Jamie Bennett Speaks

Look what turned up in the post today.

I have big plans for this little beauty. First I need to play around with it but on my list of things to do in the not too distant future is port Entertainer to the beagle board with the intentions of running it on the new Maemo 5 platform.

For those people that don’t already know, Entertainer is a fully function albeit sparse at the moment, media center like application using Python and Clutter. Its been built entirely from scratch and boasts good functionality already with much more planned for the future.

I want to be fully up to speed by the time the Maemo 5 SDK is released (hopefully in November) and the nearest thing to getting the actual hardware is the beagle board so I figure why not port one of my other projects and kill two birds with one stone.

For a little reminder of what Entertainer looks like.

If you are interested in helping out with the project the get in contact. You can reach me through the contact link at the top of the page.

git is my revision control system of choice. It is immensely powerful and fast but it does have a downside, it’s pretty hard for new users to learn.

Recently I was asked, “what’s the best way to learn git”. I thought a little while, scratched my head some, and said I’d get back to them.

Anyway, I thought the solution I came up with could benefit others so here it is.

There is a wealth of documentation on the Internet, what git is, some beginner tutorials, even lists of useful tips so what is the best way to learn git? Well here is what I think you should do.

Must Reads

and finally, if your not sick of reading by now, there are lots more links on the git documentation page.

Of course, none of the above information is useful unless you actually use the tool so fire up your terminal and play around.

~/.gitconfig

One other thing that may be useful is my ~/.gitconfig file. I’ve simplified it somewhat but the useful parts are below.

~/.gitconfig is the configuration file for git where you can customize git to your hearts content. For a list of available options have a look at the man page for gitconfig or view it online here.


[user]
name = Jamie Bennett
email = jamie@linuxuk.org
[alias]
ci = commit -a
co = checkout
st = status -a
di = diff
br = branch
cl = clone
me = merge
pa = log -p
[apply]
whitespace = strip
[diff]
color = auto
rename = copy
[pager]
color = true
[status]
color = auto


Hope that helps.

Another day, another video; this time its Nokia’s Head of Marketing Peter Schneider. In this talk, Peter details what we can expect from Fremantle, the next iteration of the Maemo platform.

“What can we get out of Fremantle” – Peter Schneider – Nokia from Jamie Bennett on Vimeo