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In this week's installment on the Introduction to Git series we take a look at cleaning things up, and working with remote repositories. Starting off, we work with the reset, clean, and revert commands to allow us to control which state of things we'd like to have our repository set to. We can use reset and clean to discard local work and get us back in sync with the repository. We can also use revert to actually move our checkout to any state we like from the repository history.

This week we're excited to hit 700 great Drupal training videos! The videos that are hitting that goal for us are a continuation of our Introduction to Git series. In this installment we are walking through the important task of resolving conflicts in Git, as well as taking a deeper look at several common commands. Conflicts in your code are going to happen, and it's important to understand how to correct those so you can move on with your work.

This week we continue with out Introduction to Git series by diving in and getting a crash course on using Git. We're going to start off by creating our first repository, adding a file to it, making changes, and then seeing how to get Git tracking our work. The other videos this week will dive deeper into looking at your Git history, moving around with that history, and reviewing the changes you've made over time.

• Git Crash Course

Once again, our team will be at DrupalCon, this time in lovely Portland, and providing workshops on the day before the conference officially kicks off (Monday, May 20th). We're happy to say that we will be involved with two different workshops: Plan, Build, Launch: Real-World Drupal and the Performance and Scalability Dream Team.

This week we're kicking off a new series, Introduction to Git, that will teach you to use the Git distributed version control system (DVCS) for source code management (SCM). Git is the version control system used for Drupal core and contributed module development, as well as projects like the Linux kernel, Ruby on Rails, Android, and many, many others. This is an in-depth series that starts with the basics of version control, establishes some terminology, and a base line workflow, then continues to build on that by going beyond the basics of the various Git commands to make the most out of your tools.

Last week we introduced a new group of videos, based on the Lullabot Module Monday articles. This week, we present three more for your enjoyment. In this batch of module goodies we look at making things easier for site editors, setting up a theme style guide right inside the site, how to perform a password reset for all of the users on your site (though we hope you never have to!).

• Style Guide
• Publish Button

I recently had the pleasure of traveling to London to attend DrupalCamp London. There, Joe Shindelar and I taught a one-day Introduction to Drupal workshop. The class was great and the attendees actively participated, as they were very interested in what Drupal has to offer.

For the last two years Lullabot has been writing up a post about a new contributed module every week, in a series called Module Monday. We have almost 100 modules introduced in simple, concise articles. Here at Drupalize.Me we are going to start creating video versions of these Lullabot Module Monday articles so you can have a visual walkthrough of using these modules, in addition to the written overview that the articles provide.

We're excited to share and invite you to our upcoming workshop: Git With It, an introduction to Git at MinneWebCon on April 16th. MinneWebCon is a 2-day, grassroots, knowledge-sharing conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that unites web lovers from every industry.

This week we keep rolling out handy modules that everyone should know about, with a look at two very popular modules for extending the Views module. The first, Entity Views Attachment (EVA), lets you attach any of your views to various entities on your site, like nodes or users. This is handy when you want to display a view as part of another entity on your site, instead of displaying it on its own URL.

This week's release we have three super handy modules to check out when building your site. The Module Filter module is designed to make your site administration life easier but helping you navigate the module administration page. Environment Indicator helps you sort out which site you are currently looking at and working on. This can get confusing if you are following best practices, and have several versions of the site for different stages of work (like development, staging, and live).

This week I am continuing the trend of mini-series with some lessons on deploying your code, in the FREE Deploying Your Code Without a Terminal series. The reason behind this quick set of videos is that not everyone is command line savvy, and not everyone has to be. What is important though, is getting your code into version control, and there are plenty of tools that let you do that using a graphical interface.