by Brian Terrell

CodePartners, the programming department at BTerrell Group, provides value added services to Intacct and Sage business partners around the world. We were floored the other day to realize our customer footprint extends to 36 countries around the globe. That’s exciting but not possible unless we consistency deliver the last mile of functionality to our business partners' end...

by Derek Du

If a WebAPI service takes a long time to complete, the caller -- the client side -- may timeout waiting for a response. There are several options to solve this issue, you can increase the timeout limit on the client side and web server side, or use a more persistent connection method like WebSocket and SignalR.

I propose a different way to avoid the timeout issue that all...

by Emma Tsai

Here are some of my favorite articles:

1.       The Beauty of Software Testing

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140928152241-2293107-the-beauty-of-software-testing?trk=cha-feed-art-title-5806474024590520328
Too often if the project is late our hurry-up-and-learn or agile methods are employed. Testing is one of those efforts where corners are cut. Ho...

by Brian Terrell
Recently, I stumbled across a blog article on SaaS pricing authored by Leo Widrich, the Chief Marketing Officer of Buffer. Buffer provides social media automation by helping companies large and small schedule and measure social content publishing. In the case of Twitter, Buffer allows a social media poster to spend a short amount of time creating enough tweets to publish over...

by Jacky Xu

Recently, our Intacct projects keep getting the error “The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel” when the program request posts to Intacct web site. So, I searched for the solution from the website. Some blogs said, “Many companies have disabled SSLv3.” and “TLS is the standard protocol in .NET for a few years and SSLv3 is just us...

by Derek Du

Displaying error message is one of the most basic functions of an application, but it also can be overlooked easily because we often focus on the core functions of the application. There are many ways to present error messages, but in my opinion there are basically three objectives we want to achieve with error message and as long as the design can fulfill those, it is a ...

by Emma Tsai

Occasionally , a client asks us why the registration screen of our Sage components (such as National Account Change and Employee Number Change) keeps popping up after they are successfully installed on the server.    

The registration screen pops up only when the program cannot find the registration file. If this happens to you, try this:

1.   ...

by Jacky Xu

Before a new version of SQL server is released, we always implement data paging through the transact-SQL function “ROW_NUMBER” and it always needs a nested SQL script. Microsoft released new scripts “OFFSET” and “FETCH” for data paging functions. Here are two sample queries for different SQL server version paging function.

First, we query all dat...

by Derek Du

Flexibility has a real cost

 
It is common for people to ask UI designers to design a system as flexible as possible. People believe that it is always better for something to be flexible. They think the more flexible the system is, the better the overall experience of the system. However, this is not always true. When we say this design is more flexible than the other one, we ar...

by Emma Tsai

Here are some of my favorite articles I found this past week:

Four Customer Experience Secrets for Subscription-based Businesses

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/four-customer-experience-secrets-subscription-based-jacob-wobbrock?trk=cha-feed-art-title-207

Reducing customer churn is key to building a healthy subscription-based business. The article gives four secrets to reducing ...