November 30, 2011

TCG’s Dr. Robert Buccigrossi Awarded ACM Senior Membership

TCG’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Robert “Butch” Buccigrossi, has been awarded the Senior Member Grade by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society with over 92,000 members, delivers resources that advance computing…

Like the new design?

Thanks to the great work of our friend Hadley Langosy, Behind the Curtain at TCG now sports a spanky new look! Aside from being a lot nicer to read, posts are now easier to share with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and…
November 25, 2011

Print envelopes via a web site using ASP.NET and C#

I was recently asked if it was possible to add a print feature to a web site.  But not the normal “print this page” link you see all the time on the web, this was printing address pulled from a database onto standard…
November 23, 2011

Telework Exchange Announces 2nd Annual Telework Week

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 its second annual Telework Week will be held March…
November 22, 2011

Telecommuting is great for productivity (but possibly bad for families?)

Telecommuting GOOD! And also telecommuting sometimes bad, maybe.
November 14, 2011

Array Deep Contains Function for JavaScript

I needed a bit of JavaScript that would look at an array of objects and see if it contained an element that matched a certain criteria.  I’m sure that this is online somewhere, but I couldn’t turn it up.  There are lots of…
November 10, 2011

Best, or at Least Better, Practices for Ajax Enabled Forms Using JQuery

For an internal project I am working on at the NIH we decided to make a nice Ajax enabled user edit form.  It’s quite simple.  When you first view the page there is a drop down box where you can select users.  When…

TCG’s Dan Turner Participates in Inc. 500|5000 Interview

TCG’s president, Dan Turner, recently attended the annual Inc. 500|5000 awards ceremony to accept TCG’s award and was also invited by Inc. reporters to participate in a q‑and‑a session with other executives from winning companies. To read the full press release…
November 9, 2011

TCG Employee nominated for “HDI Capital Area Analyst of the Year”

Our very own Jose Angelo Rodriguez Ramilo has been nominated (and rightfully so) for Help Desk Analyst and Desktop Technician of the Year. The awards luncheon is scheduled for December 9, 2011. Nominees and winners will be acknowledged at the…
November 3, 2011

Is Wikipedia Really a First Page Search Result for Everything?

CC image courtesy of quartermane on Flickr I like Wikipedia quite a lot. It is usually the first place I turn to find factual information about a topic.  There are some people who don’t trust the site…notably my children’s elementary school teachers.  Generally…