July 24, 2011

A rose by any other name…

Over the last couple days I’ve read a few article linked on Hacker News about the “real name” problem on social web sites. I first heard other people talking about this a few years ago when Twitter was taking off.  A lot of ‘famous’…
July 18, 2011

NIH BCIG Announces Fall 2011 Program

The NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group (BCIG) has announced its Fall 2011 Program. All sessions are free and open to the public. For more information visit the BCIG home page. Fall 2011 Program Sep  1:    BCIG Brainstorming Power Breakfast (unstructured…
July 6, 2011

Emergency Recovery of Zimbra’s OpenLDAP

Last weekend (July 3rd, 2011), Washington had a tremendous thunderstorm, which led to a long power outage.  We have a number of experimental and development virtual machines in our local server farm that were impacted, but what was truly hit hard was an…
June 20, 2011

Test in Peoria, Test in Düsseldorf , Test in 東京

Have you ever had someone mispronounce your name?  It doesn’t happen to me often because I have a simple enough name, but it does bug me when it happens.  Names don’t always follow the normal pronunciation rules so it’s not really the…
June 15, 2011

NITRC Passes Milestone

NITRC–the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse–recently passed the 3,000 registered users level and now has 383 registered tools available for users. TCG built and operates NITRC for NIH. Under this contract, TCG established a web-based clearinghouse for neuroimaging analysis tools,…
May 23, 2011

NIH Awards First-Time Grant to Long-Time Grants Management Experts

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded TCG a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop a cloud-based data sharing system for neuroscience. While TCG has helped agencies manage tens of thousands of grants for others for 17 years,this is…
May 17, 2011

AABPA Conducting Survey of Federal Budget Professionals

The American Association for Budget and Program Analysis (AABPA) has joined forces with Grant Thornton LLP to conduct a survey of Federal budget professionals. This survey covers budget formulation, budget and performance integration, budget execution, resource constraints, congressional issues, systems and…
April 20, 2011

LAMHDI Exhibits at Experimental Biology Conference

LAMHDI, the initiative to Link Animal Models to Human DIsease, exhibited at the recent Experimental Biology conference at the Washington Convention Center in DC. The conference attracted well over 10,000 researchers, students, exhibitors, and practitioners, many of whom visited the…
January 4, 2011

Executive Leaders Radio Issues Case Study about TCG’s Dan Turner

Executive Leaders Radio, which airs on Washington, DC’s WHFS 1580 AM, has issued a case study about TCG President Dan Turner. The case study, which highlights how Mr. Turner built TCG into the success story that it is today by “delegating…
December 30, 2010

TinyMCE WYSIWYG BBCode Editor

TinyMCE does have a pretty functional BBCode Editor, but the latest version doesn’t work perfectly out of the box.  Specifically, in the sample on the TinyMCE page, quotes and code styles are not displayed differently and quotes cannot be embedded (i.e.…