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May 7, 2012
DATA Act Sets Taxpayers Against Grants Recipients
H.R. 2146 provides no money to grantees and contractors for the reporting they will be required to do.
May 3, 2012
Lack of Documentation a Common Audit Finding
If you don't write it down, you might as well not do it when it comes to A133 audits.
March 30, 2012
TCG’s Judith Turner Nominated to NGMA Board of Directors
TCG vice president Judith Turner has been nominated to the Board of Directors of the National Grants Management Association (NGMA). Ms. Turner is one of seven candid ates the NGMA nominating committee chose for the new board. The full slate…
March 29, 2012
Project: Facebook Data Liberation — Part 2
Back in Part 1 I explained why I’m making this HTML5 application. The condensed version of what I’m making is a web/mobile app that can read a running/fitness Facebook group feed, display the complete list of posts in it, and scan all the content…
March 28, 2012
GAO to FEMA: Make Sure Grants Programs Do Not Overlap
The GAO can't tell whether four of FEMA's grants programs overlap, because FEMA doesn't collect enough information on recipients.
March 1, 2012
Online Grants Manual Part of Maryland’s Grants Library
The Maryland Governor’s Grants Office has put its grants managers’ manual on its website along with other resources that applicants and administrators might need. One link on the site, for instance. lets businesses download a document that contains finance programs for…
December 30, 2011
Faster Random Numbers in JavaScript
There is a non-deterministic cellular automaton simulation that I have coded in a few in different languages on everything from a Commodore Vic-20 to an Android phone. It’s basically a grid populated by various colors that change states based on some random probabilities. Ok, that…
December 29, 2011
Audio Effects for HTML5 Based Mobile Apps
I’ve been experimenting a bit with HTML5 mobile applications. One of the funny little corners I’ve found is how to reliably use audio effects across platforms. The HTML5 spec includes an <audio> tag. Unfortunately I found it to be a little quirky, especially…
PHP Code Review Checklist
I recently created a code review checklist for a PHP based project I was working on. If you want to be pedantic, it’s actually a list of questions that the reviewers should ask themselves as they look through the code.
This isn’t an exhaustive…
December 28, 2011
Effective Image Buttons for HTML5 Mobile Apps
Mobile application development doesn’t always mean native apps for iPhone and Android. If you are an experienced web developer you can use HTML5 to make great apps that have a great look and feel.
I’m working on a small HTML5 mobile app…