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March 15, 2012
Adrianne Fielding New NGMA Executive Director
Adrianne Fielding is taking over as Executive Director of the National Grants Management Association. She comes from Thompson Publishing, where she was Grants Managing Editor, steering some 30 of their products. Adrianne was a member of the NGMA board and…
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 5, 2012
SmartCEO Recognizes TCG Management Team
TCG’s president, Dan Turner, and the TCG executive management team are featured in two articles in the March issue of SmartCEO magazine. TCG’s management team is featured as one of the best senior leadership teams in Washington, DC, and is…
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. …
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…
February 28, 2012
OMB: What Do You Think About Reforming Cost Principles and Single Audit?
OMB heads up: comments are going to be solicited soon on proposed changes to grants and cooperative agreements.
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…