My quandry with Environmental Science in NJ is resolved; document control via Open Source
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Well, it took a letter from the Attorney General’s office in California, but the idiots at Environmental Science in New Jersey agreed to pay for the shipping of the saw dust back to them. The reason was that it called and contacted my 15-year-old son, and it finally accepted that since he was a minor there had been no legal verbal agreement. It also sent a nice letter that guaranteed that my name would be placed on its permanent “Do Not Call List/Do Not Mail List.” Hallelujah, I am free at last.
I even have a contract job now so that I can get on with my life, and GOD be praised, I did not even lose my house, and I am not forced to move either. You have no idea what thoughts were going through my mind as I contemplated moving to Stamford, CT, or other cities in California or Washington state.
One item I have not mentioned till now is using the version control system called Subversion as a document control methodology. I know this all sounds really complicated, and in some ways it is very complicated, but 99% of the complications are hidden in the application. Subversion is an Open Source program that you can establish in just about any type of server environment, like Windows Server, Linux, or BSD. Then once you have established that program on the server you can use a GUI program called Tortoise SVN - which is also Open Source - to access the database that is maintained by the Subversion application on the server to keep various versions of the documents that your company works on, This way you do not have to worry about someone else in the company overwriting and losing your great thoughts, The Subversion program keeps all the various versions and allows you to retrieve them, as well. This was all written up in TechRepublic newsletters (here).
The Subversion Web Site.
For regular people, no integrated development environment is needed, so you don’t have to download Eclipse, Visual Express, or Ultimate ++. All you need is Subversion and Tortoise SVN and away you go. You don’t need to be a developer; all you need to understand is that Subversion will keep track of all the versions of your documents, and you don’t have to.
Happy Versioning!
[tags]MicroFace, dispute resolved, version, document control, Open Source[/tags]
