Git and HG Working Together

So I have taken a new job and the one thing that concerned me was the fact that they use mercurial as their version control system. I am a long time svn user but recently, about 8 months ago, switched to git partly because my work was switching to git. I was in charge of converting the main project I worked on from svn to git and that process was pretty simple (considering that converting history was not a top concern). Ever since then I have been one of two go to people at my current employment for git questions. I have completely embraced the git way and the system is pretty simple but still very powerful. The best thing I like about it is that it really allows the user to define the workflow instead of forcing a particular workflow on you like other version control systems do. The only downside to git is that to extend functionality, you need to write bash scripts (though through the process, I have become better at it).

I was able to attend the jQuery Boston 2010 conference a while back thanks to my employer and it was a pretty good experience. Conferences are pretty good events to go to for socializing/networking with like minded people and to learn some new tips and tricks. Since I am not the most sociable person in the world, it was lucky that I did indeed learn some new things about jQuery and JavaScript in general.

I wanted to regularly post on my blog but it has been a while since my last post. Since my last post, I got a new job (kinda, been over 4 months now) that has turned so far to be a pretty good upgrade in my career as a web developer. The job is located in boston which is the last place I though I would ever take a job because of what I though the commute would be but in reality, the commute is not all the bad (considering I drive to the subway and not directly into boston).

In about five days all my domains, including this one, are going to be transfered to godaddy. I don't except any type of outages when moving the domains but the move of my domains is in preparation for me possibly moving servers before the end of the year. If I do end up moving to a new server, I may have some outages (hope to keep them to a minimum). Whether or not I move to a new server is going to depend on how well the next few weeks of testing ASP.NET MVC 3 goes. If I decide that I really want to get into it in-depth, then I will need to move to a server that has windows on it as I am not even going to try to deal with running ASP.NET through MONO on a linux server.

I just wanted to make sure I don't freak out the 10's of users I get per month if my website does not load for a brief period of time.