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May 19, 2008
SF424 form changes in Federal Register
The changes to the SF424 form set have been posted to the Federal Register. You can review them here:
SF424 R&R — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10797.htm
SF424 Mandatory — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10796.htm
SF424 A — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10798.htm
SF424 B — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10795.htm
SF424 C –http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10794.htm
SF424 D —…
May 15, 2008
FDP: Update on GMLOB (Take 2!)
This was the second session about GMLOB, and while the majority of the time in this session was spent looking at NSF’s Research.gov, it also included representatives from Education and NIH.…
FDP: Good restaurants near the Fair Lakes Hyatt
This is the first time that the FDP meeting has been held in this part of the world. I live quite close to this location, so I thought a quick list of good local restaurants may be useful! So here it is, in…
FDP: GMLOB Update
Erika Rissi and Stacy Boyd spoke about the new GMLOB strategic landscape. Some interesting developments here, including the new GMLOB Strategic Landscape.…
Reducing Spam Blowback Bounce Messages in Zimbra
With our company’s move to the Zimbra mail server finally complete (and working very well), we noticed an sudden increase of a particular type of spam: fake bounce or mail server error messages. This was surprising since our old mail and…
FDP: Grants.gov Update
The new Grants.gov PMO discussed the status of the system. Eben Trebino introduced the session:
Working with a system built 3 years ago that’s handling four times more capacity than it was designed to manage. Now approaching 130,000 applications being submitted through…
FDP: Agency Updates
Turns out that there is no wifi access in the main meeting room at the FDP meeting, so I’ll be taking notes and posting them as soon as I reach an access point.
The first session provided updates from many Federal…
May 14, 2008
And I’ll be blogging from the FDP meeting
I should have noted that I’ll be blogging from the FDP meeting tomorrow, as long as there’s a wifi network available. (And there’d better be or the hotel will have a riot on its hands!)…
See you at the FDP meeting tomorrow! Although you may miss me…
I’m going to the FDP meeting tomorrow at the Fair Lakes Hyatt in Fairfax, VA. If you’re there, look for the bespectacled fellow furiously typing on a Macbook. Wait… That describes about a third of the audience. Okay… Look for the bespectacled…
May 9, 2008
Git – Fast Version Control System
Git is an open source version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency, but just as well suited for small personal repositories; it is especially popular in the open source community, serving as a development platform…