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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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JetBrains IDEs, Haswell processors, Linux and FUTEX_WAIT

I thought I would put this here in case anyone else has been experiencing the same thing I have been. Start up a JetBrains product, any of them -- PhpStorm, WebStorm, CLion, DataGrip, or any of the others and it will start up, start indexing files, and then freeze. The only way to recover from it is to go to the command line and do a ‘kill -9’ on the process.

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Yii2 vs Symfony2 - First Impressions

So a few weeks ago I started in on a ground-up rewrite of an existing project. Its currently using a framework that based around my CWFC libraries. It works very well, but its starting to show its age. As more and more features got added to the project, things have gotten more and more cumbersome to maintain in a clean way. I started off by ripping out all of the backend code and migrating it to C++ (see my posts on Protocol Buffers here and here), leaving only the front-facing code left to work with.

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PHP Annotations are a Bad Idea

I’ve been writing code in PHP for a long time now, both for my own projects and as a freelancer.  I’ve seen well written code and truly horrific code and everything in between.  Much of the work I’ve done for my personal projects has been using a framework that I’ve built and …

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