A few of the tasty things I’ve tried around Sydney lately…

Cafe Sopra – 7 Danks St, Waterloo
Try the Trout Fishcake and Banoffee Pie. Yum.

Minh Hai – 615 George St, Haymarket
Vermicelli in chicken soup. The best I’ve had in Sydney EVER (aside from my Grandmother’s).

Pastizzi Cafe – 523 King St, Newtown
So far, I’ve tried the Spinach + Ricotta and the Cherry. Both great. I especially love the fact that they’re open after midnight!

Chinta Ria – 201 Sussex St, Sydney
Mingus Scallops – with chopped chilli shallots and curry powder. This dish doesn’t taste like you expect it will, given the menu description. Most pleasantly surprised :)

Sun Sun Chinese Kitchen – 104 The Crescent, Homebush West
Laksa. My favourite laksa in Sydney – order it with half prawn, half chicken.

Not long ago, I added colour (spelt the Australian way) to my black and white world. Back then, Git existed only in black and white on my black and white command line – and I figured that was sufficient enough. Until one day, a friend mentioned that I should configure color (spelt the American way) on my Git installation. Do it. Do it now.

Turn color on using one of the following commands:

serengetisunset:~$ git config ––global color.branch “auto”
serengetisunset:~$ git config ––global color.status “auto”
serengetisunset:~$ git config ––global color.diff “auto”

Or, to turn all color options on, use:

serengetisunset:~$ git config ––global color.ui “auto”

Next time you call git status, your command line should look vaguely like this:

serengetisunset:~/myprojectfolder$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
#   (use “git reset HEAD <file>…” to unstage)
#
#    new file:   app/controllers/home_controller.rb
#
# Untracked files:
#   (use “git add <file>…” to include in what will be committed)
#
#    app/helpers/home_helper.rb
#    test/functional/

Go color!

Yes, I know it sounds as simple as batty poo – but it took me so long this morning to find a set of instructions (via Google) that actually worked. I found the following on Piku’s Blog – the easy way to get Git going.

I downloaded Git 1.6.1.3 on Ubuntu 8.04. Piku’s instructions below (tweaked slightly).

1. Install GNU Wget if you don’t already have it
serengetisunset:~$ sudo apt-get install wget

2. Install Tk
serengetisunset:~$ sudo apt-get install tk

3. Install Git
serengetisunset:~$ wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.1.3.tar.gz
serengetisunset:~$ tar -zxvf git-1.6.1.3.tar.gz
serengetisunset:~$ cd git-1.6.1.3/
serengetisunset:~$ ./configure
serengetisunset:~$ make
serengetisunset:~$ sudo make install

Now to creating a new Git repository…

I’m moving here. I used to be on Blogger but there’s a compulsory header on every single page that I didn’t like so much. I think I like this better.