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Who Shall Control My Media? Part 4 - Backend Storage

So you’ve got a lot of videos, home movies, pictures, etc., that you want to have access to from all of your devices and get them on your big screen. Sounds simple, right? Its anything but. With the huge amount of competition and proprietary solutions out there it can be very confusing and extremely frustrating trying to figure out what the “best” solution is.

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My first few days with the OnePlus 3

I didn’t really want a new phone but my HTC One M9 was starting to really irritate me. Specifically the battery and power usage. It got to the point where I was having to charge it at least 3 times a day or I would run out of power. I was able to watch the battery tick down two percentage points just by having the phone on and looking at the home screen. Not doing anything or running any apps, just having the screen on. Between 6:30am and 11am my battery was down to 30%. Not acceptable. This has been going on for about a month now.

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Who Shall Control My Media? Part 3 - Media Players

Media players are a interesting topic.  Over the past couple of years, we’ve tried a variety of them.  The first one was back in 2007 and was the D-Link MediaLounge DSM-520 that got its media from a UPNP Media server.  It was designed to fit into a home entertainment unit, the typical ~19 inches wide and looked a lot like a DVD player or VCR.  At the time it was great.  There was no metadata, though, just a list of files. Select one and it usually played just fine.  It was a good product and nothing else even came close to it.

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Redmine API and Jetbrains Integration

I just thought I would put this out there in case anyone else had the same problem as I did as there is surprisingly little out there.

I just recently switched back over to using Redmine from Jira, this time via a Docker image.  Its nice and clean and avoids the various problems I was having with Apache and Passenger, which is partly what made me switch to Jira in the first place.  After getting things all setup with various plugins and themes to make it look nice, I went back to work in PhpStorm.  I then added a Task Server, tested the connection and all was fine.

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