Learn about the importance of PO numbers
4 Jun 2021
Learn all about this important financial metric
Here’s how to market your small business
Lead developer Clément Foucault shares his big plans for the future of EEVEE in the upcoming Blender releases.
Learn more about the difference between IRR and XIRR, right here.
Discover why a charge card can be hugely beneficial for your company.
One of the biggest advantages of using jOOQ is that you can change all of your complex application’s generated SQL with just a few lines of code. In this article, we’ll look into how to solve some common bind peeking issues just like that, without touching your application code, without the need to explain this … Continue reading How to…
Introducing a new open-source map library for both Android and iOS.
3 Jun 2021
I recently wrote a .bat script on Windows to mine Ethereum when I’m not using my gaming PC to frag noobs. I have a friend who also tries to mine cryptocurrencies but their machines have AMD processors; every once in a while, the processor and the mining executable start fighting and all mining comes to a halt. Having the mining…
Artwork courtesy of the Jenkins project. At Slack we manage a sophisticated Jenkins infrastructure to continuously build and test our mobile apps before release. We have hundreds of jobs running in a variety of different environments. One day something very odd happened — our Jenkins UI stopped working although the jobs continued to run. This…
2 Jun 2021
When should you use the current ratio formula and quick ratio formula?
Internal controls are essential to the integrity of your accounts
Discover the benefits of calculating opportunity cost
A sales ledger allows businesses to see a breakdown of sales
Subsistence expenses are an essential part of tax planning
The other day I was talking to a young developer working on a code base with tons of COM code, and I told him that even before… Read more "Kinda a big announcement"
A new package called runtime-env-cra allows you to handle environment variables in quick and easy way with create-react-apps. The post Handling runtime environment variables in create-react-apps appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
CSS-related techniques for optimizing Core Web Vitals.
1 Jun 2021
Understand how you can grow your business by offering preferred payment methods.
Firefox 89 has smartened up and brings with it a slimmed-down, slightly more minimalist interface. Along with this new look, we get some great styling features including a force-colours feature for media queries and better control over how fonts are displayed. The long-awaited top-level await keyword for JavaScript modules is now enabled, as well as the PerformanceEventTiming interface, which is…
In this second edition of the Cybersecurity Threat Spotlight, we’re examining the most important current threats including a backdoor threat, a remote access trojan (RAT), and a loader. Obfuscation, encryption, weaponization of normally benign files, and remote (frequently C2) execution continue to be primary techniques in ongoing use. Threat Name: GoldMax Threat Type: BackdoorActor: NOBELIUMhttps://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0118/Delivery […] The post Backdoors, RATs,…
31 May 2021
CPU cycles are cheaper than they have ever been, and cloud computing has never been more ubiquitous. All the major cloud providers offer generous free tiers, and services like GitHub Actions offer free compute resources to open-source repositories. So why do so many developers still build software on their laptops? Despite the embarrassment of riches of cheap or even free…
There are scores of developers who hate CSS; don’t get it, don’t want to get it, etc. Most of that is either down to inefficiencies within the language or misunderstanding of how to properly construct a website structure. I mostly love CSS but there are some parts of the language that I always hated, like having to repeat very similar…
Trying out titles because I have enough weeks that even I can’t tell them apart and I lived through them. Sports!!! We went to the Nations League ⚽️ semis and finals in Denver. If you don’t know this about me, I am a bit of a football (soccer) hooligan. Zach and I go to games, we sit in suporter sections,…
30 May 2021
Background As discussed in this previous post, Microsoft has provided valuable (explicit and implicit) insight into the inner workings of the functional components of the .NET ecosystem through online documentation and by open-sourcing .NET Core. .NET, in general, is a very powerful and capable development platform and runtime framework for building and running .NET managed […]
After more than 4 years working on GoReleaser, I’m launching a Pro version!
28 May 2021
Create happy, long-term customers
Find the best price for you and your customers
Learn about the leading cryptocurrency: bitcoin
Learn more about these pre-emptive invoices
Create prices to beat the competition
26 May 2021
Over the years, GitHub engineers have developed many ways to observe how our systems behave. We mostly make use of statsd for metrics, the syslog format for plain text logs and OpenTracing for request traces. While we have somewhat standardized what we emit, we tend to solve the same problems over and over in each new system we develop. And,…
This article explores how to convert values to strings in Rust using traits like Debug, Display and ToString. It explains the difference between user-facing and debug representations.
Blender is now fully compliant with the highest standards required by third parties to redistribute it.
Controlling macro and micro layout in a new era of responsive web design.
25 May 2021
PubNub's Dart SDK is now compatible with Flutter 2.0 and available as a beta release.
Find out how sales forecasting can help you run your business
Learn about contribution margin to fine-tune your forward planning
Find out how to calculate the cash ratio of your business
We explain cash flow management and why it’s so important for SMEs
We examine how alternative payment methods benefit your business and customers
…or is it to Erlang Pattern-Matching? Working as a mentor in the Education Working Group at The EEF , there are several tiny simple lessons that I’ve delivered over and over again. The one in this article is so common that I already gave it a name: The Robot Butt Rule. Hey, girl! 😏 The rule goes like this… To…
Chopped off 10 inches of my hair and I feel unstoppable. I always think I can deal with mermaid hair when the reality is I cba to brush it and it keeps getting longer and drier until I’m ready to take the kitchen scissors to it. I resisted that impulse and got a professional to cut it. Am I finally…
SoundCloud was founded 13 years ago, and throughout its history, the company and much of its tech stack has changed. We started with a…
24 May 2021
Get financially fluent with our guide to finance terms to know
Learn how to calculate the compound interest formula and what it means
AIDA funnel marketing can streamline your advertising efforts. Here’s how
Controlling which users are able to take which actions is no simple task. Building this into Slack has always been an interesting challenge. In large enterprise organizations, the standard types of roles we offered to customers were too broad, and delegating a generic admin role can grant someone with too much power — what if…
Microservices have gone through a complete hype cycle. From being hailed as the one true way to build systems, to a backlash where they are often considered too difficult and complex. In a way though, they are like most technology … Continue reading →
21 May 2021
Find out how deflation differs from inflation, and what it means for you
What is fiscal policy, and why is it important for businesses? Find out more
A business valuation helps you whether you’re buying, selling, or investing
Understanding the principles of macroeconomics is useful for any business
Learn more about the law of supply and demand in microeconomic theory
Blender 3.0 will ship with a new Pose Library system. This blog post will show how it works and compare it with the existing pose library.
Last week, Frederic Cambus wrote about building LLVM quickly on some very large machines, culminating in a 2m37s build on a 160-core ARM machine. I don’t have a giant ARM behemoth, but I have been working on a tool I call Llama, which lets you offload computational work – including C and C++ builds – onto Amazon Lambda. I decided…
20 May 2021
What is impact investing, and what types of investors does it attract?
Laissez-faire economics define the role of a government in the economy
Why do we make financial decisions? Behavioural economics looks for answers
When inflation coincides with a stagnant economy, it’s called stagflation
A business financial statement is a good indicator of its health. Here’s how
What are the big mistakes that send international expansion plans off the rails?
I have a few processes on my Windows gaming PC that are critical but sometimes get impacted over night as Windows tells my beloved machine to tone it down. My machine has the necessary cooling so I’m happy to let the processes do their work. There is a setting in the UI which allows you to prevent Windows from sleeping…
Leverage the highlights of the latest consumer payment preferences research.
19 May 2021
Roughly a year ago at Mozilla we started an effort to improve Firefox stability on Linux. This effort quickly became an example of good synergies between FOSS projects. The post Improving Firefox stability on Linux appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
We’ve provided Atom/RSS feeds for News and Events in our custom CMS at Notre Dame for well over a decade. However, if a visitor ended up on the url they were greeted with an unhelpful screen of XML. I decided to remedy this by appying some XSLT and styles to improve the user experience. However, even after reviewing several tutorials,…
18 May 2021
Blue chip companies are reputable businesses that can be trusted to succeed
What are financial instruments? Discover the different types and their uses
Recession can take a toll on any business. Find out how to survive and thrive
What makes mutual funds a savvy investment opportunity? Here’s what to know
Revolving credit facilities offer plenty of flexibility for businesses
Like any web browser, Firefox loads code from untrusted and potentially hostile websites and runs it on your computer. To protect you against new types of attacks from malicious sites and to meet the security principles of Mozilla, we set out to redesign Firefox on desktop. The post Introducing Firefox’s new Site Isolation Security Architecture appeared first on Mozilla Hacks…
Since releasing Blender 2.8x some mesh editing performance regressions haven't been addressed.
17 May 2021
Find out how the role of auditor can keep your company compliant
Find out about market value and how a price is placed on your business
Find out what work in progress means for your accounts
Find out what the stock exchange is and how trading works
Win more customers by meeting consumer demand with GoCardless.
Learn how consumers prefer to pay for their energy bills.
The world is shifting towards a more distributed workforce — and, with recent global events, the trend is only accelerating. From big global enterprises to smaller local businesses, and everything in between, people now work anywhere and everywhere, from any and every device. And as data bypasses centralized security, finding a cyber security package that […] The post Expanding SASE…
In our opinion, any Iterable<T> should offer a <R> collect(Collector<T, ?, R>) method to allow for transforming the the content to something else using standard JDK collectors, jOOλ collectors from org.jooq.lambda.Agg or your own. When using jOOQ, you don’t have to wait for the JDK to finally add these useful utilities to the Iterable API. … Continue reading Use ResultQuery.collect()…
normalcy resumes chez nous. I know this isn’t true everywhere, so if you’re in a place of lockdown: I am sorry for how annoying these updates will be. I was a good girl and bunkered down for over a year, and now I’ve got antibodies in spades and taking advantage of it. first trip of the after times: Monterey! I’d…
16 May 2021
There are many different types of ETFs. Find out how ETF trading works
Discover the year to date meaning and why it’s so important to know
Discover how the Black Scholes equation works in finance and trading
What does refinance mean for you? Find out more about refinance rates
Discover the advantages and disadvantages of investing in an index fund
13 May 2021
We’re excited to announce that Pylance, our fast and feature-rich language support for Python in Visual Studio Code, is now officially out of preview and has reached its first stable release. Keep reading to learn more! The post The Pylance language server has reached stable! appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
Automation frees Amakari to help clients make more while working less.
Cisco Umbrella is proud to announce the addition of our most recent global cloud data center, Spain! Our DC is located in Silicon Alley, not to be confused with Silicon Valley. We chose this location because it resides in the heart of connectivity and high-tech industry in Madrid. Improved cybersecurity services for our Spanish and […] The post Cisco Umbrella…
12 May 2021
Discover the 5 best apps for running your finances with ease
Learn about how mergers and acquisitions work
Here are 5 key ways to grow in your business in the e-commerce space
Learn about the gig economy and escaping traditional work
A business plan will help you establish realistic goals and processes
CRM software provides a data-driven platform to manage customer relationships.
To truly succeed as a business, you need to know the market.
Do you need to know what RDBMS Server version you’re on, and you only have SQL at your disposal? No problem. Most RDBMS provide you with that information in some form of meta data table. Here’s how: Missing this info for your own RDBMS? Feel free to comment.