Category: Technology
December 30, 2011
Firefox 4 Saved My Android
As a side project I have been working on an HTML5 app designed to permit real-time playing of board and card games on multiple devices (PC, iPhone, Android, etc.). This led to some interesting research about touch events and getting click events to…
Three Ways to Handle Orientation Change on Your Mobile Web Site
Most of the projects that I have worked on used a desktop web browser for a front end. The nice thing about desktop computers is that people don’t go around flipping monitors onto their sides. Another nice thing is that users either keep…
December 19, 2011
NIH Awards NITRC Phase II Contract to TCG
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded TCG a four-year contract to continue its support of the award winning Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), a user-friendly collaboration environment for the neuroinformatics community. This support will allow NIH to enhance…
December 1, 2011
Elegant Code’s Wonderful Blog Series on JavaScript
Up until this point, JavaScript was something I held my nose and used to get dynamic and Ajax interactions working on my websites. jQuery made it more tollerable with its mysterious “$” syntax and its ability to zip through the DOM…
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…
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 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…
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…