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This is ridiculous. My friend Trey works at a big company in Portland, OR.

Move or Quit: “I’ve been working from home for nearly 7 years now. In 2000 I asked my boss if I could work part-time from Corvallis because Mary was moving there. He agreed, and I’ve done work ever since.

The mother organization (12000 employees) has made the decision that people working remotely is not to be allowed. I must either move up to Portland (Santa Clara, CA and Hudson, MA are also allowed) or quit.”

I can imagine that there are a variety of reasons why this big company would want to institute such a policy: security issues, to reduce slack-iness, etc. But rather than forcing people (like my friend Trey) to move, wouldn’t it be better to address the specific security or productivity issues that gave rise to this new “no-tolerance” policy? Or perhaps, in the long run, it’s better for big companies to drive away good people.

(Via Trey.)

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It’s not rocket science, but it surprised me just how painlessly I could set up automatic web site updates from my subversion repository. It’s all documented out there on the net, but this is my chance to record how I manage this site.

My testing ground is a working directory. My published web site is a working directory. When I commit a change, the published site is automatically updated to the latest trunk code.

• Set up the published site as a working directory:
  

  svn co file:///path-to-my-repo my-web-sitedir

• Set up the post-commit hook (in /path/to/my-repo/hooks) to run ‘svn update /path/to/my-web-sitedir’. There are more details in the subversion FAQ

Of course, none of that fancy version control applies to these blog posts. Posts are in a database and there’s a plugin for managing versions.

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Hello, my name is Dave and I’ll be your host this evening.

This is my first post on the Squizion Software weblog. On this blog, I’ll be writing about topics that interest me: software, Linux, OS X, ruby, my family (ok, should have put that last one first).

Check out About Me if you want to know more about me. And enjoy…

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