Blog
May 31, 2010
Notes from AABPA BFELoB panel session, 5/18/2010
I popped along to the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis (AABPA) Symposium panel discussion on how people are using BFELoB-funded tools to improve their budget management activities and took some notes that I thought I’d share with the community…
FDP releases slide decks from May meeting
The FDP has made available all of the presentations from its meeting earlier in May. You can grab the whole lot here: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/fdp/PGA_057092. They include updates from NIH, NSF, Research.gov, ARO, AFOSR, among many others.…
GAO’s Recovery Act report released
Some pretty amazing numbers are included here. LIke this:
“Across the United States, as of May 7, 2010, the Department of the Treasury has paid out $114.8 billion in Recovery Act funds for use in states and localities. Of that…
May 11, 2010
TCG is a 2010 Inner City 100 Winner
TCG has been named by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Bloomberg BusinessWeek as one of the 100 fastest growing inner city companies in the United States. The Inner City 100 program recognizes successful inner city companies and…
May 7, 2010
The Insanity of Stop Loss Market Orders and Impact on Cloud Computing
Computers around the world are ready to sell, sell, sell! I don’t mean on-line stores, but stop loss orders. At first a stop loss order sounds great, if not a necessity: if you hold stock at $100 and you want to protect yourself,…
May 4, 2010
Knowledge management in the cloud exists in government right now
Quoting speakers at the recent Knowledge Management Conference, an article at FCW.com says that…
“The combination of knowledge management and a cloud computing environment is the likely catalyst for open government”
and…
“the questions are: Who owns information in the cloud…
April 28, 2010
Grants.gov — back to normal
I just returned from a little vacation to find this announcement [M‑10–16] from OMB regarding Grants.gov, confirming what many already understood: agencies are instructed to resume using Grants.gov’s “Apply” functionality for all grant programs that are eligible.
This is not a surprise…
TCG Supports Intergovernmental Solutions Award Finalist
TCG is pleased to announced that one of the government programs that we support, the Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business’s (BFELoB) MAX Federal Community, is a finalist for the American Council for Technology (ACT) 2010 Intergovernmental Solutions Awards. The…
April 1, 2010
We now have some sausages
There’s an old saying: “The butcher’s family is always the last one to get the sausages.” (There are variants dealing with shoes, haircuts, and low load mutual funds, but I think I may have made up at least one of those.) We…
March 31, 2010
High Performance Page Caching for Drupal 6.15
On one of our Drupal sites, we had an interesting problem. While the site happily handled up to 600 requests/second (on a 4 Gig, 4 CPU system) with the built-in Drupal page caching turned on, if an editor updated content on the…