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- Two Contestants Booted from American Idol
- U.S. Government Open-Sources IT Dashboard to Help Cut Tech Costs
- What should i do on a first date?
- Does Sara Ramirez have a CD coming out?
- When will the next season of the bachelor or the Bachelorette premier?
- What is something memorable to do on a date?
- Can I get a link to a gay cam?
- Is caffeine good for cramps?
- What is the sweetest thing to say to your significant other?
- Are Matt Leinart And Aly Michalka dating?
- What is the best way to ask a guy out if your a girl?
- New Google Tool Tells You How to Make Your Site Faster
- Who plays Bridgett in 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughters?
- What year did 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' start?
- What does 'SHAN' T' mean?
- What should i wear tomorrow night shoutout?
- What movie is on bet right now? What movie is on bet right now?
- When does Modern Warfare 3 come out in stores?
- Rules of engagement Who played timmys sister?
- How much tongue do you use when kissing?
| Two Contestants Booted from American Idol Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:30 PM PDT Find out who's heading home after a double elimination - and who made season 12's top 9 |
| U.S. Government Open-Sources IT Dashboard to Help Cut Tech Costs Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:12 PM PDT      The United States government has made its IT Dashboard, a cost-cutting tool for federal transparency, freely available for anyone, especially other governments, to use and customize. The IT Dashboard gives citizens important information on how the government uses tax money for technology initiatives across various agencies. Citizens can see how government investments are paying off, and they can compare types of IT spending over time by accessing easy-to-reach charts and graphs. But this clarity of and access to vital information isn't just good for citizens; it's also used by the Federal Government, including Congress, to make important decisions about IT budgets and spending. Open-sourcing this cost-saving tool is part of the government's larger plan to save on IT by eliminating redundant efforts. In other words, the IT Dashboard already exists and has been paid for, and the government isn't going to hide that light under a bushel. Here's a video demonstrating some of the features of the federal IT Dashboard: The government is working with Code for America for this release. In am announcement, CfA said, "The IT Dashboard was a major component of the process the Federal Government employed to save over $3 billion in just its first two years of deployment." In addition to the Dashboard, the government is also open-sourcing the complementary TechStat Toolkit, a set of tools and processes for reviewing any yellow or red flags that might pop up while using the Dashboard. In this video, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra talks about the results the government has seen by using the IT Dashboard and how those results were achieved: But open-sourcing something like this isn't a cakewalk. The government worked with FOSS and government experts, Code for America and CfA's Civic Commons project to get the job done. Project lead Karl Fogel wrote on the Civic Commons blog, "We knew from the beginning that a high-profile project can't be open sourced casually. It's not enough to just put an open license on the code, move development out to a publicly visible repository, and call it done." He continued to note that for the Dashboard, Civic Commons had to ensure that all the code and documentation was safe for public use (i.e., not classified or a government secret) and audit the code; reduce dependencies on proprietary libraries; write documentation; ceate non-sensitive, non-classified sample data; work with the Drupal community; and much more. Interested parties can download the Dashboard code now at SourceForge. While the Dashboard is intended to help governments cut costs and manage IT budgets, we can see such tools coming in handy at just about any large company, tech or otherwise. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, GottfriedEdelman More About: code for america, it dashboard, open source, U.S. government For more Dev & Design coverage:
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| What should i do on a first date? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:45 PM PDT Do Not: Belch, fart, pick your nose, spit, eat with your ... |
| Does Sara Ramirez have a CD coming out? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:44 PM PDT Sara Ramirez will be recording her own album. I was unabl... |
| When will the next season of the bachelor or the Bachelorette premier? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:40 PM PDT The dates for the next season of the Bachelor and Bachelo... |
| What is something memorable to do on a date? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:40 PM PDT Laserpoint would make a fun memorable date. They are loca... |
| Can I get a link to a gay cam? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:40 PM PDT A few good places to find gays are in online chat rooms a... |
| Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:40 PM PDT To date, no study of the possible relationship between ca... |
| What is the sweetest thing to say to your significant other? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:39 PM PDT Hard to say - if you love each other, whispering "I love ... |
| Are Matt Leinart And Aly Michalka dating? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:39 PM PDT Matt Leinart and Aly Michalka has not official announced ... |
| What is the best way to ask a guy out if your a girl? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:39 PM PDT The easiest way is to ask him if he wants to hang out som... |
| New Google Tool Tells You How to Make Your Site Faster Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:30 PM PDT   Google has released Page Speed Online, a Google Labs project that analyzes any website for its speed and gives suggestions on how to improve it. The experimental tool is straightforward to use; just type in a website and Google will come back with suggestions for how to improve that website's speed. The suggestions are ranked as either High, Medium or Low. In addition, Google displays which rules of thumb a website is already following. Each website also gets an over score out of 100. Here are a few examples of site issues that Google says might be slowing down your site:
 While speed analysis tools have been around for years, Page Speed Online has a neat little trick; it can also analyze mobile websites for their performance. And rather than using the same set of suggestions for desktop websites, Google has a fresh set of suggestions for mobile site optimization. Google has been consistently launching tools like Site Performance and its page speed Apache module in order to help speed up the web. The search giant has made speed one of its core missions because a faster web equals more revenue for Google. Which of Google's rules for speed do you still have to implement? Let us know in the comments. Image courtesy of Flickr, Eole More About: Google, Google Page Speed, Google Page Speed Online, page speed, Page Speed Online For more Dev & Design coverage:
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| Who plays Bridgett in 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughters? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:57 PM PDT The Kaley Cuoco plays Bridget Hennessyn 8 Simple Rules Fo... |
| What year did 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air' start? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:54 PM PDT The first air date of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air starrin... |
| Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:52 PM PDT The word "shan't" dated 1664 especially British English, ... |
| What should i wear tomorrow night shoutout? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:52 PM PDT If you are going out to bars or clubs, a casual summer dr... |
| What movie is on bet right now? What movie is on bet right now? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:51 PM PDT The movie on BET right now is 'Kingdom Come.' After the m... |
| When does Modern Warfare 3 come out in stores? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:51 PM PDT Modern Warfare 3 comes out in 2011 but the exact date is ... |
| Rules of engagement Who played timmys sister? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:51 PM PDT You can read all our Rules of Engagement coverage here. E... |
| How much tongue do you use when kissing? Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:51 PM PDT As the kiss warms up, allow your tongue to flicker onto y... |
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