Guild Blogs

1. What Does It Mean To Run A Project Using An Agile Process? The term agile refers to a set of patterns and practices that builds a highly collaborative partnership between the business and IT, promotes team communication and delivers functional softw… more »

A popular requirement to display data in a custom .NET Winform application is to structure the data in a hierarchical tree-view format. However, the built-in support for this type of display is limited. Using the ComponentOne FlexGrid control, one can… more »

Cliff Atkinson has recently produced several microcasts (using Camtasia)demonstrating several key aspects of his new book "Beyond Bullet Points". I've enjoyed Cliff's eye opening series on how to make stunning PowerPoint presentations. Hidden Storyb… more »

Okay, so I'm hyping a bit. So give me a break...this little gem took me a few days to write and weeks to refine in the 90's. Anyway, I updated it to take advantage of the "dynamic aggregator" approach shown in my previous query. So you are probabl… more »

You record the Superbowl on the PVR so you can watch the commercials, but your wife makes you watch some of the plays... more »

With the Open Source community back in the spotlight I'm truly perplexed by what motivates them http://www.technewsworld.com/story/40315.html, and I have mixed emotions about the effect they've had on the software industry. I respect someone who puts… more »

I've come to rely on this great little utility from Steve Miller. Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the… more »

Scott Came will be serving as chair of this committee charged with coordinating the development of reference exchange documents initiated by prosecutors. more »