White stallion

White stallion
Originally uploaded by Siddhi.

A white stallion from Camargue. The Camargue region is famous for its white horses. The horses are born dark, but get lighter with age, until they become pale gray or white.

Removing stale feeds

I've subscribed to around 175 RSS feeds in Bloglines, and I realised that many feeds are no longer updated. I now have the painful job of going through the list and removing those that are no longer updated. There must be a better way to do this.

The Long Tail of Features: Why you should make your product hackable

Simple and usable? Or complex and feature-rich? Users crave simplicity — but with all their favourite features. Worse, every user has a different set of favourite features. How can we satisfy everyone, yet keep the product simple and elegant? Thats the dilemma in product design. In my other blog, I try to solve this problem. Check out The Long Tail of Features: Why you should make your product hackable.

Silver Stripe website is up!

After working on it for most of last week and this, I'm happy to say that the Silver Stripe website is up! Some stuff that you ought to check out:

• The website
• The screenshot tour
• and finally, join the beta program. Its a great chance to see the pre-release version, and you stand to get a free 8 user license for the beta version. More information on the beta signup page.

Of course, if you are into software delivery, and for more about Catalyst, check out the Silver Stripe blog.

Silver Stripe Software

I got my company name approved recently: Silver Stripe Software. With that done, I registered the domain name www.silverstripesoftware.com and setup the Silver Stripe blog there. I've copied over the posts on agile development and catalyst. New posts about catalyst and agile will come on that blog, so if you are interested in development methodologies or catalyst, subscribe to this feed. Other stuff like python and programming will continue on this blog, plus some common interest posts may be cross-posted between the blogs.

Why did I choose the name Silver Stripe Software?

Silver: Elegant, sophisticated, minimalist, smooth.
Stripe: Stand out/rarity (single stripe in plain colour), rank (military stripes)
Software: :)

Next on the agenda: Do the website and complete the beta version of the software. In the meantime, here is the About Me page.

Happy New Year

Its the new year, and less than three weeks to go for Proto.in. We will select the final list of 30 companies by the 5th of January. From Proto blog:

The list of the 30 companies that will be presenting will be announced on the 5th of January 2007. The remaining 20 companies of the first shortlist will be profiled as elaborately as possible and will be included as part of the kit that will be given to all the attendees and VCs for the event, to ensure that they receive attention as well.

We are all pretty excited about this event. Have a great 2007!