November 29, 2012

TCG’s Angelo Ramilo Nominated for HDI Analyst of the Year Award

TCG’s Angelo Ramilo has been nominated for the HDI Capital Area Analyst of the Year Award. This annual award recognizes support analysts that exemplify the best of the best in the industry and who demonstrate knowledge and understanding of industry…
November 16, 2012

Collaborating Across Agencies

The secrets to effective collaborative efforts across federal agencies are the same as the keys to good projects within agencies.
May 7, 2012

DATA Act Sets Taxpayers Against Grants Recipients

H.R. 2146 provides no money to grantees and contractors for the reporting they will be required to do.
May 3, 2012

Lack of Documentation a Common Audit Finding

If you don't write it down, you might as well not do it when it comes to A133 audits.
March 30, 2012

TCG’s Judith Turner Nominated to NGMA Board of Directors

TCG vice president Judith Turner has been nominated to the Board of Directors of the National Grants Management Association (NGMA). Ms. Turner is one of seven candid ates the NGMA nominating committee chose for the new board. The full slate…
March 29, 2012

Project: Facebook Data Liberation — Part 2

Back in Part 1 I explained why I’m making this HTML5 application. The condensed version of what I’m making is a web/mobile app that can read a running/fitness Facebook group feed, display the complete list of posts in it, and scan all the content…
March 28, 2012

GAO to FEMA: Make Sure Grants Programs Do Not Overlap

The GAO can't tell whether four of FEMA's grants programs overlap, because FEMA doesn't collect enough information on recipients.
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…
December 30, 2011

Faster Random Numbers in JavaScript

There is a non-deterministic cellular automaton simulation that I have coded in a few in different languages on everything from a Commodore Vic-20 to an Android phone.  It’s basically a grid populated by various colors that change states based on some random probabilities.  Ok, that…
December 29, 2011

Audio Effects for HTML5 Based Mobile Apps

I’ve been experimenting a bit with HTML5 mobile applications.  One of the funny little corners I’ve found is how to reliably use audio effects across platforms.  The HTML5 spec includes an <audio> tag.  Unfortunately I found it to be a little quirky, especially…