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February 12, 2024
DJEI: Faces in the Crowd: Alexandre Dumas
We love books! They provide solace and great company, provoke thought, and, if you’re fortunate, you can gain a bit of scholarship and infinite wisdom to help along with life. Throughout the course of history, books have proven to be instrumental…
The Most Important Civil Rights Leader You Haven’t Heard Of
In 2019, TCG adopted Marvin Caplan Park, a small greenspace a few blocks from TCG’s headquarters. This was part of our annual social cause that year to support state, local, and national parks. In 2023, TCGers voted to renew that commitment to…
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Spotlight on Dolores Huerta
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we would like to spotlight Dolores Huerta. Huerta is an activist and labor leader who co-founded what would become the United Farm Workers. With a long career as a civil rights advocate, at 93 she is…
September 14, 2020
Enter Date: “Next Tuesday” and Why RPA is Overhyped
by Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
Imagine going to a website, typing “Next Tuesday” into a date field, and it works. This magical capability already exists and is provided by a built-in PHP function called “strtotime”.
Why doesn’t everyone use strtotime? Because, it’s…
August 13, 2020
Managing Cloud Spending is a Challenge; Here Are Some Ways Agencies Can Improve
By Daniel Proctor, TCG Data Analyst
Over the last ten years, spending on cloud services has increased across federal agencies. In 2010, OMB made cloud computing an essential part of government’s plan to modernize IT and IT management, and early…
June 30, 2020
Black Lives Matter
TCG supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
TCG supports the protests against police violence.
TCG demands that we individually and as a country recognize and reject America’s racist past and present, in education, in health outcomes, in criminal justice, in policy,…
December 10, 2019
Healthier, Safer Code with Static Analysis
By Al Crowley, TCG Principal Engineer
Sometimes good people do bad things. Occasionally a person even commits an API key to a public GitHub repository. Once in a while, that person is you—but last month that person was me. The good news is…
October 31, 2019
Baby Sharks, Home-Run Dance Parties, and Gov’t Contracting? Lessons on Culture from a World Series Champion
by Peter Fedders, Employee Happiness Associate
All Major League Baseball clubs use analytics these days, and none more than the Houston Astros. The Astros fired most of their scouts and replaced them with data- and video-based analysts. And it worked…
July 15, 2019
Our High Road Story So Far…
Last year, TCG made a pledge to be a High Road Employer. A High Road Employer supports a set of principles developed by the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) that encourages businesses to better serve their employees and the world around them by making…
June 27, 2018
Hear, Hear! TCGer Cherrie Reid Graduates from the ACT-IAC Voyagers Program
Congratulations are in order for Cherrie Reid, Project Manager at TCG and Program Chair of the ACT-IAC Emerging Technology Community of Interest. Recently, Cherrie graduated from the ACT-IAC Voyagers Program, a leadership development program for rising leaders in government and industry.…