Working from Home Done Right
So today, for the first time while being at The Shop, I did a Work from Home. There have been a lot of times in the last three months that other guys in the group have done it, but today was a first for me. I have to say, the IT guys at The Shop know how to do it right. I've been at a lot of places with VPN access, and it's always the same: you either control a desktop with RDC/VNC or you have full VPN and it's Cisco and locks you out of all other network activity - save that that goes through the VPN.
The Shop does it right - all SSH tunneling and it's all automatic. I open up my MacBook Pro at home and it's exactly the same as being at work. There's no configuration changes, there's nothing to do, or worry about. Email is clean, calendar is there… it's all working just like I was sitting at my desk at work.
Of course, this means working at Starbucks or Panera is also as nice.
Holy Cow! I'd dreamed that this could be possible, but I've never really been at a place that was done this nicely. It's effortless and seamless. You can't ask for anything better than that.