steven_braham

I recently transitioned to freelancing and things are going relatively well. However, some of my clients keep sending short emails with simple questions and requests. For me, it is really hard to keep track of all these requests.

I was thinking of buying a ticket system where customers can just log in and raise support questions. That way I will have a nice one-way overview of all incoming questions. Furthermore, I'm looking for a kanban based task system to keep track of all work.

I was thinking of Jira, because it's relatively cheap and when I used to work for an employee, we also used Jira to keep track of tasks, so I'm quite comfortable and experienced with using it. Furthermore, I keep all git repos of client projects stored in BitBucket. Jira has good integration with Bitbucket and allows commits to auto close tickets and this makes it easier to keep track of all the work I did for a particular project. However, I don't really work with release cycles and tights sprints (yet? I'm still figuring out what workflows work best for me), so I think that Jira may be overkill.

Does anyone else use a formal ticket system for client questions? What other viable alternatives exist?

It seems to me that most people just buy crypto coins as an investment al la "quickly get rich", due to all the media hype and rising prices.

I was wondering who on this website actually buys them to use what they are meant for (secure online payments that don't rely on banks)?

I would like to use Twitter more. Most online guides about Twitter talk about curating content and basically aggregating articles.

I have done that for a while, but it gets tiresome quick to constantly look for articles that I want to share and it doesn't feel "genuine".

I was wondering what other developers Tweet? Opinions about Frameworks? Rants? Tips?

Just curious, because Chrome has it since 2012 and even Microsoft Edge supports the new date input.

Firefox however is the only major browser that does not support the date input type. The only reason that I load a date picker plugin nowadays is for Firefox compatibility (in my country, nearly nobody uses Opera or Safari).

PHP has been my main language for years, but I want to learn other languages to create web apps. The thing I like the most of PHP is how easy it is to deploy and develop an application. When deploying your app, you only have to update the files with a file transfer or a deployment script, because a PHP interpreter is always running.

Furthermore, all PHP frameworks like Yii, Laravel and CodeIgniter follow the same conventions for structuring a project.

I've tried to learn Django and like the syntax. However, I don't like the idea that a project contains multiple apps. I prefer to have large applications that do multiple things. Also, the whole template/view part is a bit confusing for me.

I'm curious what other platforms/languages are the most similar to the structure and deployment of Yii and Laravel projects.

The Java play framework seems like an interesting option.