its Fall 2011 Town Hall Meeting, Take IT Home, will be held Tuesday, October 18, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade…
September 27, 2011
Dissecting a JavaScript CSS Browser Selector
If you are a web developer and have not seen Rafael Lima’s CSS Browser Selector yet, you should check it out. It is a 1K JavaScript file that lets you easily add CSS to your web page for specific browsers, operating systems,…
September 20, 2011
Reverse Project Estimation
TCG has a big goal we have been working towards for a number of years now. The plan is to save American taxpayers ONE BILLION DOLLARS by 2016. One of the ways we save government money is by suggesting and using existing…
September 14, 2011
Use your iPhone/Laptop/Android as a remote control for MythTV
Four years ago, a blogger named Kyle blogged about a simple but effective web script that allows most smart phones to control a MythTV setup. Though he built his script for MythDora, it works wonderfully on MythBuntu with the following steps as root (assuming…
September 6, 2011
Invitations From the Captain Can Not Be Declined
For as long as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed reading. As I’ve aged the kinds of books that I find interesting have been expanding. Historical fiction never interested me as a youth, but as an adult I found a number of authors in this genre…
August 18, 2011
Estimation Is a Loser’s Game
How many times a day do you estimate the time and effort required to complete a project? I bet it is a lot more than you think. Did you recently adjust your alarm clock? Before you did that I expect that you, perhaps subconsciously, did…
August 16, 2011
Fight Mail Bounce Spam with a Catch-all Address
If you send an email to a non-existant address, most mail servers are polite and will send you your message back with a notice that it couldn’t be delivered (called a mail “bounce”). Alas, this service can be hijacked to send spam. How?…