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Step 1

Does your osx terminal speak java 7? Start Terminal.app and try: java -version:

> java -version
java version "1.7.0_51"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)

Git Submodules basic explanation

Why submodules?

In Git you can add a submodule to a repository. This is basically a repository embedded in your main repository. This can be very useful. A couple of usecases of submodules:

Separate big codebases into multiple repositories.

Using Git version control for code projects

Creating a new code repo from a local working copy

with the Github for Mac app

From the repositories view in the app, drag the project folder to the bottom of the left sidebar.
Hit "Yes" when it asks if you want to create a local git repository
Go to "Changes" view (⌘2)
Select the files that you want to commit their current state to the repository. You can view the changes of the file by clicking on the double up arrow on the file name bar.

	<?php

	// (string) $message - message to be passed to Slack
	// (string) $room - room in which to write the message, too
	// (string) $icon - You can set up custom emoji icons to use with each message
	public static function slack($message, $room = "engineering", $icon = ":longbox:") {
	$room = ($room) ? $room : "engineering";
	$data = "payload=" . json_encode(array(
	"channel" => "#{$room}",
	"text" => $message,

	<?php
	/**
	* A helper file for Laravel 5, to provide autocomplete information to your IDE
	* Generated for Laravel 5.5.13 on 2017-09-28.
	*
	* @author Barry vd. Heuvel <[email protected]>
	* @see https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
	*/
	namespace {
	exit("This file should not be included, only analyzed by your IDE");