For those of you who may not be aware, CaseySoftware is still in the fledgling startup phase. We have few customers and no one is drawing a salary in order to preserve capital. Therefore, everyone working for CaseySoftware also holds down a regular fulltime job. Sometimes this works out quite well, but other times it makes things quite difficult. For example…
For my fulltime job, I am on the road at the moment. I was picked up by my boss at 5am and we hopped a plane to our 2nd largest office in the US. Upon landing and driving to the office, we spent nearly an hour trying to negotiate a connection to our intranet. It worked… somewhat.
After discovering bad cat5, a bad hub, and a bad dsl connection, we installed the VPN client and went to work. Unfortunately, the connection was a bit too unstable for SourceSafe. We can open a project, browse, and see that things are checked out, but we can't check things out ourselves. Therefore, in order to continue development, I have created a repository using my local Subversion install and have gone from there. Eventually, I will have to re-sync the files with the SourceSafe install, but I'll ignore that elephant for now.
In the meantime, I have found a pocket of non-geeks who use Mozilla/Firefox. I guess there is hope. Now we just need to make all of the apps standards compliant…