We are pleased to announce that the November 2020 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we’re introducing the Jupyter extension, which the Python extension now takes a dependency on. The post Python in Visual Studio Code – November 2020 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
12 Nov 2020
Cisco is excited to announce that Cisco Secure won three CRN’s Tech Innovator Awards in key categories including cloud security, SASE, and threat intelligence/incident response. The ability to empower solution providers with truly differentiated offerings is the crowning achievement of the CRN Tech Innovator winners and finalists for 2020. Cisco Umbrella won for best cloud […] The post Cisco Umbrella…
Discover when the equity method of accounting applies and how it works
Find out more about econometrics analysis and how it’s used
COVID means we can't celebrate like normal, but here's what it's all about.
How much does it cost to collect $5,000 from a US customer? We compare options.
11 Nov 2020
We’re excited to announce that we’re releasing the new Jupyter extension for Visual Studio Code today! The Jupyter extension is the latest step in our journey to bring the power of Jupyter Notebook into VS Code for a variety of languages and scenarios. Jupyter Notebook enables creating and sharing documents that contain live code, equations, […] The post Introducing the…
How does crowdfunding work? Find out with GoCardless.
Explore the uses of company SIC codes with our definitive guide.
Navigate the complex world of angel financing for entrepreneurs, right here
Find out how ad valorem taxes are calculated and when they apply to you
Unpresented cheques are cheques that have not yet been paid out by the bank
10 Nov 2020
Vertical analysis is a way of analysing your financial statements
On October 28, 2020, a joint advisory was issued from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about an imminent threat of cyberattack on US hospitals and healthcare providers. The agencies claimed to have “credible information of an […] The post Healthcare industry…
Management accounting is all about using accounting data to boost efficiency
9 Nov 2020
Review the importance of the acid test ratio for small businesses and start-ups
Small business cash flow projection templates help to predict cash flow
MVP stands for minimum viable product, or the earliest version of your product
Proof of concept helps demonstrate the potential of your product
This initial milestone will focus on the features that can be used by the Blender Studio.
Business budget templates can help you keep track of your finances
Statutory books are required under the provisions of the Companies Act 2006
Comparative advantage is attributed to David Ricardo. Learn more.
Explore the effects of downsizing with GoCardless, right here
There may be relief available to reduce your corporation tax loss
Discover what earnings per share means and how to calculate it
Keep your business books balanced using the accounting equation
Find out what an accounting period is and how it’s used in business
Discover our top 5 start-up business tools and what makes them so great
8 Nov 2020
Teeming and lading is a type of accounting fraud
A unit trust is a form of open-ended group investment
A credit sale is essentially a form of buy-now, pay-later sale
A statutory audit is a review of an organisation's financial records
A lump-sum payment is a portion of your pension that you can take upfront
A letter of credit is a guarantee of payment from a bank
Discover the meaning of provisions in accounting and how it’s used
Find out how debt measures up with the leverage ratio
What is a negotiable instrument, and how is it used? Find out here
Are you using key performance indicators (KPIs) effectively?
Here's what you need to know about indexation for companies
Learn Jaccard Similarity and MinHash, a technique to efficiently estimate set similarity at scale for tasks like near-duplicate detection.
7 Nov 2020
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6 Nov 2020
Find out what insurable interest is and how it works in real life
5 Nov 2020
The Blender project has existed for more than 20 years. During this time, its codebase has grown organically, with a […]
3 Nov 2020
Counterparty risk tells you if a party is likely to default on their obligations
Make smarter investments using a fundamental analysis strategy
Find out what the benefits of financial intermediaries are in business
Job costing can help businesses keep on track with a budget. Here’s how
Methods like Promise.all, Promise.allSettled, Promise.race, and the rest are really excellent for managing multiple Promises, allowing for our apps to embrace async and performance. There are times, however, that limiting the number of concurrent operations may be useful, like rate limiting or simply not wanting to put a server under massive stress. Enter an simple utility for limiting Promise concurrency:…
Discover how a zero-based budget could boost business efficiency
Find out how time value of money can help you make better investments
Learn why intrinsic value is so important for investors
2 Nov 2020
Exploring the WDAC Microsoft Recommended Block Rules (Part II): Wfc.exe, Fsi.exe, and FsiAnyCpu.exe
BohopsIntroduction In Part One, I blogged about VisualUiaVerifyNative.exe, a LOLBIN that could be used to bypass Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC)/Device Guard. The technique used for circumventing WDAC was originally discovered by Lee Christensen, however, it was not previously disclosed like a handful of others on the Microsoft Recommended Block Rules list. If you are […]
Glommio (pronounced glom-io or |glomjəʊ|) is a cooperative thread-per-core crate for Rust & Linux based on io_uring. It allows you to write asynchronous code that takes advantage of rust async/await, but it doesn’t use helper threads anywhere.
1 Nov 2020
Learn how to optimally smooth time series data using kurtosis to highlight anomalies. Prioritize user attention with this smoothing technique.
30 Oct 2020
And why we're celebrating International Men's Day.
Christina talks about the issues around mental health for the black community.
Cost-volume-profit analysis helps you make sure you’re making money
Are you taking all your deductions? Find out more about capital allowances
Are balloon payments a good option for your business? Find out more
Reduce volatility in profit and loss statements using hedge accounting methods
29 Oct 2020
Earlier this week I was looking for an old photo, and while browsing I came across a photo I took of my whiteboard in my office at Microsoft in 2004. Or rather, it was two photos; I’ve crudely stitched them … Continue reading →
The time has come for Kuma — the platform that powers MDN Web Docs — to evolve. For quite some time now, the MDN developer team has been planning a radical platform change, and we are ready to start sharing the details of it. The question on your lips might be “What does a Kuma evolve into? A KumaMaMa?” The…
Understand everything you need to know about floating charges and fixed charges
Welcome to the first deep dive of the Building GitHub blog series, providing a look at how teams across the GitHub engineering organization identify and address opportunities to improve our internal development tooling and infrastructure. At GitHub, we use the Four Key Metrics of high performing software development to help frame our engineering fundamentals effort. As we measured Lead Time…
Here at GitHub, we pride ourselves on providing a first-class developer experience to you, our customers. We’re developers, too, and we love that the features that we build for GitHub.com make your day easier — and make ours easier, too. We also know that the more we invest in the infrastructure and tooling that powers GitHub, the faster we can…
Explore the features of debt securities with GoCardless
Understand when to buy a call option and when to sell a put option
28 Oct 2020
The October 2020 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This was a short release where we addressed 14 issues, and it includes debugpy 1.0! Keep on reading to learn more. The post Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2020 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
Earlier this month, David’s heartfelt posting about leaving Mozilla made the front page of Hacker News. Traffic increased by 800% to his already-busy website, which slowed and eventually failed under the pressure. Request Metrics monitors performance and uptime for David’s blog, and our metrics tell an interesting story. Here’s what happened, why, and what you can do to prepare your…
AV-TEST places Cisco Umbrella first in secure web gateway to protect remote workers With so many employees working remotely during the global pandemic, businesses are having an even harder time keeping their users, devices, networks, applications and data safe. According to Ponemon Institute, organizations who believed they were effective at mitigating risks, vulnerabilities and attacks […] The post AV-TEST places…
Ionic is a great component framework that can build both iOS and Android apps from the same source code using Capacitor. In this video I have explained how to generate a signed Android release APK version using Ionic application and publishing on Google play store. For this process you need a Google play console subscription that costs $25 for life…
27 Oct 2020
UK customers can now benefit from easy to set-up and manage monthly payments.
Learn the basics of Flutter: CLI, widgets, alignment, lists, themes, navigation and networking. The post Flutter Crash Course for JavaScript Developers appeared first on RisingStack Engineering.
26 Oct 2020
Find out why a company's book value is so significant
Find out how the weighted average cost method works and how to use it
Find the best Making Tax Digital compatible software
Find out how to calculate marginal revenue and why it’s so important
Learn why the gearing ratio metric matters to investors
Forensic accounting helps sniff out financial crime
Find out how a fixed interest rate can help make your outgoings more predictable
Believe it or not, there are advantages to having zero balance
Make sure your new launch is a success with a go-to-market strategy
A suspense account is essential for holding unknown amounts
What are sinking funds? Find out everything you need to know, right here
Management accounting is something every business needs
Learn how to take your finances seriously with double-entry bookkeeping
Tax payments made late or too early count as deferred tax on the balance sheet.
There are numerous reasons to want to know which files have been added or modified in a git repository, one of which is your text editor highlighting those files. Another use case is running tasks against only files which are presently changed, like lint or other validation routines. So how can we identify files which are added or changed? Like…
23 Oct 2020
Focus your resources by performing a customer segmentation analysis.
An internal audit could keep your business on track. Here’s how
Learn more about the pros and cons of technical debt
Reserves are profits that have been set aside for a specific purpose
Operating leverage reveals what percentage of your total costs are fixed
See our consolidated financial statement definition
Aging reports for accounts receivable can help improve your financial health