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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 8, 2011
10+ Years of Telecommuter Wisdom
I have more than 10 years experience as a telecommuter. Every year I learned something for myself that would have been nice in a set of guidelines to have before I started to work from home.
Year 1: Cancel your cable television. You will get…
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…
Like the new design?
Thanks to the great work of our friend Hadley Langosy, Behind the Curtain at TCG now sports a spanky new look! Aside from being a lot nicer to read, posts are now easier to share with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and…
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 23, 2011
Telework Exchange Announces 2nd Annual Telework Week
The Telework Exchange, an Alexandria-based public-private partnership focused on demonstrating the tangible value of telework and serving the emerging educational and communication requirements of the Federal teleworker community has announced that its second annual Telework Week will be held March…
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…