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.

There is a new game developers group in Boston, MA called Boston Unity Group (or B.U.G). It is being put together by Elliott Mitchell and Alex Schwartz. This group plans to meet about every 2 months and focuses on the Unity game engine.

Well yesterday, as everyone excepted, Steve Jobs announced and demoed the new iPhone and what is now called iOS 4 in the Keynote (among other things like stats on the iPad and talking about some apps too). Now I still have an iPhone 3G, although I do own an iPad but I will write about my experiences on that in another post, and about 8 months left in my contract with AT&T so lets take a look at the new features to see if it is worth the upgrade.