So I bought Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama. I’m about halfway through the first section now, entitled “Origins”. Observations:

• The book was published 12 years ago.
• Barack was 33 when it was published and he is now 45.
• He was born in Hawaii and later moved to Indonesia.
• Barack’s full name is Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
• Barack Sr. was from Kenya. He died when Barack was 21.
• Barack’s mother, Ann, was from Kansas. She died just after the book came out.
• Barack Sr. married Ann then later left when when Barack was two.
• Barack’s mother remarried an Indonesian man, Lolo. He also died when Barack was young.
• Barack has a half-sister, Maya.

So far the book is an enjoyable and informative read. I like how much empathy Mr. Obama possesses. It really is apparent when he is describing his parents life before he is born.

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Here is how I set up my web development workflow. As this first figure illustrate, you start with an initial Subversion (or CVS) repository. You then checkout (1) a working copy of the repository to any development severs you want to work on as well as the production server.

You then proceed to make changes and develop your site. When you want to share your changes with the rest of the other developers (or if you want to get ready to push the site to production) proceed as follows. In the second figure, step (2) is where you update your local copy. This will make sure the files you are working with are as current as possible. After you update, you can then commit (3) the changes. Committing will upload your changes to the repository. Continue repeating steps (2) and (3) throughout the site development and maintenance.

Whenever you wish to push a version of the site to the production server, you can run an update command and freshen the files.