Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

http://hginit.com, a wonderfully written Mercurial-tutorial by Joel Spolsky from Fog Creek Software (Trello). Especially when you come from Subversion like me, Joel made me think several times “Ohhh, yes, you’re right!”:

Subversion always gives you this horrible dilemma. Either the repository is full of bugs because it includes new code that was just written, or new code that was just written is not in the repository.

Go check it out: http://hginit.com

SourceTree: free client for Git & Mercurial

Recently I work more and more with products from the guys at Atlassian, like Jira and Confluence. In 2010 they bought the company BitBucket, a Mercurial hoster, and a little bit later its Mac client SourceTree. It is even freeware by now, and I must say it is a very good alternative to terminal.

Sourcetree for Mac
Sourcetree for Mac

http://www.sourcetreeapp.com

Some weeks ago they even got the Windows-Version out:

http://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2013/03/19/introducing-sourcetree-for-windows-a-free-desktop-client-for-git/

Git for Beginners

Do you know Codeschool? Ever heard of CodeAcademy? These are great plattforms for beginners who are willing to start learning to code. It’s like a wizard which guides you through your first steps of programming, really easy and convenient. You can see it in action (with no signing up-hassle) here: http://www.codecademy.com/

The guys from Codeschool have a course about Git, perfect for diving into it:

http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git