ACH fraud detection, prevention and protection
10 Nov 2022
How does Request to Pay work and what are its benefits?
We’ve chosen the best accounting software for craft businesses.
Discover the benefits of the best accounting software for auto repair shops.
Discover the best web-based accounting software for a small business.
JustGiving's Head of Payments discusses the power of open banking
Serverless Console V2 brings real-time spans, requests and responses in Dev Mode, plus enhanced AWS Lambda observability powered by the Telemetry API.
It all started with the code challenge in our office. The weekly theme was waves, and I tried to think outside of the box. After dropping a few ideas, I remembered the waves people do on stadiumsAccording to Wikipedia these are known as Mexican or stadium waves. So I made waves using CSS only (code is available on CodePen): I…
9 Nov 2022
Introducing our new React Native Chat Components for cost-effective mobile chat development.
Save money with free billing software for small business.
Learn how to choose the best accounting software for property investors.
When it comes to a physical card vs virtual card, which offers more benefits?
What is the best accounting software for multiple businesses? Find out here.
How can the best accounting software for consultants help your business grow?
Accept bank payments with these third-party ACH processors.
How can you outsmart fraudulent payers?
Higher rates can bring short-term profits, but can you keep the money flowing?
Your payments function is set to get busier: do you have the resources to cope?
GitHub Sponsors expanded to over 30 new regions this year, Abigail Cabunoc Mayes chatted with three developers from India, Brazil and Egypt about building careers in open source.
SSH certificates allow system administrators to SSH into machines without having to manage authorized keys in the servers.
8 Nov 2022
First and foremost, thanks for visiting my little slice of the internet! I hope the following is both insightful and comedic as I plan to @inject well constructed jokes throughout this post. Introduction Hello! My name is Aleksei and at the time of writing this I’m a rising Senior perusing a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science at the Rochester…
So you're building serverless applications with Microsoft Azure Functions, but you need to persist data to a database. What do you do about controlling the number of concurrent connections to your dat... The post Getting Started with MongoDB Atlas and Azure Functions using Node.js appeared first on Microsoft.
Which payment gateway is right for you? View this payment gateway comparison.
What’s a convenience fee and is it something you should be charging?
The best international transfer options besides Payoneer
What can a smart routing payment gateway do for your business?
Find out when and how to use a cascade payment system.
We look at the benefits of bulk payment processing for your business.
7 Nov 2022
PubNub CEO, Todd Greene, spoke at Web Summit 2022 to discuss how technology is bridging the gap between physical and virtual experiences.
How can you improve the success rate of your customer’s transactions?
Authors: Rojan Rijal , Tinder Security Labs | Johnny Nipper, Product Security Manager | Tanner Emek, Engineering Manager Recently, Tinder Security Labs gave a talk at Recon Village @ Defcon 30 called “Scanning your way into internal systems via URLScan.” We went over examples of sensitive links indexed by URLScan that could be leveraged to gain access into corporate systems.…
How are B2B payment processing solutions different to B2C solutions?
How you can give yourself the best chance for success with B2B ecommerce
Learn about the benefits of ecommerce for small businesses.
Learn how start a small ecommerce business
Discover the benefits of using a multiple channel payment provider.
6 Nov 2022
Find out the best accounting software for the hospitality industry.
What are some good options for accepting online payments?
We look at how to optimise your invoice process to facilitate cash flow.
4 Nov 2022
So you want to build a REST API, but you don't want to worry about the management burden when it comes to scaling it to meet the demand of your users. Or maybe you know your API will experience more b... The post Build a Totally Serverless REST API with MongoDB Atlas appeared first on MongoDB.
Discover the definition and benefits of smart invoicing software.
Learn about cost plus pricing
Learn about subscription business model pros and cons.
Is your SaaS business retaining enough customers?
Explore the benefits of digital payments for your business
What could a modern payments system do for your business?
What is a credit card pre- authorisation and how does it protect your business?
Could a fund flow analysis help you to plan for the future of your business?
The standard SQL WITH clause has been tremendously helpful in structuring SQL queries. Instead of nesting everything in unreadable derived tables like this: People have started moving the logic up front, just like in any other programming language, where we declare things first, lexically, then use them: Both queries will produce the 5 actors with … Continue reading LATERAL is…
3 Nov 2022
The November 2022 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This release includes automatic installation of the isort extension, auto imports turned off by default with Pylance, "just my code" cell debugging in Jupyter and more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – November 2022 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python…
How GitHub converts previously encrypted and unencrypted columns to ActiveRecord encrypted columns
GitHubBackground In the first post in this series, we detailed how we designed our easy‐to‐use column encryption paved path. We found during the rollout that the bulk of time and effort was spent in robustly supporting the reading and upgrading of previous encryption formats/plaintext and key rotation. In this post, we’ll explain the design decisions we made in our migration…
Starting today, developers can begin building apps with the DALL·E API.
2 Nov 2022
This document describes the vision for a new way to create and share content with Blender through Blender Apps.
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MapTiler Server 4.2 has many improvements, giving you API controls, Static maps, WMS services and High DPI maps.
1 Nov 2022
My name is Avery Dunn and I am a rising master’s student at Washington University in St. Louis studying computer science. For the past 12 weeks, I have been a software engineering intern on the API & Platform pod of the Foundation team. I am an active Strava user and have been for approximately 3 years with my favorite activity…
A simple guide to what you need to know about churn in ecommerce
What you need to know about the top 5 ecommerce customer retention strategies.
As a software engineer that lives too much of his life on a computer, I like keeping my machine as clean as possible. I don’t keep rogue downloaded files and removes apps when I don’t need them. Part of keeping a clean, performant system is removing empty directories. To identify empty directories, I use the following command: To remove empty…
What’s the one thing that most security professionals can agree on? It’s that good security is about so much more than great point products. Why? Because best of breed solutions are limited in what they can do for your overall security posture. What matters is not only how effective each security solution is at defending […] The post Introducing the…
31 Oct 2022
Four development missteps to avoid in order to increase your chances of building a high-performing, successful app that engages users.
The MDN Web Docs team recently undertook a project to revamp and reorganize the “Contribution Docs”. These are all the pages on MDN that describe what's what – the templates and page structures, how to perform a task on MDN, how to contribute to MDN, and the community guidelines to follow while contributing to this massive open source project. The…
Scaling fast and deciding whether to buy or to build your payments and billing solution in-house? In this webinar we unpack the financial impact of building and managing your payment and billing solution in-house.
One of the ideological sticking points of the first JavaScript framework was was extending prototypes vs. wrapping functions. Frameworks like MooTools and Prototype extended prototypes while jQuery and other smaller frameworks did not. Each had their benefits, but ultimately all these years later I still believe that the ability to extend native prototypes is a massive feature of JavaScript. Let’s…
30 Oct 2022
Check how to boost engagement and simplify communication with 💬 Chat API, offering robust real-time messaging without the development complexity
Pocketbase is an open-source application and alternative to Google Firebase. This is offering realtime database, authentication(including social), and file storage for your next web and mobile application. This article is about how to host the Pocketbase application server which usually runs at 8090 port with your existing application server. If you are using Linux and Apache based server, the following…
This morning (October 30th 2022), the clocks went back in the UK – the time that would have been 2am fell back to 1am. This is just the regular “fall back” transition – there’s nothing special about it. As it happens, I’d driven my electric car for quite a long journey yesterday, so I had … Continue reading Handling times…
29 Oct 2022
For a recent project, I needed all the NVD CVE and EPSS data in Elasticsearch and couldn’t find an easy way to do it, so I built CVElk. CVElk quickly builds a local Elastic Stack using docker compose with the help of a simple shell and python script. Philipp Krenn from Elastic also contributed an updated dashboard to the project…
28 Oct 2022
This post discusses the algorithm behind Personal Heatmap, one of Strava’s most acclaimed subscriber features. Product Overview The Personal Heatmap feature has been around in some form since 2015, but we gave it a major overhaul in 2020. For those unfamiliar, the heatmap is an aggregated view of an athlete’s GPS-enabled activities on Strava. Activity data is rendered onto a…
Real-time Communication Platforms address the new delivery requirements of real time business models that are changing the face of business globally
27 Oct 2022
One of the things I like to do on this blog is write about new research that has a practical angle. Most of the time (I swear) this involves writing about other folks’ research: it’s not that often that I write about work that comes out of my own lab. Today I’m going make an … Continue reading One-Time Programs…
I’ve been writing a bunch of jest tests recently for libraries that use the underlying window.crypto methods like getRandomValues() and window.crypto.subtle key management methods. One problem I run into is that the window.crypto object isn’t available, so I need to shim it. To use the window.crypto methods, you will need Node 15+. You can set the window.crypto by importing the…
26 Oct 2022
Python 3.11 brings the specialized adaptive interpreter, the starting point of a large plan to make Python much faster. At Microsoft, we have a full-time team dedicated to this project. The post A Team at Microsoft is Helping Make Python Faster appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
This blog post is the first part in a two‐part series on how GitHub is using ActiveRecord::Encryption. You may know that GitHub encrypts your source code at rest, but you may not have known that we also encrypt sensitive database columns in our Ruby on Rails monolith. We do this to provide an additional layer of defense in depth to…
The United States is one of the last bodies that refuses to implement the Celsius temperature standard. Why? Because we’re arrogant and feel like we don’t need to change. With that said, if you code for users outside the US, it’s important to provide localized weather data to users. Let’s took at how you can convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius.…
25 Oct 2022
About Me: Hey there! My name is Ryan, and I come from an unconventional background. I am not like most interns from the group in 2022. I’ve dropped out of college 3 times, worked in different fields for about 10 years, then transitioned into a bootcamp. Now working with Strava, they have set the expectation of what it should be…
Tackle failure rates and poor visibility with one-off instant payments
Creating a thumbnail to represent a video is a frequent task when presenting media on a website. I previously created a shell script to create a preview video from a larger video, much like many adult sites provide. Let’s view how we can create a preview thumbnail from a video! Developers can use `ffmpeg, an incredible open source media utility,…
At Slack, we use Terraform for managing our Infrastructure, which runs on AWS, DigitalOcean, NS1, and GCP. Even though most of our infrastructure is running on AWS, we have chosen to use Terraform as opposed to using an AWS-native service such as CloudFormation so that we can use a single tool across all of our…
The Network Resiliency Strategy for the Umbrella Infrastructure is Key to Our Business Growth and World-Class Innovation
OpenDNSAt Umbrella, we choose to expect the unexpected and continue to improve from the lessons learned. We plan for failures as an unavoidable natural occurrence. This is critical in allowing us to build a resilient infrastructure to guarantee the highest uptime and user experience for our customers. To achieve such brilliant goals, we invest time […] The post The Network…
In an earlier blog post, we talked about how we changed the interview process during remote working as a way of improving our recruiting…
24 Oct 2022
Learn how PubNub can power online features in your Unity Game for in-game chat, live-leaderboard updates, and notifications.
Stop boring your audience with wordy presentation decks — start using these 15 alternatives today
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JavaScript and CSS allow users to detect the user theme preference with CSS’ prefers-color-scheme media query. It’s standard these days to use that preference to show the dark or light theme on a given website. But what if the user changes their preference while using your app? To detect a system theme preference change using JavaScript, you need to combine…
This case study shows how we reformed a scale-up's dev processes after uncovering severe discrepancies between the official and real way of getting things done. The post Do your engineers do what you think they do? appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
Always be a step ahead of fraud with GoCardless Protect+
Hear payment experts from GoCardless and Plum as we deep dive into payment fraud to provide you with a better understanding of the different types of fraud and how they are already impacting your business.
MapTiler Desktop is now MapTiler Engine! Faster processing, optimized tiles, affordable pricing and many more improvements.
23 Oct 2022
21 Oct 2022
If you're a developer, worrying about your database is not necessarily something you want to do. You likely don't want to spend your time provisioning or sizing clusters as the demand of your applicat... The post Developing Your Applications More Efficiently with MongoDB Atlas Serverless Instances appeared first on MongoDB.
Using jOOQ’s code generator to call stored procedures is a popular reason to use jOOQ. For example, when you have a procedure like the following Oracle PL/SQL procedure: jOOQ will generate code for you to call very simply, like this: This will execute the following, taking care of binding all IN and OUT parameters for … Continue reading Calling Procedures…