Silver Stripe Blog

I had prepared a screencast for wikicamp on creating a wiki in fifteen minutes using Python and Django. I just finished uploading the screencast. You can view it here (6.7 MB)

Create a wiki in 15 minutes

You might want to download the movie to your local machine first. In that case, I’ve put the files in a zip archive here (4.9 MB)

Download zip archive

I was a volunteer at the Proto.in conference last month. I was a part of the registration desk, and my job was to coordinate the packing of the giveaways for the registrants. There were two types of giveaways: one type of giveaways for the presenters and venture capitalists and another type for the audience. Each type required some packaging like putting on some stickers, bundling a couple of items together and tying them up with a conference badge. One item was common between both the sets of giveaways.

The challenge then, was twofold -

• We needed to have some inventory of packed giveaways so that the giveaway could be given quickly
• Since we didn’t know the exact number of registrants for each type of giveaway and the time when each registrant would arrive, we needed some way of handling the uncertainity

Continue reading ‘Conference giveaways: A mini experiment in pull based production’ »

Catalyst has entered public beta. The beta is available for download here. I would love all of you to try it out and give some feedback so that Catalyst can be made better. The goal is that it should be useful for you, the user, so take a look and let me know what you think.

One of the best ways to learn more about agile processes is to join the discussions on yahoo groups. There are loads of yahoo groups discussing agile. Here are some that I read:

Continue reading ‘Yahoo groups for agile processes’ »

Finally! The Catalyst beta version is ready. There is a lot of stuff that I still wanted to do, but the core functionality is working and I thought it was better to get feedback on the core area as soon as possible. In the meantime, I’ll be continuing to fix bugs and make improvements. If you want to take a look at the beta, sign up for the beta program.

The current beta comes with a 20 day, 10 team member license. If you give feedback, you’ll get an unlimited duration, 10 team member license for the final beta version.

The next beta release is scheduled for Monday, 12th of February. The beta program will be opened to the public soon after that.