Category: Technology
March 16, 2012
Every Project Needs a Cat … or Why CMMI Works For Me
When the cat is away, the mice will play.
Earlier this month, TCG was re-confirmed as a CMMI Level 2 organization. Many people look at the CMMI documentation and think that it is a lot of overhead, but that’s not the way I see…
March 15, 2012
Web Accessibility Pays Off in Spades … or Why You Shouldn’t Count on JavaScript
Every web designer tries to make their sites as usable, understandable, and beautiful as possible. Web accessibility is the practice of ensuring that you site is equally usable and understandable for all people, including the disabled. It may not be obvious,…
March 14, 2012
Protect Yourself Against Surprise Cloud Hosting Fees
There are lots of great things about hosting a web site or service in the cloud, but price stability is not one of them. There are numerous ways a small project can get hit with a bill that is many times more than…
March 8, 2012
Debuging Dynamic JavaScript
I have always been a fan of integrated debuggers. They really help me think about tricky bits of code and verify that my solution is correct. While testing my code I like to use a debugger to watch all my variables and boolean…
March 4, 2012
Are you having problems with VirtualBox giving out of memory errors?
In a previous post I described how I use Virtual Machines while doing software development. A few weeks ago I started getting memory errors when I launched a VM without closing down any other VM I had running. Specifically, I would get a VERR_EM_NO_MEMORY error with a result code of 0x80004005. …
February 28, 2012
Virtual Development Paradigm
I use virtual machines (VM) for nearly all my development. When I am doing any serious work, the first step is to fire up VirtualBox on my desktop and launch the VM that I am using for that project. If you don’t…
February 14, 2012
TCG Customer Named Federal 100 Award Winner
Christopher Friedline, program manager for the Department of the Treasury/Bureau of the Public Debt Budget Formulation and Exectuion Manager (BFEM) program, has been named a 2012 Fed 100 awards winner. The awards, which are sponsored by Federal Computer Week, recognize 100…
February 7, 2012
Telework Exchange to Host Complimentary Webcast
The Telework Exchange, an Alexandria-based public-private partnership focused on demonstrating the tangible value of telework and serving the emerging educational and communication requirements of the Federal teleworker community has announced that it will host a complimentary Webcast titled “Turn the Key…
January 31, 2012
TCG Customer Recognized as Excellence.Gov Award Finalist
The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) has announced that the Department of the Treasury’s Budget Formulation and Execution Manager (BFEM) program is a finalist for the 2012 Excellence.Gov Awards in the Excellence in Enterprise Efficiencies category. TCG…
January 6, 2012
Telework Exchange Announces Spring 2012 Town Hall Meeting
The Telework Exchange–a public-private partnership focused on eliminating telework gridlock–has announced that its Spring 2012 Town Hall Meeting will be held Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at the D.C. Convention Center.
The spring program will focus on the fundamentals that empower…