Pinky Gone Driving Little tidbits not meant for human consumption

Version Control is a process of keeping track of the state of a project at specific points in time. The traditional use of this technology is in software development, where many small changes can interact in complex ways, and it is important to know when and what changes were made that might have caused errors. I have been using version control for my work since the first time as a graduate student that I broke one of my numerical codes as I was adding a feature and I really wanted to just go back to the way it was before I broke it, but instead I had to spend two days discovering exactly what I had done and undoing it. I've been using Subversion for five years now and I have been quite happy with it. With the emergence of Distributed Version Control Systems, I saw an opportunity to change my version control software and gain features that I had long desired.

I'm working on a new website for the Waverly Area Celiac Support Group: www.waverlyareaceliacs.org and it's still in the very early stages. It's currently just a bunch of hand-typed HTML with some id attributes to enable using CSS. But, people keep telling me more and more things that they would like to see up on that website so I'm afraid to put too much more work into the static HTML version for fear of having to replace it with something more advance, or suffer when making frequent updates. The other option is to start right now with a Drupal-based site and never have to update, although the initial setup will take longer.