Each year we award a limited number of scholarships to students of exceptional research potential who are applying for a masters by research, PhD or professional doctorate. Because scholarship numbers are limited, we conduct one highly competitive scholarship selection round each year, which we call our annual scholarship round. To be considered for a scholarship, you must apply during the …

This quick tip will show you how to install Phalcon on a Homestead Improved instance, and will help you get a sample Phalcon app up and running. The version of Phalcon we’ll be using in this Quick Tip will be 2.0 – a pre-release. If you read this when Phalcon is already in a mature 2.x stage, let us know …

I saw a film recently on an airplane that made me cry. The film was a love story but the love part of the story didn’t make me cry. No, the scene that made me cry was about paper. The movie focuses on a Japanese publishing company’s small dictionary unit. There’s only four or five people in it. They are …

The popularity of Git speaks for itself. If you’re reading this article, hopefully you know that Git is the preferred source code management tool of many, many developers.  With the interest in Git growing when compared to other source code management systems, it’s one of the most attractive options from which to choose especially if you’re just getting into version control. via …

Every developer is different. This article is not an explanation of what is “best” or what you “should” do, it is simply a look at one developer’s tools. I work with PHP, HTML, MySQL, CSS, and JavaScript, so pretty par-for-the-course web development here. SitePoint recently published an article on a similar theme, minus the “in Windows” part, written by Shaumik …

We’ve all overheard conversations, walking down hip streets of the world’s tech capitals, discussions about the great ‘UX’ of a product, or the poor ‘UI’ of a website. Is it a secret language you will never be privy to? Are these people just using slang to look cool? Well, ok probably yes to the latter, but a determinate NO to …

Annoyed by huge code reviews? Blocked by something your co-worker is refactoring? Nervous about shipping? Having trouble giving feedback on a design draft because everything has changed? These are all symptoms that your releases are too big. via Staying sane with small incremental releases – Opbeat blog.

Toward the end of 2013 we faced two challenges with Soulmates: first, users had told us that the design looked a bit tired. Second, we had a mobile website which was lacking a lot of functionality, and was not very appealing visually. We decided to develop a responsive site and give Soulmates a makeover with a new branding at the …