Guild Blogs

Having recently been involved with a team that was being exhorted to "step up" and "go the extra mile" I noticed a range of responses from "lets go" to "why bother" to "I don't think so". After thinking about the response I identified several personal fa… more »

Brian Marick posted here and here about burnbown chart styles and I thought I'd chime in with my variation. I use a slight modification of Kelly's burndown. I always put the remaining work on top of the bar and use real dates across the bottom. Addition… more »

I was talking with Scott Hanselman (gratuitous name drop) about the difference between rpc and document style. It took me a moment since I don't deal with SOAP internals much any more. It occurred to me shortly thereafter that I don't really care other t… more »

Interesting bit of detective work the other day I thought I'd share with everyone. A friend of a friend was having trouble with an ASP 2.0 project that was ported to ASP.NET. Turns out that on some web servers the different clients were getting their dat… more »

Ask E.T. had a pointer to Dotplot. An entire software module of a telecommunications switch about two million lines of C. Seems to be some interesting visualization here. I'll have to keep this one in the memory banks for future use. more »