Posted on June 13th, 2007 in Tool, Catalyst by siddharta || No Comment
Some good news. A new version of Silver Catalyst has been released. It’s been exactly a month since the first version was released. As mentioned in my previous post, the new version allows you to enter data in multiple scripts (of course, you need to have the relevant fonts installed on your system).
Here is an example screenshot
You can download the new version from the download page. Follow the upgrade instructions on that page to upgrade your version of Silver Catalyst.
Posted on June 8th, 2007 in unicode, Tool, Catalyst by siddharta || 1 Comment
If all goes to plan, this weekend should see a new release of Silver Catalyst with Unicode support. Right now Silver Catalyst has a nasty bug where it dies if you try to enter non-ascii characters. The fix is almost done, so soon you will be able to input data in any script.
Here is a preview image of what it looks like (click to enlarge):
Posted on May 31st, 2007 in django, python, Product design, Tool, Catalyst by siddharta || 26 Comments
One of the cool things about Silver Catalyst (which is a Django app) is that you can start using it right out of the box. I didn’t want the team working their way around Apache and MSSQL configurations, Python version incompatibilities, database access issues and deployment hassles. The final solution was a simple executable, which when run would start everything required to get going.
In this post, I’ll explain how that was achieved.
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Posted on May 26th, 2007 in Tool, Agile by siddharta || No Comment
Yesterday I wrote about the times when you need an agile tool. Today I’ll look at the opposite case: Situations where you do not need an agile tool.
Continue reading ‘When do you NOT need an agile tool?’ »
Posted on May 25th, 2007 in Tool, Agile by siddharta || 1 Comment
Why do you want to use a scrum tool? I’ll hazard a guess and say that you have a distributed team. At least, thats the reason Silver Catalyst was written. Co-located teams can use index cards and information radiators, but distributed teams need a better way to communicate (see the pm story).
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