Meet Rachel in the next instalment of employee spotlight chats
15 Oct 2021
Nowadays most of my side projects are managed with Github. It has more advantages and flexibility to manage file versions. I am following a different webhook system to automatically deploy my old PHP projects. Not sure about the standards, but the following solution is an alternative approach that may solve your deployment problem for every Github push.
A common topic of discussion among my close friends is where the bottlenecks are in our productivity and how we can execute more quickly. This is very different from what I see in my extended social circles, where people commonly say that velocity doesn't matter. In online discussions about this, I frequently see people go a step further and assign…
Our story of contributing to kube-state-metrics, a popular open source Kubernetes service.
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14 Oct 2021
Find out how to expand your small business
Find out how funds availability impacts on your business
We look at the top 5 payment processing challenges and how to overcome them.
We explore the benefits of payment links for merchants.
I learned of a neat result due to Kevin Ventullo that uses group actions to study the structure of hash functions for unordered sets and multisets. This piqued my interest because a while back a colleague asked me if I could think of any applications of “pure” group theory to practical computer programming that were not cryptographic in nature. He…
13 Oct 2021
Find out the difference between organic and inorganic growth.
Find out how to enhance the security of your blockchains
Harness the predictive power of Bayes Theorem
Find out what information is conveyed by Bank Identification Numbers
Find out how to minimise BACS indemnity claims
Introducing the hyper-productive serverless app platform with single second deployments
This article discusses the powerful design choice of Apache Kafka, “an open-source distributed event streaming platform,” and gives a sneak…
12 Oct 2021
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has become the new standard for securing connections to business-critical applications and other digital assets. An effective SASE implementation depends on performance, architecture, and support (among other factors) for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. In this post, IT Central Station members who use Cisco Umbrella and Cisco SD-WAN explain the importance […] The post The Role…
11 Oct 2021
Many companies break up their internal environments into different realms. A typical setup might look like: The prod realm is where production servers live. The dev or stage realm is a live testing environment, where code gets deployed before it goes into production, or long-running features are tested. The local realm is for code that's […]
We explain the definition of capital stocks and provide examples.
We look at capital gains and their tax implications for businesses.
Discover the big 4 accounting firms.
Find the most efficient way to transfer money to Europe.
Discover how to transfer money to the USA easily
10 Oct 2021
Once a week I have to deal with a zombie process or try to start a process that’s already running on its designated port. In most cases I use macOS’s Activity Monitor to kill the process, which is time-consuming. What if we could just kill a process on a given port from command line? Well, we can! To terminate a…
8 Oct 2021
Firefox 93 comes with lots of lovely updates including AVIF image format support, filling of XFA-based forms in its PDF viewer and protection against insecure downloads by blocking downloads relying on insecure connections. The post Lots to see in Firefox 93! appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
The fourth and final episode of the GSoC 2021 overview series, taking a look at projects dealing with physics in Blender.
Did you ever have to maintain multiple versions of a REST API because the change you needed to make would break existing clients? Does your native app have to call multiple REST endpoints to get all the data it needs? This blog post is about how we addressed these common problems using GraphQL and our transition to GraphQL Federation at…
Learn about the life of Claudia Jones and her achievements
Introduction It is always fun to reexplore previously discovered techniques or pick back on old research that was put on the wayside in hopes to maybe finding something new or different. Recently, I stood up an ESXi server at home and decided to take a quick peak at the VMware directory structure after installing the […]
7 Oct 2021
We are pleased to announce that the October 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This release introduces debugging support for Jupyter Notebooks, our new Python walkthrough and an improvement to the debugging experience for Python files and projects. The post Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2021 Release appeared first on Microsoft…
Last year, during lockdown, many discovered the importance of PDF forms when having to deal remotely with administrations and large organizations like banks. Firefox supported displaying PDF forms, but it didn’t support filling them: users had to print them, fill them by hand, and scan them back to digital form. We decided it was time to reinvest in the PDF…
Don’t you hate how you have to wrap checked exception throwing code in static initialisers? E.g. you cannot write this in Java: There’s an unhandled ClassNotFoundException, and you can’t catch / rethrow it simply. A static initialiser is needed: Yuck. Luckily, one of jOOλ’s lesser known features is the Sneaky class, which contains a bunch … Continue reading Use jOOλ’s…
Slack is an integral part of where work happens for teams across the world, and our work in the Core Development Engineering department supports engineers throughout Slack that develop, build, test, and release high-quality services to Slack’s customers. In this article, we share how teams at Slack evolved our internal tooling and made infrastructure bets.…
6 Oct 2021
In a world where data and AI are reshaping society, people currently have no tangible way to put their data to work for the causes they believe in. To address this, we built the Rally platform, a first-of-its-kind tool that enables you to contribute your data to specific studies and exercise consent at a granular level. Mozilla Rally puts you…
Multivariate testing is a great way to improve conversion rate.
We look at why quality of earnings is important and how to improve yours!
We look at 5 proven ways to win back lost customers
Find out how payment gateway routing can cut payment processing costs
Discover the solutions to seasonal cash flow problems.
An overview of our latest reporting figures, including next steps and actions
Philip Walton on the difficulties the webperf community faces when discussing web performance. Simple numbers don’t cut it. We need to provide context when discussing performance results. What concerns me about this practice is that it glosses over a lot of important nuance, and it perpetuates the idea that synthetic or lab-based tools (like Lighthouse, WebPageTest, and many others) are…
5 Oct 2021
Starting with Firefox 93, Firefox will monitor available system memory and, should it ever become so critically low that a crash is imminent, Firefox will respond by unloading memory-heavy but not actively used tabs. This feature is currently enabled on Windows and will be deployed later for macOS and Linux as well. The post Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 appeared…
Find out how a deferred payment works.
Find out how a payment scheme enables payment transactions
Find out how payment reference numbers work
We explain how Ripple works, and its differences to other cryptocurrencies.
How does credit card processing work?
The first in our four part series of employee spotlight chats
4 Oct 2021
Go behind the scenes and learn about our award-winning Customer Support team
For better or worse, form fields have been somewhat difficult to style with CSS. Form control display is dependent upon device, operating system, and browser, so you can imagine the difficulty in making styling easy. We have slowly been given some controls over form control display, as evidenced by accent-color! The accent-color CSS property allows us to change the accent…
3 Oct 2021
Unlock app engagement with personalized onboarding, smart notifications, gamification, and data-driven strategies for lasting user retention!
Explore practical techniques to enhance app engagement with real-world examples and insights on using analytics effectively
Explore how asynchronous database replication creates "wormholes" in data consistency and how to fix it with monotonic reads.
1 Oct 2021
Here are some of the different strategies you can use to write tests that read or write data from a database, and the benefits and drawbacks of each. I'm usually writing Go code, so the examples here are for Go, but the notes should generalize to any language that runs tests against Postgres, MySQL, or […]
The MDN Web Docs team is pleased to sponsor Write the Docs Prague 2021, which is being held remotely this year. We’re excited to join hundreds of documentarians to learn more about collaborating with writers, developers, and readers to make better documentation. We plan to take part in all that the conference has to offer, including the Writing Day, Job…
Discover the ecommerce fraud prevention best practices.
The financial ratios your business needs to understand
Hardware security modules protect payment information through cryptography.
Find out about host to host payment solutions
Calculate add to cart rates to optimise your website
30 Sept 2021
Learn how to start your own successful online store in the UK
We explore how your repayment terms can make or break your cash flow
We look at the best practices in implementing unified commerce.
Secure remote commerce offers your customers convenience and security.
Omnichannel commerce means creating a seamless customer experience.
Quote to cash takes you from customer interest to company revenue.
The UUID identifier has been used in programming since the days a baby-faced David Walsh became a professional software engineer. My first exposure to UUIDs was via a ColdFusion app I inherited and … the less we say about that the better. In any event, I was recently surprised to see that JavaScript has the ability to create UUIDs. Developers…
We identified a performance issue caused by the `ForkJoinPool` in our Java application based on the Akka framework. This is how we solved our issue.
If you just want the see the submissions, jump to the Weekly Code Challege website. But please bare in mind that the most of these were created in a couple of hours. This post is long overdue. Earlier this year, I came with an idea to organize a weekly code challenge in our Belgrade office. With the whole COVID situation…
29 Sept 2021
The third part of the GSoC 2021 roundup series, this time overviewing projects upgrading two of Blender's powerful modelling workflows: Curves and the Knife tool.
Hear from Chargebee, Cuckoo and GoCardless about how they’ve leveraged cloud-based payments to scale and grow their businesses.
GoCardless for Chargebee and G2
GoCardless for Chargebee
An alternate title for this post might be, "Twitter has a kernel team!?". At this point, I've heard that surprised exclamation enough that I've lost count of the number times that's been said to me (I'd guess that it's more than ten but less than a hundred). If we look at trendy companies that are within a couple factors of…
If you are only interested in the wiring diagram, jump directly to the wiring section. HyperX's Cloud II headphones come with a USB sound card, which looks like this: It is a convenient little dongle. I had it plugged in into the front USB port, and I bumped into it, bending the connector for ninety degrees. Naturally, it stopped working.…
28 Sept 2021
Our Moderation Dashboard is a pre-built, open-source, configurable GUI application that enables moderation capabilities for our customers’ chat apps.
Millennials and Gen Z Will Lead the Switch From Traditional Banks to Peer-to-Peer and Social Media App Payments
GoCardlessAmericans ditch traditional banks for peer-to-peer and social media payments
Collecting debt from a closed business can be a tricky process.
First, second and third party fraud each pose unique challenges.
Streamline the quote to cash process to ensure a healthy cash flow.
Budget variance analysis involves comparing estimates to actual returns.
We explore how you can make your ecommerce business unique
It’s hardly a stretch to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed most of the world online. The Internet has become an integral part of our daily lives – how we engage with each other, attend classes, do business. In this brave new Internet-enabled world, security solutions like remote browser isolation have become more important […] The post Protecting Users…
Join Serverless CEO Austen Collins for a webinar on building successful serverless development teams, covering reusable templates, testing strategies, and scaling best practices.
27 Sept 2021
This tutorial walks you through configuring and using the new open-source PubNub Moderation Dashboard to moderate a chat application.
More than 10 years ago, GitHub.com started out like many other web applications of that time—built on Ruby on Rails, with a single MySQL database to store most of its data. Over the years, this architecture went through many iterations to support GitHub’s growth and ever-evolving resiliency requirements. For example, we started storing data for some features (like statuses) in…
Find out what 4 businesses have achieved by investing in bank payments
26 Sept 2021
DDraceNetwork is an open source online game I’ve been running since 2013 with a community of volunteers. The game is available for free, I’m hosting servers for it in many countries around the world so that we have trusted official ranks. The servers are paid for by donations, which I stop collecting once the cost of the servers for the…
24 Sept 2021
Navigate the changing landscape of online shopping with headless commerce.
Appropriate small business payment terms ensure a healthy cash flow.
Find out how accounting works for a SaaS company
As a sole trader you need payment methods you can trust