Posts by Matthew Burton
Open Source Government Tidbits
BY Matthew Burton | Wednesday, July 22 2009
A few brief items about the progress of open source software within the US Government: The US Postal Service just finished migrating its 1300 servers from Solaris to Linux. It's part of a wider effort to move its entire ... Read More
Wikipedia Reaches Out to NIH (and vice versa)
BY Matthew Burton | Sunday, July 19 2009
The National Institutes of Health scores big points for this: on July 16, they hosted Wikipedia staff and scientists at their headquarters in Bethesda, MD, for an all-day "Wikipedia Academy." The goal of the event was to ... Read More
Some Thoughts on Firefox @ DoS
BY Matthew Burton | Thursday, July 16 2009
I wrote a Web application for a federal agency, and last week, it was deployed. Two days ago, a systems administrator wrote to tell me that he was experiencing errors when using the app with Internet Explorer 6. "And you ... Read More
Quintessential E-Government in Muncie, Indiana
BY Matthew Burton | Sunday, July 12 2009
According to legend, a man disguised as a pizza delivery boy used to shuttle secret communiques between the CIA's and NSA's respective headquarters, about 25 miles apart. This was before the two agencies' networks were ... Read More
Playing Accountant With California's Budget Crisis
BY Matthew Burton | Friday, July 10 2009
It is easy to be an armchair critic of government spending. When you're not on the ground, solving budget deficits is simply a matter of "cutting pork": governments spend money left and right! Finding places to save ... Read More
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