Posted on June 20th, 2007 in Agile by siddharta || 1 Comment
Some Agile buzz from CIO Magazine: How Agile Development Can Lead To Better Results And Technology-Business Alignment
The Standish Group, which famously compiles its Chaos data on software project failures, reported in its 2006 research that just 16 percent of waterfall projects succeeded as opposed to 41 percent of agile projects. Standish Group Chairman Jim Johnson, who has been studying project failures for years, says it “boggles” his mind why companies still resist agile development. “To say that companies or CIOs are reluctant to embrace agile is like saying they wouldn’t take aspirin for a headache,” he says. “And they’re not only not taking the aspirin, they’re banging their heads against the wall and wondering why it hurts.”
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):
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