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The Homepage of Erik Mitchell, a Web Developer in Minneapolis, Minnesota

It's a small price for a great service

I just upgraded my account at Github to the $7 a month “micro” plan. I have a couple of projects that I’d like to post there, but not have them be public. The micro plan provides 5 private repositories.

For those who haven’t tried Git for version control, I can’t recommend it enough. If you’ve never used version control before, it can be a little much to get your head around, but once you’ve started using it, you’ll never feel right without it.

Check out this webcast for a great introduction to Git.

New Look to the Site

Another attempt at getting the blog going again. This time with a cleaner theme. I like it so far.

Hopefully when I want to put something down for posterity, I’ll remember to do it here. I’ll probably be doing a Snow Leopard upgrade this weekend, and with that rebuilding my Apache/PHP environment. I’ll be taking the opportunity to document the process at that time. There’s really no site out there that does a good job of it that I’ve found.