It sure is.

activerecord-import 0.2.9 has been released today for some maintenance and dependency updates matching the release of Rails 3.2.

Five years ago, when we started Mutually Human, we shared the belief that colocation was essential to build the type of community and organization that we wanted to work in, be a part of, and invite others to join. My thinking was primarily around the social and relationship aspects of being physically present with one another... this remote worker phenomena isn't going to go away... Over the past five years, opinions have changed, both mine and those at Mutually Human...

Our circumstances and choices progress in tandem pushing against each other; forever interleaving throughout time is the consciousness of our minds and the environment of our circumstance; perpetually leading to a new circumstance and a new choice. This is to say, that, circumstance can influence our choices as much as our choices can influence our circumstance...

Today, I sat down at a standing desk, glanced down momentarily at the orange HTML5 sticker on the closed lid of my Mac Book pro, closed my eyes, and took a deep breath. A moment later I lifted the lid and watched as it awoke from its sleep. So many desktop icons, so many open applications — even the dock is flush from the top to the bottom of the screen. This clutter will have to wait. There’s much to get done.

A group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a company so that they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately...

The days before we had formulated opinions, conventions, and tastes; when we gleefully stumbled through unknown obstacles and challenges to garner a little understanding; when we did it whatever way we could because we had no idea what the right way might have been; when &lquot;best practice&rquot; meant whatever we were doing right then because that was the only practice we had; when every victory no matter how small felt monumental.