Understanding how to increase online donations is crucial for nonprofits.
15 Mar 2022
Not sure how to set up recurring donations? Read on.
The benefits of tiered pricing include greater potential profits.
Invoice consolidation makes payments easier for you and your clients.
Insights from the latest research on the role payments play in churn.
We’ve released new versions of GPT-3 and Codex which can edit or insert content into existing text, rather than just completing existing text.
14 Mar 2022
This week on The PubNub PubCast, learn how our platform helps companies build engaging, reliable, and scalable Virtual Spaces.
At Salesforce, we strive to balance the security of your data and apps with an efficient and enjoyable user experience. Last year, we shortened login sessions for the Heroku Dashboard to 12 hours to improve security. Starting today, users can stay logged in for up to 24 hours. Even better, if you have multi-factor authentication […] The post Improving User…
How can automated systems help prevent invoice processing problems?
Why you should consider offering Click to Pay
How do you use a bank giro credit transfer to pay bills?
Credit card payment solutions with fees that won’t erode your profit margins.
There are multiple ways to get paid faster and reduce your DSO rate.
Find out how automated billing can drastically improve productivity levels.
Find out what happens when a company grows too fast.
There's a cocktail party version of the efficient markets hypothesis I frequently hear that's basically, "markets enforce efficiency, so it's not possible that a company can have some major inefficiency and survive". We've previously discussed Marc Andreessen's quote that tech hiring can't be inefficient here and here: Let's launch right into it. I think the critique that Silicon Valley companies…
This is the story of how we used the Strangler pattern to migrate our public API from a monolithic codebase to a fully fledged BFF over the…
Six graphic design skills for a career change into software development
Insurers’ role in managing climate change
AI: Augmented – Implementing 21st century decision making
11 Mar 2022
We look at how SMEs can fund their growth using venture capital
We look at the potential benefits of business overdrafts for SMEs
We look at how asset-based finance can provide working capital
Credit might seem like free money but it is still a loan that needs to be paid
MapTiler has made a winter-themed basemap enabling you to build ski resort maps or apps to track ski routes, plan winter sports, and apres-ski entertainment.
A lean data product
10 Mar 2022
PubNub adds Publish and Subscribe for PHP developers. Developers can use Publish/Subscribe from a terminal or web server.
Many of the web functionalities that we rely on once lived within individual desktop applications. From office suites, games, and financial tools, all of them are now web applications; they’re just as feature packed as their desktop counterparts. In the past I’ve used a variety of JavaScript grid widgets on client sites, and each had a number of pain points:…
Learn about what bank payments – the future of payments – can be used for.
MapTiler have greatly improved the styling of their maps of Japan, and these styles are available to use anywhere on Earth.
9 Mar 2022
Hear speakers from Accenture, Plum and GoCardless deep dive into the payment term of the moment - Variable Recurring Payments - explaining what they are and why you’re going to be hearing a lot about them.
What you need to know about how to accept credit card payments.
Discover our guide to creating invoices for gardening services.
Find out how to create the perfect catering invoice.
Discover the 5 best accounting software options for landlords.
Mastercard’s Pay by Bank App vs GoCardless’ Instant Bank Pay Service.
According to a recent Thoughtworks radar, “the industry is increasingly gaining experience with platform engineering product teams that create and support internal platforms.” They caveated this with a piece of advice: “When creating a platform, it’s critical to have clearly defined customers and products that will benefit from it rather than building in a vacuum.”…
Good decision-making is good process, used intentionally. Key lessons and principles to apply in your practice.
Supporting victims of war
8 Mar 2022
Learn everything you need to know about bank payments.
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.
We’re happy to announce the addition of atomic counters and batch set operations, giving users even more capabilities to rapidly build modern applications in the cloud.
7 Mar 2022
It’s been a while since I’ve gotten a few things off of my chest and since I’m always full of peeves and annoyances I thought it was time to unleash: Due to the immensely negative response to any tweet about crypto from my blog account, I created a second account just for crypto musings. I’ll be honest — it hurt…
Changing the organisation — to build the technology right. In earlier blog posts, we explored how we moved BBC online to the cloud. This was part of a wider initiative called WebCore, which used a range of serverless technologies to reimagine the BBC website. There were technical challenges we faced integrating WebCore with our architecture , but this initiative has…
Solve the Knapsack problem with a Genetic Algorithm! This guide offers a polynomial-time approximation for this famous optimization challenge.
Architectural risk management
6 Mar 2022
Automation is a really important skill for engineers, especially when it comes to working with various file types. The more you accept for input, and the more you automate, the better end output you can offer. Filestack’s workflows allow developers to define automated tasks using a their specialized UI. With no coding required, it’s easy to create a document workflow…
GoReleaser 1.6 is out! Another “boring” release with some miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
4 Mar 2022
It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available
The March 2022 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available and it includes support for pre-release versions and changes to the interpreter selector on the status bar. The post Python in Visual Studio Code – March 2022 Release appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.
We are excited to announce research internships in our Tools and Compilers group.
Learn how to set up a Discord app that automatically adds songs to a Spotify playlist using Serverless Cloud.
I'm super late with this post, but again, better late than never. I just couldn't find the inspiration and drive for writing last year. Generally, I lacked motivation and wasn't really productive. Generative Art # As for my art, 2021 wasn't as fruitful as the year before, but I did finish a couple of drawings. I'm still very much into…
3 Mar 2022
PubNub SDKs now require UUIDs, which will enable developers to make better use of their data to enhance their apps and improve the user experience.
Writing high quality standards is a necessary first step to an interoperable web platform, but ensuring that browsers are consistent in their behavior requires an ongoing process. Browsers must work to ensure that they have a shared understanding of web standards, and that their implementation matches that understanding. Interop 2022 is a cross-browser initiative to find and address the most…
Tokenization is an asset in the protection of customer data from cyberattacks
An authorisation hold gives the merchant greater control over their business
The issuer represents the cardholder bank and the acquirer the merchant bank
PCI compliance – What level is my business and what do I need to know?
Everything you need to know about billing descriptors and how they work.
Call for expressions of interest to study the economic impacts of large language models.
We describe our latest thinking in the hope of helping other AI developers address safety and misuse of deployed models.
How women are leading the charge in emerging tech
The game of retail returns: what cannot be cured must be endured
What causes poor cloud ROI — and how to fix it
2 Mar 2022
If you've been keeping up with my .NET Core series on MongoDB, you'll remember that we explored creating a simple console application as well as building a RESTful API with basic CRUD support. In both... The post Joining Collections in MongoDB with .NET Core and an Aggregation Pipeline appeared first on MongoDB.
Is your small business fully compliant with the law?
How do you calculate the profit from your revenue?
Could digital technology transform your business?
How can freelancers stay on top of their finances?
We look at the largest private equity firms and how they can help your SME
Hear from Lifestyle Fitness and GoCardless in this pre-recorded webinar on how failed payments don't have to be an inevitability of doing business. See how you can leverage Success+ to improve NPS scores and revenue.
Defining multicloud deployment models for enterprises
Connecting two solutions to support intelligent reforestation across the UK
The Felix Project: Tackling London’s food crisis through volunteer-centric tech decision-making
Thoughtworks InsightsThe Felix Project: Tackling London’s food crisis through volunteer-centric tech decision-making
1 Mar 2022
A guide to the most secure payment methods available in the UK.
A Message from PubNub's CEO on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine #TechForUkraine
The average cyber attack will cost a business around £2.9 million per incident.
Could we be about to enter the era of the boomerang employee?
Discover what non-recurring payments mean.
Learn about ecommerce payment processing solutions.
Learn about Merchant of Record payment processing
How to manage your clients effectively without it taking over your life.
A simple guide to pay as you go pricing versus the subscription pricing model.
Discover tips and tricks for starting a business from scratch with no money.
What is a recurring invoice? Read our guide to find out.
6 reasons it makes sense to use ACH via GoCardless to collect payments from US customers!
If you’ve accessed the MDN website today, you probably noticed that it looks quite different. We hope it’s a good different. Let us explain! In mid-2021 we started to think about modernizing MDN’s design, to create a clean and inviting website that makes navigating our 44,000 articles as easy as possible. We wanted to create a more holistic experience for…
A lot of RDBMS support standard SQL sequences of some form. The standard SQL syntax to create a sequence is: The following is how you could fetch a value from this sequence, using jOOQ, assuming you’re using the code generator: The sequence expression translates to a variety of dialects: You can also embed the S.nextval() … Continue reading How to…
7 reasons it makes sense to use Direct Debit via GoCardless to collect payments from your customers!
This post was originally written for our internal technology newsletter at Work & Co. It is a little bit adapted for web, but the content is almost identical. About a year ago I made this plot. It is called "Krypton"Named by a dear friend and ex-colleague, and I'll try to break down how it was made. The wonderful thing about…
28 Feb 2022
How developers can create a space where players can forge deep, genuine relationships through gaming.
This tutorial will cover how you can quickly and easily customize React Chat Components to fit your exact needs.
Learn more about our short and long-term strategies for reaching net-zero
Join Deputy, Zuora and GoCardless to discuss the importance of customer churn and how to optimise payments for customer retention.
How several patches and fixes in Go 1.18 bring improved profiling accuracy.
Create the most stunning game environments by modifying real terrain maps of any place on Earth.
This is going to be a very straight forward post. Just a list of JavaScript libraries I use in creating my generative art. And I really mean I use (and abuse) them. All of them are used in multiple of my drawings. I'll include couple of photos under the respective libraries. I finally settled with these libraries after trying several…