Explore the best accounting software for artists and creatives.
21 Oct 2022
Are you using the best cloud bookkeeping software?
Make your product launch a success with a go-to-market strategy.
Which UK online donation platforms are right for you?
Discover the top recruiting software for small businesses on the market.
Find out how to choose the best project management tools.
How does data analytics software work for businesses?
Discover our list of the best inventory software solutions.
Read our roundup of the best cyber security software for small businesses.
Discover the 9 scaled agile framework principles and their meaning.
How can a web app payment system benefit your business?
Discover when and how to offer payment plans to customers.
Stay organised with this checklist for pop-up shops.
What do you need to track an international payment? Find out here.
Are ad hoc payments right for your business?
Should your business use a rolling reserve?
If you’re one of the 20 million people who use Postman , then you’ve worked with Postman Collections in one way or another. Collections are a great way to organize API requests, and they allow developers to easily create, share, and collaborate on different APIs. Collections can be used for almost any API workflow, whether it’s mocking, monitoring, testing, or…
JavaScript part is actually pretty easy, it is more about preparing the video file correctly. If you just want the code for converting videos using ffmpeg, jump to the last section. Otherwise, let's start scrolling down to see these two videos scrubbing: Every 5 framesEvery 100 frames Code used looks like this, it just updates currentTime based on window scroll.…
20 Oct 2022
Cater to customer preferences with online payment method statistics.
Discover how to encourage impulse buying at checkout.
Browse our tips for recession proofing a small business.
Learn how to devise the best business strategies in a recession.
Payment recovery can help improve your cash flow. Here’s how.
On Linux what can you turn into a file descriptor and then monitor with epoll?
Talking about improving sustainability of open source with some incredible open source community members. We highly recommend checking out their profiles to see the cool projects they’re working on!
19 Oct 2022
Working on a web extension is an interesting experience — you get to taste web while working with special extension APIs. One such API is storage — the web extension flavor of persistence. Let’s explore how you can use session and local storage within your Manifest V3 web extensions! Enabling Extension Storage The extension storage API isn’t available by default.…
How to carry out a cash flow budget with an illustrative example.
A choice of subscription billing solutions to help scale your business.
These 5 Xero construction apps will help users get the most from the platform.
We explore 5 essential Xero add-ons to help you track your company’s expenses.
We look at some Xero add-ons to help businesses better manage their cash flow.
18 Oct 2022
We look at 5 Xero add-ons to help you get the most out of the platform
What will the cash flow on your buy-to- let property look like?
Is your buy-to-let cash flow as good as it could be?
Which accounting software is best suited to your business?
Could open banking help to transform your business?
How does Rust return values, and does it make any difference to us programmers?
17 Oct 2022
A proposal for a public platform to host and manage Blender extensions.
Could your business use a break-even analysis chart?
Do you know how to interpret a balance sheet?
Learn about subscription accounting.
A simple guide to the four key benefits of ecommerce subscription models.
Learn the definition of invoice-to-pay
The previous release had ~100 commits, and this one has 149 since previous feature release!
We recently made updates to our SoundCloud iOS and Android apps to address key user experience (UX) fixes according to user feedback. We’ll…
16 Oct 2022
This is the first of what I expect to become a series of maybe a dozen blog posts about a hobby project I’ve started, called DigiMixer. Back in January 2021 I posted about controlling an XR-16 using Open Sound Control, and then later using an X-Touch Mini to control the XR-16 using the same underlying … Continue reading Introduction to…
14 Oct 2022
At the start of the year I took up a job as Head of Delivery for BBC Product Group as part of a new cross discipline leadership team led by our CPO Storm Fagan. It’s my job to help the BBC get the most out of modern digital agile ways of working. Bringing more product thinking to how we work…
13 Oct 2022
Learn about Xero invoice processing.
Learn about ecommerce discount strategy.
A step-by-step guide to setting up a recurring invoice in Xero
Learn the definition of a purchasing card for small businesses.
Learn the definition of procure to pay and how to implement it
The SoundCloud Android app recently got a significant makeover: a “new year, new me” type of thing. Our remarkable design team and…
12 Oct 2022
Mac apps built with Xcode 14.0 and 14.0.1 may contain concurrency bugs because the Swift 5.7 compiler can generate invalid code when targeting the macOS 12.3 SDK. If you distribute Mac apps, you should build them with Xcode 13.4.1 until Xcode 14.1 is released. Here’s what happened: Swift 5.7 implements SE-0338: Clarify the Execution of Non-Actor-Isolated Async Functions, which introduces…
The difference between what your business earns and what it costs to run
Learn about bookkeeping for real estate agents.
Learn the definition of real estate accounting software
What accounting software should farmers be using?
Everything small businesses need to know about ecommerce accounting
At Slack, the goal of the Mobile Developer Experience Team (DevXp) is to empower developers to ship code with confidence while enjoying a pleasant and productive engineering experience. We use metrics and surveys to measure productivity and developer experience, such as developer sentiment, CI stability, time to merge (TTM), and test failure rate. We have…
11 Oct 2022
Designing and engineering a messaging system that is used by 6.8 million students and half a million teachers in K-12 schools is no easy feat. While the typical threats against online systems from unauthorized and unauthenticated access to sensitive information remain, the school environment compounds privacy challenges as additional entities such as guardians, co-teachers, and […] The post Privacy and…
SwiftUI’s .task modifier inherits its actor context from the surrounding function. If you call .task inside a view’s body property, the async operation will run on the main actor because View.body is (semi-secretly) annotated with @MainActor. However, if you call .task from a helper property or function that isn’t @MainActor-annotated, the async operation will run in the cooperative thread pool.…
The ins and outs of full cost recovery for charities
Four key steps to effective, stress-free cash flow management.
Ecommerce fraud protection and prevention techniques
Transferring large sums of money can be a stressful experience
Why customer churn prediction is vital for your business’ long-term health.
Introducing native support for the popular display server protocol on Linux.
10 Oct 2022
If you're running Firefox on macOS you might have noticed that its responsiveness has improved significantly in version 103, especially if you've got a lot of tabs, or when your machine is busy running other applications at the same time. This improvement was achieved via a small change in how locking is implemented within Firefox's memory allocator. The post Improving…
Whenever I start to feel anxiety about a big change I’m making, I start writing more unit tests. I’ll write down my fear and then write a test that attacks, and eventually relaxes, that fear. There are two actions that I’ve been frequently using with test writing: skipping all but one test or single tests. Skip a Test Oftentimes I…
A simple guide to cash flow objectives, what they are and why they matter.
A simple guide to churn analytics and how it can help your business to succeed.
Everything you need to know about software capitalisation in simple terms.
A simple guide to 3-way matching in accounts payable and how it can help you.
9 Oct 2022
This is continues of my previous post about how to remove unused CSS and convert unclear JavaScript to protect your source code in the post-build process. If you are using CSS libraries like Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, etc.. and sometimes multiple frameworks. But your application components are not using all of the styles and it adds more weight to the application…
When is the linear scan Two Sum solution faster than a map? What if we use AVX-512 instructions?
6 Oct 2022
The October 2022 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This release includes .... Keep on reading to learn more! The post Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2022 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
Nowadays most applications are developed based on large CSS libraries like Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, etc.. and sometimes multiple frameworks. But your application components are not using all of the styles and it adds more weight to the application performance. This post will explain the Angular post-build process to remove unused CSS and hidden JavaScript files that enhance the application security…
5 Oct 2022
This Quick Start will cover how to run the PubNub Chat Moderation Dashboard locally to moderate chat messages and enforce community guidelines.
Throughout its history, a certain Japanese automaker has offered its customers stripped-back, homologation models ready for the track. This Subaru BRZ is a nod to those cars. In 2020 I wrote about the potential of the Subaru BRZ but its lack of a track-oriented trim level: If we want a truely lightweight track-oriented weapon like the 2002 WRX STI Spec-C…
4 Oct 2022
Contribute to Open Source with the Pythonistas at Microsoft – Hacktoberfest 2022
Microsoft Python EngineeringPythonistas at Microsoft are participating in Hacktoberfest 2022. We've gotten together to share with you tips and tricks for contributing, how we got into Open Source and the projects we have our eye on. Join us for our Twitch Stream October 10th, 2022 2PM PT on the Microsoft Developer Channel. The post Contribute to Open Source with the Pythonistas at…
3 Oct 2022
Internships are a great opportunity for companies to invest in great talent and train future engineers. It is important to prepare a good mentorship plan for the interns, so that they make the best use of their time and acquire experiences that will help make them full-time employees in the future. The first step is…
2 Oct 2022
One quality of life improvement any developer can make for themselves is ensuring different file types open in the app they’re most proficient in. If you know me, you know I prefer accomplishing as much as possible from the command line. The duti utility allows users to determine default file type from command line. The duti utility allows developers to…
Welcome to the 209th Carnival of Mathematics! 209 has a few distinctions, including being the smallest number with 6 representations as a sum of 3 positive squares: $$\begin{aligned}209 &= 1^2 + 8^2 + 12^2 \\\ &= 2^2 + 3^2 + 14^2 \\\ &= 2^2 + 6^2 + 13^2 \\\ &= 3^2 + 10^2 + 10^2 \\\ &= 4^2 + 7^2…
1 Oct 2022
This is a scan/OCR of Exhibits H and J from the Twitter v. Musk case, with some of the conversations de-interleaved and of course converted from a fuzzy scan to text to make for easier reading. I did this so that I could easily read this and, after reading it, I've found that most accountings of what was said are,…
29 Sept 2022
Here are the 4 core tenets of providing a remarkable customer service experience.
06:15 AM My two young kids come in waking me up, presenting me with iPads in the hopes of a quick game of Minecraft before school. I sometimes give in as it might mean a few more minutes sleep! 07:00 AM It’s time for the first of many oat flat whites — or oat flatties…
Learn about Datadog’s repeatable design elements that we’ve documented in our design style guide called DRUIDS.
Updated aerial images have been added to the Cloud and Data services this year, covering Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Slovakia, Estonia, and New Zealand.
28 Sept 2022
New users can start creating straight away. Lessons learned from deployment and improvements to our safety systems make wider availability possible.
27 Sept 2022
In 2023 and 2024 Blender will be fully compatible with the VFX Reference Platform specs.
One of the key value propositions of leveraging a Cisco SD-WAN architecture is the ability to implement a highly effective segmentation strategy. Implementing this allows organizations to separate devices into isolated networks such that there is no communication between each segment without a configuration expressly permitting that connection. This architecture allows organizations to reduce attack […] The post Extending SD-WAN…
26 Sept 2022
I’ve been a huge fan of the Brave web browser for years. They’re crypto-friendly, provide native ad-blocking features, and even provide Tor integration. Whenever I set up new systems, I automate Brave as the default browser. You can use the following shell command to set Brave as the default browser: Brave has been an excellent browser with a progressive outlook…
Not all docker images are available for ARM architecture (hopefully this will improve over time). Right now I’m working on a project where images for ARM are not available. Emulation works ok (but slow) most of the time. Lately, I stumbled upon an interesting performance/startup issue when running amd64-based containers using testcontainers in an integration test. Read more