Did someone say lunch
Sentia has developed a tradition of Friday company lunches. The issue that has been coming up is simplest way to get the order together and as Sentia continues to grow it takes longer as you can’t just interrupt developers mid code session.
So the solution seems to be to create a simple lunch order app. Once its done we will release open source if anyone else wants to use it.
In the mean time if anyone wants to take part in the build please get in touch
Why dropbox makes life easier
We have been using DropBox for a while now and it has made life a lot easier. This is a great little tool to have allowing you to easily manage your files across multiple computers and is a must for an IT business especially one on the go like Sentia.
I would encourage everyone to check it out
Sentia helps Football Federation Australia for the 2022 world cup bid
We are very happy and proud to be apart of Australia’s world cup bid for the 2022 world cup. We have been working closely with Football Federation Australia (FFA) on developing something to help with Australia’s world cup bid.
I can’t say what we have worked on yet but in the coming days ill release more information. In the mean time be sure to support Australia in our world cup bid by submitting your support at http://www.australiabid.com.au/
Git branching after committing
Let’s say you make some changes on your master branch and commit a few times. So when you do a good old ‘git status’ you may have something like this
kongy@Deadpool:~/Development/Sentia/project (master) $ git status # On branch master # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 3 commits.
However you now realize you have taken the red pill. You are in the middle of a monster feature, and realise that you should have branched before. Luckily we can fix this using some git magic.
“Why, oh why, didn’t I take the blue pill?”
Let’s go back 3 commits by checking it out.
kongy@Deadpool:~/Development/Sentia/project (master) $ git checkout HEAD~3 Note: moving to 'HEAD~3' which isn't a local branch If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: git checkout -b <new_branch_name> HEAD is now at 978b493... Merge branch 'master' of github.com:Sentia/project
Nice! Now our repository is sitting pretty at 3 commits previously. And even better, git also tell us how to create a branch from this point. So let’s do that now push the newly created branch up to Github.
kongy@Deadpool:~/Development/Sentia/project ((no branch)) $ git checkout -b magic Switched to a new branch 'tiling' kongy@Deadpool:~/Development/Sentia/project (magic) $ git push origin magic Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) To git@github.com:Sentia/project.git * [new branch] magic -> magic
Now that we have created and saved the branch, lets grab all those changes in master, merge them into our branch, and push up to Github
kongy@Deadpool:~/Development/Sentia/project (magic) $ git merge master Updating 978b493..8a74bd3 Fast forward project.rb | 443 ++++++++++-----------------------
Cool, so our branch is now up to date. Now all we have to do is fix our master branch to become the same as the the GitHub origin master branch. I think there is probably an easier way to do this but I went and got the SHA commit key for the HEAD of origin to know where I wanted to go back to.
kongy@Deadpool:~/Development/Sentia/project (magic) $ git checkout master Switched to branch 'master' Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 3 commits. kongy@Deadpool:~/Development/Sentia/project (master) $ git reset --hard 978b493631a1443b1c84 HEAD is now at 978b493 Merge branch 'master' of github.com:Sentia/project
And you’re done. Now you can work in peace on your branch without disturbing your fellow developers. And then cry when you need to merge their changes into your branch.
Kazaa.com launches
Sentia is happy to announce that new kazaa.com service has gone live.
Its been a long time coming and a huge effort but we are proud of what has been achieved. Sentia has been working with the Kazaa team to develop this new service which offers legal music streaming and downloading.
So be sure to check it out Kazaa.com
Improving productivity with Alfred
First Bruce Wayne used his services now you can too. Alfread is a quicklaunch application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web.
We have been using the beta for a while now and its fantastic so be sure to check it out
