It’s busy times these days at Relish. We just turned 4 and are moving to a new office that we’re gutting and renovating. Oh yeah, and we’re still doing some great work for a number of new clients!
All this adds up to us needing to add some new people to help us navigate and build out the series of tubes that make up the Internet. As we all know, the internet is NOT a big truck. This is not a joking matter! We need top notch web plumbers …
We all know that it’s tough to find good Flash guys (let alone girls) out there. So at Relish we’ve decided to take an unorthodox approach and start grooming new employees at a younger age and lock them into exclusive, 50 year contracts. In order to attract the best talent out there we also have to give them senior positions with fancy titles.
I’m excited to announce that yesterday our first new hire of this type joined the company and was introduced via a video chat live over the interwebs. I’m pleased to introduce Jade, our new VP …
Please join us as we welcome the newest Relish team member into the fold: Sammy van Noistrom, the SVN bot. Now I know what you’re thinking…
Who is Sammy?
Does Relish hire robots?
I’m a robot; can I work at Relish?
What is an SVN bot?
Alright, alright — let me quell some of the confusion by answering some of these right now.
Let’s start with the only non-ridiculous question…
What is an SVN bot, anyways?
See, when all the Relishers are all working away at our various projects and we commit some files to our subversion (SVN) …
Real-world version of an interface many of us have spent way too long looking at. Pretty impressive, I must say.
As happens to a lot of smaller web shops, we’ve been so busy doing client work that we’ve neglected to update our own site. We all like the current site and didn’t want to go in a radically different direction, but thought it could use a bit of a refresh. A little spring cleaning if you will.
Below are some before and after shots to compare the difference or you can check out the real thing online. What do you think?
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