Want to upgrade your Silver Catalyst trial license?

If you've been following my agile tools blog, you would have known that Silver Catalyst v1.5 was released a few days ago. You would also have known that the free version of Silver Catalyst comes with a three team member license. This is perfect for use with small teams and for evaluation purposes.

But wouldn't it be cool to use the tool on a real project with the actual team? I know a lot of people would love that.

So I'm doing an experiment. Till the end of this month, I'm giving away a free upgrade of the trial license than can be used by fifty team members. This will probably cover your entire team, so you can use it on a real, live project. It is a license with no time limits and no feature limits. The only thing is that it's still a trial license so it won't be eligible for 'official' support. Not that it matters, because you can shoot me an email anytime nevertheless.

How do you get this upgraded license?

Download the latest version of Silver Catalyst, use it and then review it on your blog with a link back to the Silver Catalyst homepage. The latest version of Silver Catalyst is 1.5.1 released today, so if you've got an older version, you might want to download the latest one. There are no conditions on the review. It can be positive, negative, whatever. Just keep it unbiased and write what you really think about Silver Catalyst.

Then email me at siddharta@silverstripesoftware.com with the URL of your blog post and I'll reply with the upgraded license.

Sounds simple? It is. I'm looking forward to reading the reviews!

Catalyst: Public beta available for download

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.

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.