Creating a module for a PHP backend application might be easier than you think. This step-by-step guide shows how to do it. — This article presents easy-to-follow steps to create a module for PHP apps. The module will be a collection of services that can be added to any backend app project built on the Symfony framework. We’ll keep the framework dependencies to a minimum and ensure that the services work without it.

We came up with the idea of creating our own website builder in the same way that most productivity software tools are created. We were unimpressed by the available options and thought we could do it better. That motivation was enough even though, in retrospect, it might have been a…

There seems to be no end to excellent approaches for building web-based applications. Everyone claims that their framework is best, and they are probably right under some combination of conditions. The task of studying when an approach is the best option is almost always left to the community. …

Funding application take researchers away from their work, and only a few lucky ones can say that it was worth it. There is a better way. Let’s imagine for a second that the following was the way that Canadian researchers applied for funding. A researcher writes a funding application, has…

Five years ago we had the idea of interconnecting all Canadian universities, research centres, associations and funding agencies using software, which led us to build UNIWeb. From the beginning, we understood that each connection had to advance the goals of both the individual institutions and their members. …

The research community has justly criticized the Canadian Common CV (CCV) for its cumbersome interface, unreliable up times, slowness, and other shortcomings [1, 2, 3]. These problems are of course solvable, but can also become even worse if we don’t have a proper understanding of how we got here. …