Last Friday morning I was greeted me with the “blue screen of death”. It’s not the way I like to start my day. The two largest projects I worked on over the summer were saved on my desktop… and only my desktop. I made a back up of these projects some time ago but I had done a lot of work since the last updates… I felt queazy to say the least.

I can’t stress how important it is to save source code to a version control system. I’ve heard horror stories from other people losing a lot of data, and I always thought it would never happen to me. Unfortunately I lost a lot of data I wish I hadn’t! I guess I’ll just be another person to share a horror story geared towards encouraging people to back-up their data.