Recently, within the last six months or so, I discovered and started using Git. Git is a distributed version control system that allows you to keep a local version of your project and push and merge changes to a centralized repository. There are other workflows, but so far I've only used a centralized version model since I'm typically working by myself on the projects I do. There are dozens of reasons to love Git, and I thought I'd share a few.

1. Local copies of your repository

I'd heard of The Aegir hosting system back in March when I went to Drupalcon DC. I didn't attend any of the workshops for it, but when I ran across a mention of its merits recently after installing Drush on a Linode VPS I thought installing it would be a good opportunity to improve my server setup/admin skills and ease the management of all of the Drupal sites I maintain.

I'm headed to Drupalcon Paris in September, with a brief stop right before in Amsterdam. This will be my first trip to Europe, and I'm looking forward to meeting some Drupalers from Europe. If you'll be there, I'll see you there!