Blog
January 25, 2012
TCG Executive Team Wins 2012 SmartCXO Award
TCG’s executive management team has been named one of the best senior leadership teams in Washington, DC, by the 2012 SmartCXO Awards. The awards are sponsored by SmartCEO magazine. Hats off to our team—they truly deserve this recognition! To read…
January 6, 2012
Telework Exchange Announces Spring 2012 Town Hall Meeting
The Telework Exchange–a public-private partnership focused on eliminating telework gridlock–has announced that its Spring 2012 Town Hall Meeting will be held Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at the D.C. Convention Center.
The spring program will focus on the fundamentals that empower…
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…
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…
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 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…
PHP Code Review Checklist
I recently created a code review checklist for a PHP based project I was working on. If you want to be pedantic, it’s actually a list of questions that the reviewers should ask themselves as they look through the code.
This isn’t an exhaustive list…
December 28, 2011
Effective Image Buttons for HTML5 Mobile Apps
Mobile application development doesn’t always mean native apps for iPhone and Android. If you are an experienced web developer you can use HTML5 to make great apps that have a great look and feel.
I’m working on a small HTML5 mobile app that…
December 27, 2011
Standardized Grants Forms: It’s Hard to Make It Easy
Council on Financial Assistance Reform is trying to make it easier for people and organizations to apply for financial assistance.
Identifying Grants Fraud an Updated Old-fashioned Way
Recovery.gov has been touting its ability to identify waste and fraud in Recovery Act grants, and other grantmaking efforts are taking note. But the most successful methods are also the old-fashioned ones (albeit updated with technology).
The outgoing head of…