Sometimes after update or clean install of PhpStom on fresh OS you could get it with bold and hard to read font. Changing font in Apperance section could help. But the best solution appears to be removing fonts-unfonts-core package.

sudo apt-get remove fonts-unfonts-core

it is used for Korean true type and if you do not use this language, it is safe to remove

Recently Canonical anounced new icon theme for Desktop and Mobile by Matthieu James (author of famous Faenza/Faience icons sets) that was hired by them. It looks really nice and consistent, but while we are still waiting for 14.04 with this new set, let's review some alernative icons sets for Ubuntu.

As I am very interested in Yii2 and spend some time to track project development process on GitHub (and try to participate a little), I decided to make small periodic digests of most interesting and valuable changes so far. Also I often catch useful hints in GitHub discussions and don't want to loose them, so will try to collect some.

• Finished work on Redis AR
• Started intensive work on ElasticSearch AR support
• • things left to do for ElasticSearch on GA stage
• Added basic docs for RBAC
• Sphinx search AR merged to master
• Bootstrap support needed in framework is finalised so all other Bootstrap features and code generators supposed to be made by each developer on it's own
• Plugins support for Swift Mailer, for example throttling plugin
• added Redis session storage

Animated view on lock opened via key and via picklock.

There are so much ordinary things in our life that are really brilliant in aesthetics of its simplicity and complexity simultaneously.

Here we go !

It took just a little more that 1 year from idea of having own blog to it's implementation :) Upcoming Yii2 inspired me to have a tight look on it ... and to do something - so this is what I got up to date.

What I have learned while making this blog

• Yii2 going to be much better that Yii1 and it is worth of switching on it
• Composer is cool, you can leave without... before you try it. After that - it is very hard without it
• Namespaces + Composer's autoloader in PHP are cool, that's a pleasure now to write code (with good IDE autocomplete)
• Markdown is cool, integrated it in this blog, very handy to write formatted posts now

What next :

• Automatic target "_blank" assiging to markdown parsed links
• Make page caching
• Redis cache storage
• Static pages functionality (veeery static)
• Tags manipulation/autocomplete functionality + widget (selectize.js) for blog admin
• Full-text search, experiment with PostgreSQL ts_vector/ts_query, in any case Sphinx is always here to help
• Nginx + PHP-FPM (I want to try how it goes)
• Multy-language separation on blog to have Russian and Deutsch (Es wird Spaß machen) sections
• Full dynamic and relevant OG tags generation

So that's pretty large plans, furthermore I want to make a copule Yii2 extensions/widgets. Really hope to bring something useful this year :)