Find out what to look for in a virtual terminal for payments.
1 Apr 2022
Read more on the differences between expense and expenditure on GoCardless.
Most UK companies will use the UK GAAP FRS 102 accounting standard
Discover how to increase net profit margin in business.
Where does your business stack up? Find out here.
It’s April Cools! We’re taking back April Fools. When I was younger I had a strange relationship with alcohol, not because of any sort of trauma, but because I found it decidedly boring and disgusting to the taste. I didn’t drink in high school, didn’t enjoy parties in college, and didn’t care for tailgating or other sports-based events where drinking…
Software engineering, knowledge work, or most broadly any type of white collar labor is, primarily, the production of our own psychology. Our mental capacity is our means of production. We embody the values of our work. Our identity is tightly bound up with our careers, knowledge, skills, methods, company, and our industry—we are our work. Having our identities bound to…
31 Mar 2022
ShreyTheCray interviews Gareth McCumskey as he walks through the purpose, use cases, and process of getting started with the Serverless framework
Data lake table formats
30 Mar 2022
The April 2022 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we’re introducing a Pylint extension, a simpler way to create empty Python and Jupyter Notebook files, fixes for running and debugging files with conda environment and moving the interpreter display in the status bar to the right. The post Python in Visual…
In Firefox 98, we’re shipping a new version of the existing Performance panel. This panel is now based on the Firefox profiler tool that can be used to capture a performance profile for a web page, inspect visualized performance data and analyze it to identify slow areas. The post Performance Tool in Firefox DevTools Reloaded appeared first on Mozilla Hacks…
Discover the objectives of financial forecasting.
Should I offer payment in local currency? Find out here.
Discover cross-border selling and the common mistakes to avoid.
Discover the importance of 2FA and MFA when taking payments.
CVV codes and what they mean
BBC Online — A year with serverless Its been a little over a year since I published my last two blog posts, in which I outlined the process we went through to choose the technology for BBC online and the steps we took to optimise serverless for our use. Recently my colleague Graeme has published a blog post on the…
Choosing from various pre-defined map styles and customizing maps is much easier with the new Cloud UX and the refreshed map designer tool.
Whatever you’re into, get into employee experience
Using attribute-based access control to solve role explosion (part 1)
Using attribute-based access control to solve role explosion (part 2)
29 Mar 2022
The pursuit of an autonomic scale and efficiency system for Microsoft 365: Making it as easy as breathing
Engineering at MicrosoftThrough automated profiling and data collection of performance behavior, Microsoft’s M365 Core team can derive the context with which to inform the engineer about the impact of their code, as they write it. Randy Lehner likens it to the autonomic nervous system in this post on their Cloud Profiling and Reporting Pipeline. The post The pursuit of an autonomic scale…
What you need to know to build and run a profitable business.
Discover how Apple Pay works for business.
Discover how Google Pay works for business.
We explore the advantages and disadvantages of contactless payments.
Everything you need to know to choose a credit card machine for your business.
This has been a busy month for cyber attackers, and the Cisco Umbrella team – in conjunction with Cisco Talos – has observed several new threats for users to be aware of. In this month’s edition of the Cybersecurity Threat Spotlight, we discuss a wiper making its way through Ukraine, a dropper targeting India and […] The post HermeticWiper, SDUser,…
Introducing our new “Full Stack” experience, making Serverless Cloud the most productive full-stack developer platform you'll ever use.
The changing economics of open source
Macro trends in the tech industry | March 2022
28 Mar 2022
Hear industry leaders from Ericsson, Qualcomm, AWS, and AT&T, discuss some of the key ways that 5G will be a game-changer for developers.
A profitability KPI provides a key way to measure business success.
If a chargeback seems illegitimate it should always be fought, when possible
Should your business be accepting as many Payment options as possible?
Discover the best mobile payment app for small business.
There are several electronic payment methods classed as cash or credit payment
We released the fifth edition of our book Advanced Swift a few days ago. You can buy the ebook on the objc.io site. The hardcover print edition is printed and sold by Amazon (amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de). Highlights of the new edition: Fully updated for Swift 5.6 A new Concurrency chapter covering async/await, structured concurrency, and actors New content on property…
For as long as developers have written CSS code, we’ve been desperate to have a method to allow styling a parent element based child characteristics. That’s not been possible until now. CSS has introduced the :has pseudo-class which allows styling a parent based on a relative CSS selector! Let’s have a look at a few use cases for :has in…
In the first post about the Duplo initiative, we discussed the reasons for launching a project to revamp Slack’s mobile codebases, and what we accomplished in Duplo’s initial Stabilization phase. This post will explore modularization, and then there will be a third post to describe how we modernized our codebase and the overall results of…
What to measure and how for better decision making?
Cloud Migration Success Stories
What have I learned from other women?
27 Mar 2022
In part 1, we ended up with a lot of test data specified in a text file, but without working tests – and with a conundrum as to how we’d test the .NET Core 3.1 data which requires additional information about the “hidden” AdjustmentRule.BaseUtcOffsetDelta property. As with the previous blog post, this one is fairly … Continue reading What’s up…
25 Mar 2022
Discover how to create a presell landing page, with presell page examples.
An easy-to-follow guide to distance selling regulations for SMEs.
Generate B2B invoices quickly and easily using our template
How to sell your online course with the right booking and payment platforms.
See Datadog’s proof of concept exploit for breaking out from unprivileged containers using the Dirty Pipe vulnerability.
MapTiler Cloud Admin API allows you to upload map data, change the metadata of already created tiles, add new ones, update, or delete them.
A Thoughtworker's experience with green cloud optimization
24 Mar 2022
MDN is one of the most trusted resources for information about web standards, code samples, tools, and everything you need as a developer to create websites. Today, we are launching MDN Plus, our first step to providing a personalized and more powerful experience while continuing to invest in our always free and open webdocs. The post Introducing MDN Plus: Make…
Consultant payment terms are always going to vary depending on the business
Cash is no longer king and credit cards might soon follow suit
In the UK it is not illegal for businesses to refuse cash as payment
We look at how to price SaaS software competitively but profitably.
The retention of customer relationships is the key to growth for any business. See the latest research on how payment methods influence customer churn and retention from Zuora, the Subscribed Institute and GoCardless.
Previous posts in this series: Silent Duels and an Old Paper of Restrepo Silent Duels—Parsing the Construction Silent Duels—Constructing the Solution part 1 Since it’s been three years since the last post in this series, and the reason for the delay is that I got totally stuck on the implementation. I’m publishing this draft article as partial progress until I…
23 Mar 2022
We launched Salesforce Functions last fall and the response so far has been terrific. While the most obvious use cases for functions are stateless processing of data, there are many examples of business processes that can take advantage of the simplified operating model of functions, but require some persistent state to span function invocations. Today, […] The post Heroku Data…
Everything payment account users need to know about ASPSPs
Learn more about the benefits of using a sweep account.
Could using open banking API architecture help your business grow?
How to identify and overcome the latest threats in business for 2022 and beyond
source: https://www.freeimages.com/download/private-property-no-trespassing-1205389 I dentity and A ccess M anagement system deals with “who” should get “what” level of access to an object (entity) or a function. The subsystem that defines “who” is called Authentication (Identity), while the subsystem that defines “what” level of access is called Authorization (Access). Building an IAM system can get very complex quickly. No wonder “Broken…
I'm a huge fan of static generated websites! From a personal level, I have The Polyglot Developer, Poké Trainer Nic, and The Tracy Developer Meetup, all three of which are static generated websites bu... The post Add a Comments Section to an Eleventy Website with MongoDB and Netlify appeared first on MongoDB.
Introducing GoCardless' latest open banking powered feature in the UK
After maternity break, successful return to work in a new role
22 Mar 2022
PubNub’s Android Chat Components empower Mobile developers to create chat experiences with minimal build time, so you can get to market faster.
Debt collection tactics and tips to help you recover what you’re owed.
At Groupon, we are in the process of migrating our app workloads to AWS EKS. As part of the migration, we are also in the process of re-architecting our services to make them cloud & Kubernetes optimised. In this article, we will focus on the impact of cloud migration on Varnish caching at Groupon. For the uninitiated, Varnish is a…
Advice on what to do when a customer won’t pay and how to avoid the problem.
How to use automatic savings apps to help you get into the savings habit.
A late invoice payment letter can help you get your cash flow on track.
A simple guide to the key cybersecurity threats and defence strategies for 2022.
How to take credit and debit card payments without using a card machine.
You want a cybersecurity solution that safeguards your enterprise, not one that slows it down. So, finding a security partner that maintains a global data center network is crucial – this reduces latency and improves reliability. Fortunately, the Cisco Umbrella team backs an award-winning solution with an ever-expanding data center network that spans the globe. […] The post New Data…
Re-imagining trade finance with blockchain
21 Mar 2022
Here’s how to accept recurring donations online.
Discover the latest chargeback fraud prevention tips.
In search of a payment processor? Here are some of the top Stripe alternatives.
Learn more about deferred revenue and expenses in accounting.
Can you record deferred revenue before receiving cash? Here’s how.
20 Mar 2022
The title would have been more creative if it was GoReleaser 1.18 as well… maybe… probably not.
18 Mar 2022
Graceful Shutdown Services in Kubernetes
Towards net zero: technology as a sustainability enabler
Tech is ensuring we never suffer another lumber shortage
17 Mar 2022
How to win a chargeback dispute and how to avoid customers charging back.
A simple guide on how to create a contractor invoice using software or manually.
Discover the best accounting tools for freelancers and contractors.
Learn how to manage your business’s revenue risk.
Find out what to expect from a PayPal UK fee calculator.
For both MDN and Open Web Docs (OWD), transparency is paramount to our missions. With the upcoming launch of MDN Plus, we believe it’s a good time to talk about how our two organizations work together, and if there is a financial relationship between us. Here is an overview of how our missions overlap and how they differ, and how…
Words have power: 4 things to consider to make your company policies more inclusive
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Nudge your way to better engineering platforms
16 Mar 2022
Fixing “Guided Access app unavailable. Please contact your administrator” when using Microsoft Intune and Endpoint Manager
SchakkoAnother problem I had recently asked about, had been a failed iPhone MDM rollout. As in my previous blog post mentioned, the endpoints in the environment – including iPhones – are managed with Microsoft Endpoint Manager. During one of the iPhone deployments, the user received the error Guided Access app […] The post Fixing “Guided Access app unavailable. Please contact…
tl;dr: I’m writing a new book, sign up for the announcements mailing list. I’ve written exactly zero new technical blog posts this year because I’ve been spending all my writing efforts on my next book, Practical Math for Programmers (PMFP, subtitle: A Tour of Mathematics in Production Software). I’ve written a little bit about it in my newsletter, Halfspace. There…
15 Mar 2022
Retailers need to keep up with payment processing trends or lose out.