John Coder

I’m proud to announce my official entrance to the world of Open Source projects.  I just published OpenIdPortableArea on CodePlex.  It is a pluggable component for ASP.NET MVC that takes advantage of MvcContrib’s Portable Areas.  With relatively few requirements, you are able to add basic OpenId support to your applications.  For details on how to consume this Portable Area, check out the documentation I slaved over!

Proudly, this project is using mercurial.  It includes one sample project to date.  Please, take a few minutes to check it out and provide feedback.

I can’t help it, Mercurial is my favorite VCS right now for several reasons.  I thought it might be helpful to post a list of resources that I’ve come across.

• TortoiseHg - Download and install it!  TortoiseHg adds an item to context menus in Windows Explorer.  It also includes Mercurial.
  
• Mercurial - The Mercurial website; contains lots of educational material.
  
• Mercurial: The Definitive Guide - by Bryan O’Sullivan.  For all of your nitty gritty HG needs.
  
• HgInit - Joel Spolsky’s introduction to Mercurial, with a little reeducation for SVN users.
  
• Hg Tip - Tips for beginner and advanced users alike.
  
• Using Mercurial with CodePlex and GitHub - Great post by Jeremy Skinner.
  
• TekPub: Mercurial with CodePlex (free) - A special free episode.  Rob Conery walks through using Mercurial with CodePlex.
  
• TekPub: Mastering Mercurial - The TekPub series on Mercurial.
  
• VisualHG - Visual Studio plug-in that adds Mercurial to your list of Source Control plug-ins.
  
• BitBucket - A code hosting site for Mercurial.
  
• TeamCity - A continuous integration build management system by JetBrains that Supports Mercurial.  I tried this out recently, and configured it in parallel with VSS for a single project.  When I ran it cold, Hg was 65% faster than VSS.
  
• Reference Cards & Cheat Sheets

If you have anything to add, please comment and I’ll update the post.