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Almost every single company we talk to focuses on having their engineering teams solve problems.

The terms Usability and User Experience are often confused and misused. These are interrelated disciplines, but they are certainly far from being synonymous. They have the interaction between the user and an object/platform.

In this article, we will try to clarify some doubts about this issue.

Optimal Blue, a division of Black Knight and the operators of a digital marketplace for the mortgage industry, has announced a new API for Lead-Quoting that the company hopes will e

NatWest, a retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom, has announced the release of a new API to support Confirmation of Payee (CoP) for its commercial partners. This new offering is intended to reduce potential scams and mediate customer error. 

Introduction

IBM App Connect V12 introduced a new capability called Business Transaction Monitoring (BTM) which allows the user to record a message throughout its lifecycle and determine its outcome.

What Is Transaction Monitoring?

Transaction monitoring involves surveying each message that passes through your flows and ruling whether it was transmitted successfully or had failed to reach the destination. Monitoring each transaction through an integration ensures that developers are notified when a system fails, and output has not been received. However, simply monitoring if a message has reached its destination does not help identify the specific problem, which is where Business Transaction Monitoring can help.

Today, I will explain a SQL Server string function PATINDEX () used to return an integer value representing the starting position of the first occurrence of a pattern in a specified expression. This function will return zero if the pattern is not found in the specified expression.

The syntax of this function is given below.

A Raspberry Pi is a mini-computer board to which you can connect a monitor, mouse, and keyboard, and install a Linux-based operating system with a GUI. Or you can use it in “headless” mode with no GUI and run, for example, a database server. There are many usages you can give a Raspberry Pi—from building a Minecraft server to smart mirrors, the possibilities are endless.

Since I started to discover MariaDB and learned about database clusters, Distributed SQL, and Xpand, the idea of building a Raspberry Pi cluster has been in the back of my head. A cluster like this is a great way to experiment with distributed systems.

Tom Granot and I have had the privilege of Vlad Mihalcea’s online company for a while now. As a result,  we decided to do a workshop together talking about a lot of the things we learned in the process. This workshop would be pretty informal ad-hoc, just a bunch of guys chatting and showing off what we can do with tooling. 

In celebration of that, I thought I’d write about some of the tricks we discussed amongst ourselves in the past to give you a sense of what to expect when joining us for the workshop but also a useful tool in its own right.

Set reminders with @RemindMe_OfThis

An open-source Twitter bot that lets you easily set reminders for public tweets. Mention @RemindMe_OfThis in the reply of any tweet and specify the time in natural English when you would like to reminded of that tweet.

You could say things like in 2 days or in 12 hours or next week or even in 5 years. Check out the source on Github.

Save Twitter Threads with @ThreadReaderApp

The gurus on Twitter have figured out that threads are the best way to extend the reach of their tweets and @ThreadReaderApp makes is really easy for you read and save these threads.

To get started, reply to any tweet of a thread and mention @threadreaderapp with the “unroll” keyword. and they create a single page with all the tweets arranged in chronologicusefual order. Blog posts anyone?

Also see: Search Twitter Like a Pro

Capture Screenshots with @pikaso_me

Reply to a tweet with the word “screenshot this” and mention @pikaso_me in the reply. You’ll receive a reply tweet with a screenshot image of the original tweet.

The twitter bot capture images in tweets but you can also use Screenshot Guru for that.

Download Videos with @DownloaderBot

You can easily download any video or GIF image from tweets with the help of this Twitter bot.

Mention @DownloaderBot in a reply to any tweet that contains either a video or a gif image, and you will receive a reply with the direct link to download the media.

Twitter, like YouTube, may have a love-hate relationship with bots that allow downloading videos off their platform so it is always a good idea to bookmarks some alternatives. There’s @GetVideoBot, @SendVidBot and @Get_This_V.

Also see: Create your own Twitter Bots

Current, a financial technology platform serving Americans working to create a better future for themselves, today announced the launch of its platform API, built to facilitate seamless integrations and embedded banking experiences.

Plaid is the first-ever partner and will provide Current members access to a credential-less open finance experience.