Discover the steps involved in gaining BACS approved status
5 Jan 2022
4 Jan 2022
We explore how BaaS can transform money management for your business.
Discover how to write and deposit a cheque in our guide.
Cheques don’t last forever, so cash them before they expire.
Is cashing foreign cheques in UK banks possible? Find out how.
We look at how to eliminate barriers to sale with an email payment link.
An introduction to what you might be asked at the interview
3 Jan 2022
Linux's epoll API solved the C10K problem, enabling fast and afforable Internet services.
A special skill you need to develop is how to find solutions, and when you don't find them yourself, how to ask for help
Explore conflict resolution strategies in multi-master databases. Learn to handle conflicts with unique IDs, database precedence, & custom logic.
2 Jan 2022
Soft skills that help software developers work better with teams and interviews.
1 Jan 2022
How to be a great fit into a team environment
When you're developing a game, whether it be 2D or 3D, you're going to need to add menus with buttons at some point. These buttons could be as simple as a means to exit the game, or something more com... The post Interacting with Sprite and UI Buttons in a Unity Game appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.
Wow, here we are, the sixth installment in the New Year series of posts. This year feels almost like a lost weekend. Aside from a few small…
31 Dec 2021
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
5 tips for setting up and establishing a small successful business.
Read about our 4 best card machines for small business.
Making a CHAPS payment is simple and fast.
Contactless payment apps allow for quick and secure transactions.
Payment apps offer quick and secure transactions.
Practical thoughts on managing software projects without adding unnecessary complexity.
Reviewing 2021's highs, lows, and everything in between.
30 Dec 2021
Sara Soueidan is an independent Web UI and design engineer, author, speaker, and trainer from Lebanon. Currently, she’s working on a new course, "Practical Accessibility," meant to teach devs and designers ways to make their products accessible. We chatted with Sara about front-end web development, the importance of design and her appreciation of birds. The post Hacks Decoded: Sara Soueidan,…
I have spent a lot of time this year working with CVE data and most of that time in Jupyter notebooks. Over the holiday season, I decided to build a website from these notebooks using Github Actions, Github Pages and NBConvert. CVE.ICU ended up being the end product, and here is the source code. It is still an early work…
29 Dec 2021
How to amend and cancel direct debits and update payment bank details.
Accurate reconciliation is vital for businesses. Find out why and how to do it.
An explanation of AUDDIS, ADDACS and ARUDD and what they mean for your business.
Marketing is making consumers aware of your brand and forging a connection.
Five of the most popular online payment methods for your small business.
28 Dec 2021
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Behind-the-scenes of designcember.com.
27 Dec 2021
Replacing a substring of text within a larger string has always been misleading in JavaScript. I wrote Replace All Occurrences of a String in JavaScript years ago and it’s still one of my most read articles. The confusion lies in that replace only replaces the first occurrence of a substring, not all occurrences. For example: 'yayayayayaya'.replace('ya', 'na'); // nayayayayaya To…
25 Dec 2021
About 3 years ago I wrote about my Linux Desktop Setup and having used pretty much the same software setup for 10-15 years. My setup used to be heavily keyboard based. Now for work I am for the first time using a macOS-based Macbook Pro with an M1 Pro CPU. I spent the last 3 weeks using it as a…
24 Dec 2021
VRPs are coming in 2022, but what exactly are they and how do they work?
23 Dec 2021
Learn about confirmation of payee for your business.
Discover the best ways to increase ecommerce sales.
An explanation of when to use POs and how to process PO and non-PO invoices.
A simple explanation of the benefits of open banking and open banking apps.
22 Dec 2021
All Grouponers who haven’t been living under a rock this past year probably know what CX90 is. But for the few that missed out on this extraordinary project and the rest of the world, CX90 was a huge effort across the Product and Engineering Teams at Groupon where all of us came together to redesign our user experience and interface…
Learn about the climate action initiatives we've launched in 2021
I got a MacBook Pro 14" with an Apple M1 Pro SoC, 16GB of memory and 500GB of disk a couple of weeks ago, and wanted to write my impressions about it, since a lot of people ask.
Six necessary conditions for a successful digital transformation
Data mesh: A lean perspective
I answer the question "what is one thing you can do to make your site better?"
21 Dec 2021
Everything you need to know about accepting payments via phone, post or email.
Discover AVS services and how to conduct an AVS check.
Learn about continuous accounting for business
Learn about consumer behaviour theory in business.
The tldr Naming conventions dictate the way you write names (for methods, folders, variables and so on). The three most common are camel…
It’s been over a week since Amazon Web Services experienced the outage that impacted AWS’ main US-East-1 region. For roughly nine hours on December 7, 2021, things built on the AWS platform, from business websites to educational tools, ceased to operate. Then, on December 15, AWS experienced a second outage that affected Amazon’s US-West-1 and […] The post How the…
GoReleaser v1.2 is out — likely be the last feature release of 2021. It also marks the first 5 years since its first commit. It comes packed with some great features and fixes by several people!
AWS announced Lambda event filtering during re:Invent 2021. This new feature helps reduce the quantity of Lambda's invocation to exactly match your requirements and possibly save on costs. We'll deep dive into a specific example in this article. We're happy to announce that Serverless Framework now supports event filtering for both `stream` and `sqs` event types via the new `filterPatterns`…
Three things to consider when moving to the cloud
The business case for Data Mesh
Five surprising business problems you can tackle with machine learning
Transformative business use cases for blockchain and cryptocurrency
20 Dec 2021
Discover how GoCardless can help you to keep more customers.
We look at what makes the fastest-growing SaaS companies thrive.
Our guide to paid-up capital for publicly traded companies and investors.
— Building Felix, the Design System for Groupon Several new features have been released on Groupon.com recently, such as the QR code in the navigation bar to download the app, and a banner carousel to display multiple banner messages within a single view. In the past, similar product features might take 2–3 sprints to complete, but now all of these…
We look at the role of payment instruments in cashless transactions.
We explore accounts for high risk and low risk merchants.
We look at some of the best ways for your charity to accept payments.
Transforming sustainability in your supply chain
19 Dec 2021
Intro In the previous article in this series, "How to use ESLint with TypeScript", we learned how add ESLint to our project and configure it…
18 Dec 2021
This is an excerpt from an internal document David Mackey and I co-authored in April 2019. The document is excerpted since much of the original doc was about comparing possible approaches to increasing efficency at Twitter, which is mostly information that's meaningless outside of Twitter without a large amount of additional explanation/context. At Twitter, most CPU bound services start falling…
17 Dec 2021
Hear businesses discuss how we can take real climate action at work and at home
Hear what we've been doing behind the scenes to create a climate action plan
Hear SMEs share their climate action journey, including learnings and challenges
The golden rules of responsible tech (Part 1)
16 Dec 2021
Technical interviews are the worst. Getting meaningful signal from candidates without wasting their time is notoriously hard. Thankfully, the industry has come a long way from brainteaser-style questions and interviews requiring candidates to balance a binary tree with dry erase markers in front of a group of strangers. There are more valuable ways to spend time today, and in this…
Learn how nature can help businesses to become more sustainable
Starting from Spring Boot 2.5, there’s a handy new callback that you can implement, called DefaultConfigurationCustomizer, where the word DefaultConfiguration corresponds to jOOQ’s DefaultConfiguration. You can simply create a class like this in your project: The above callback receives the DefaultConfiguration at its initialisation stage, during which you can still safely mutate it to change … Continue reading How to…
There are a number of utilities required to really power a content management system and its users. One of the most important utilities is a performant, feature-rich WYSIWYG editor. We’ve always had to choose between the two exiting editors, CKEditor and TinyMCE, but now we have Froala, a next generation WYSIWYG editor from Sencha. Quick Hits Amazing advanced features like…
GraphQL can be an extremely powerful and efficient way to create APIs and MongoDB Realm makes it easy by allowing you to connect your collections to GraphQL schemas without writing a single line of co... The post Implement Full-Text Search over a GraphQL API in MongoDB Atlas appeared first on MongoDB.
As 2021 draws to an end, we've rounded up our most popular content and questions
DNS tunneling is a technique that encodes data of other programs and protocols in DNS queries, including data payloads that can be used to control a remote server and applications. Because of this, DNS tunneling – and DNS exfiltration associated with it by threat actors – is of great concern to many IT and SecOps […] The post Introducing Improvements…
Success+ uses machine learning to find the optimal time to retry failed payments
We’ve fine-tuned GPT-3 to more accurately answer open-ended questions using a text-based web browser.
New MapTiler Planet maps have more than 150 million new buildings, quality control, greatly improved landcover, and upgraded hillshading and contours. It’s our best ever mapping!
Questionable metrics for measuring product quality
The rise and stumble of a DSL: the story of how we tested data pipelines
Decentralised data teams - So much more than the shiny tools
Insights top picks from 2021
15 Dec 2021
We recently launched a technology preview for the next-generation code search we have been building. If you haven’t signed up already, go ahead and do it now! We want to share more about our work on code exploration, navigation, search, and developer productivity. Recently, we substantially improved the precision of our code navigation for Python, and open-sourced the tools we…
More so than any other level of the management chain, front-line engineering managers are the most attuned to the day to day realities of shipping software. Giving them a collective voice to surface what works and what doesn’t is critical to understanding the efficacy of organizational policy and process.
Is economy pricing the right model for your business?
Is Software as a Service or subscription the model you need to use?
Discover the best billing solutions for an MSP (Managed Service Provider).
What is cost per lead and why does it matter?
Choose the best digital wallet for you.
Learn more about our support for Rebalance Earth
Learn how to setup a custom URL shortener for your startup that you can extend later with Serverless Cloud.
Practicing agile security at scale
MLOps culture and automation are key to scalable machine learning
