"Game" it up

In the hunt to break the "monotonous" routine of sprinting and activities for my team, I thought to experiment with a "Gaming" contest at Kiprosh. I picked up couple of strategy games from http://freeonlinegames.com.

We had 1 hr gameful of fun and laughter with interesting "quick" meetings to invent and come up with new strategies for improving scores (as I gave certain scoring target to be a winner). At the end it become very addictive to leave but team quickly became more charged up and rejuvenated.

It also helped us as team to keep on changing couple of strategies and not to repeat mistakes to achieve higher scores & goals.

Being KIS'ed

I started my journey this March'2010 towards building Kiprosh with foundation, goals and strong inclination towards

• Innovation
• KIS (keep it simple)
• Write Less Do More
• "wow" factor (my favorite and very close to my heart) in whatever we develop or deliver
  

Though its very early to comment but "KIS (keep it simple) yet effective" way of doing things in whatever we do is helping us achieve other important goals too.

I will appreciate thoughts / comments about your experience and experiments on the subject.

N2 vs. Umbraco - CMS made easy

Few days back I was evaluating open source ASP.NET based Content Management System (CMS). I shortlisted 2 of them for my purpose i.e N2 and Umbraco. Competition was not even close as N2 was a clear winner. Though both are categorically advised to be consumed based on web content management requirements i.e. Umbraco is preferable for heavy (or large) and N2 for light (or medium to small) contents.

Umbraco is well positioned in developer community as N2 is pretty new. Umbraco's user base is huge comparatively but still N2 delivers due to its sheer simplicity. I like KIS (Keep It Simple) philosophy while development and N2 enables me to deliver keeping KIS into consideration.

Thanks to Shivani for helping me finalize one of the CMS for our purpose.