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vi The one where we interviewed Luca Ferrari By postgresweekly.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 #352 — April 22, 2020 Read on the Web ???? We've got a neat bonus for you this week at the bottom of the issue ???? Postgres Weekly Postgres Explain Visualizer 2: A Vue.js Component to Show Execution Plans — Less a standalone tool and something you’d use when building your own Postgres tooling. There is, however, a demo here. The output is really nifty. Dalibo Insert-Only Tables To Be Autovacuumed in Postgres 13 (But Why?) — Autovacuuming clears up dead tuples that are often left when updating or deleting data from tables, so why is autovacuuming for append-only tables a big deal in Postgres 13? Laurenz explains. Laurenz Albe Faster CI/CD for All Your Software Projects Using Buildkite — See how Shopify scaled from 300 to 1800 engineers while keeping their build times under 5 minutes. Buildkite sponsor Full Text Search in Milliseconds with Rails and Postgres — If you’ve never played with full text search with Postgres and Rails, this is a fine place to start. It covers LIKE/ILIKE, trigrams, and ‘proper’ full text searching. We also get to see how Leigh took a query from taking 130ms down to 7ms. Leigh Halliday An Easy Postgres 12 and pgAdmin 4 Setup with Docker — Docker provides an easy and loosely coupled way to get things set up in a development environment. Jonathan S. Katz Is There a Limit on Number of Partitions Handled by Postgres? — Sort of, but you’d really have to be going at it to stretch Postgres 12’s capabilities in this area. Denish Patel Where Do My Postgres Settings Come From? — A nice visual look at how parameters and settings cascade or override each other. My DBA Notebook Identify Slow-Running PostgreSQL Queries Quickly in Datadog — Improve PostgreSQL performance by visualizing and identifying errors fast using granular, out-of-the-box dashboards in Datadog. Datadog sponsor Replicate Multiple Postgres Servers to a Single MongoDB Server using Logical Decoding Output Plugin David Zhang An Overview of the JOIN Methods in Postgres Kumar Rajeev Rastogi ???? A Q&A with…Luca FerrariPostgres community organizer, author, adjunct professor, and open source advocate. Luca Ferrari has had a huge impact on the Postgres community in Italy, having been president of the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group in the past and having helped to organize the popular PGDay.it events. He also blogs frequently about Postgres and wrote PostgreSQL 11 Server Side Programming Quick Start Guide for Packt. Note: A more complete version of this interview is on the Web. We caught up with him to ask about server side Postgres use cases in particular: For those who use Postgres as a simple database and haven't touched the deeper elements, where do you think they should start? There's no single answer to this question, since Postgres is such a huge project with so many features and a rich community. I never found a project where it cannot fit in. Postgres is somehow like Unix: you cannot touch it as "just a database", you need to commit to its culture to benefit the most out of it. In my classes, I can see that people usually get fascinated by the capabilities of doing server side programming, and that is why I decided to write my book about this topic. Often, people do not expect to be able to embed their Perl, Java, or Python libraries directly into PostgreSQL without having to rewrite their business logic in an SQL-like language. Another great feature nowdays is the support to JSON within the database, thanks to which PostgreSQL can be used as both a relational database and a 'NoSQL' storage engine, providing a lot of flexibility in your infrastructure. One suggestion I always gave is to join the mailing lists: there are several that differ by topic and amount of traffic. Most are very active and have high quality contributors that take care in providing accuate replies to users' questions, that spend time in reproducing errors and edge-cases, and who will help you. That's a mandatory place where you have to start, in my opinion, to better learn about the project, its features and its culture. Where should the line be drawn between doing things in an external programming language versus within Postgres? Often the right choice is to place business logic near the data it refers to, that is within the database itself. However, there are several things to take into account including the developer's experience and the expressiveness of SQL-derived languages like pl/PgSQL. There's a habit of letting ORMs (Object Relational Mappers) do most of the database interaction nowadays, reducing the database to a "simple storage". Of course, databases can do a lot more, and PostgreSQL in particular can help you migrate and embed your own business logic into the database itself. I have helped a few companies embed their own Java libraries into Postgres resulting in a more robust and coherent way to access the data (the real value) without any regard of the application they were using. Because once you start having data, you will soon find that such data is required by multiple applications in different technologies and on different platforms, so that implementing the same business logic rules over and over becomes a huge effort; on the other hand, moving such logic within the database simplifies and keep uniform the way your data is manipulated. What one thing do you think people should learn? Stored procedures. They serve as a common base for triggers and are very similar to routines, therefore allowing you to build more complex pieces into your own cluster. Once you have learnt the common way of defining functions, you can go deeper and write your own native functions using other languages (e.g. C). This is more complex, but thanks to the extensibility of Postgres is not an impossible task and can help you migrating more and more code into the database. Once you have created a new feature, please do contribute it back so that other people can use it! ... Last, allow me to announce that I'm working on another book right now: me and a friend of mine are writing a more general book on Postgres that will try to answer your question by leading the reader through the main features that make Postgres unique and great. Be sure to check out Luca's book PostgreSQL 11 Server Side Programming Quick Start Guide to learn more about the topics covered in this interview. You can also find the code from the book in this GitHub repo. If you enjoyed this interview, Luca actually gave some more detailed answers in the full interview which you can read here. Full Article
vi An interview with Ruby ETL expert Thibaut Barrère By rubyweekly.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 #499 — April 30, 2020 Read on the Web ???? Occasionally we run interviews in Ruby Weekly and we're back with another one.. with long time Rubyist and Kiba maintainer, Thibaut Barrère. Be sure to check out the bottom of this issue to read it, especially if you ever run ETL jobs with Ruby! ???? Ruby Weekly ▶ Let's Build a Twitter Clone in 10 Minutes with Rails, CableReady, and StimulusReflex — You know that cloning Twitter in 10 minutes is impossible, but what about the core mechanism of the idea? After a slow first minute, this video does a pretty good job of showing off some techniques you might not have used before. Nate Hopkins discuss.rubyonrails: The Rails Project Discussion Forum — Basically a Web version of the Rails mailing lists and a worthwhile place to head if you want to suggest features, ask questions, etc. Ruby on Rails Discussions Easy Rails Deployments — Deploy your Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, and Rack application to any cloud or server. Cloud 66 offers a scalable Heroku alternative that doesn't lock you in. Try it free and get extra $66 free credits with the code: 'Ruby-Weekly'. Cloud 66 sponsor sequel-activerecord-adapter: Allows Sequel to Reuse an ActiveRecord Connection — If you want to use more Sequel or migrate in that direction, this makes it easy. Janko Marohnić Ruby Adds Experimental Support for 'End-Less' Method Definitions — We’ve touched on this in a previous issue, but if you fancy a proper blog post with examples, this is more accessible than digging through feature tracker discussions. I’m not a fan of this syntax myself yet, but Prateek does a good job of selling it. Prateek Choudhary CableReady: Trigger Client-Side DOM Changes from Server-Side Ruby — If you skipped the video above because it’s a video (and I know many of you do ????) CableReady is still worth checking out. It aims to “complete the ActionCable story” by providing a way to directly interact with clients over ActionCable WebSockets. The docs will help you get the idea. Hopsoft ???? Jobs Find a Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery Security Engineer (Remote) — Are you an engineer with experience in Rails and/or Go? Join our team and help secure our apps and cloud infrastructure. Shogun ℹ️ Interested in running a job listing in Ruby Weekly? There's more info here. ???? Articles & Tutorials A Practical Use for PStore — PStore is one of the older parts of Ruby’s stdlib and lets you persist (and restore) a Ruby hash to disk. I haven’t seen it in Ruby code for years but Arkency have found a neat, modern use case. Paweł Pacana ▶ Drag and Drop Sortable Lists with Rails and Stimulus JS — How to wire up drag and drop lists with a Rails app using Sortable, Stimulus and acts_as_list. Go Rails Setting Up Multi-Factor Authentication for RubyGems.org — If you’re a registered user of the official Ruby Gems repository, you should have had an email this week about securing your account using 2FA. This is just my own reminder that this is a good idea especially if you publicly publish widely used gems! :-) Rubygems.org Let’s Explore Big-O Notation With Ruby ???? — Learn to use Big-O to look at an algorithm and easily discern its efficiency, without having to run a profiling tool. Honeybadger sponsor ▶ Discussing Docker and Kubernetes with Kelsey Hightower — A worthwhile show to listen to if Kubernetes and Docker intimidate you but you want to know a little more. Kelsey is good at breaking these things down into understandable pieces. Rails with Jason Podcast podcast Rails System Tests in Docker — We’re seeing an uptick in articles about system tests in Rails. Here’s how to integrate them into your development Docker setup. Hint.io The Difference Between System Specs and Feature Specs — If you’ve felt the difference between RSpec’s “feature specs” and “system specs” is quite subtle, this explanation will help. Jason Swett Why Rubyists Should Consider Learning Go — If you want compilation and a type system, Crystal is probably a better fit for Rubyists, but Go is undoubtedly a neat language and ecosystem (and if you do end up in the Go world, check out our Go weekly! ????) Ayooluwa Isaiah Building a Ruby CLI with Thor Daniel Gómez ???? Code and Tools git curate: Peruse and Delete git Branches Ergonomically — Got a repo cluttered with branches here and there? git curate aims to cure the pains of getting those branches back under control. Matt Harvey MessageBus: A Reliable and Robust Messaging Bus for Ruby and Rack Sam Saffron Are You Spending Too Much on Heroku? Rails Autoscale sponsor bootstrap_form: A Rails Form Builder for Bootstrap v4-Style Forms Bootstrap Ruby ActiveModelAttributes: The Active Record Attributes API, but for Active Model — Brings some of the goodies of the Rails 5 Active Record attributes API to ActiveModel too. 1.6.0 just dropped. Karol Galanciak ???? A Q&A with…Thibaut BarrèreCreator of Kiba ETL Thibaut Barrère is a long-time Rubyist and data engineer who built and maintains the popular Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) framework Kiba. We asked him some questions about his work: What inspired you to create Kiba? A lot of my work since ~2005 has been focused on data integration (making systems speak together), data aggregation etc. I sometimes used GUI-based tools like Microsoft SSIS which, while powerful, are quite far from the coding experience. I was already using Ruby at that time, and was happy to discover activewarehouse-etl (maintained by Anthony Eden, who runs DNSimple now) providing a Ruby DSL to declare data pipelines. I used it for a while with very good success to implement data extractions and business intelligence ETL, and ultimately took over the maintenance. In the long run, though (as I explained in a recent Paris.rb talk), the balance between the the cost of OSS maintenance and the usability for my billable and non-billable use-cases proved to be not good enough, which made me decide to stop the maintenance, sadly. I still wanted to use Ruby to write data pipelines, but I needed to cover more use-cases and reduce the OSS maintenance burden at the same time. This ultimately led me to write and share (in 2015) Kiba ETL, a focused DSL for declarative processing, matching those criterias. Do you find yourself adding more features while in quarantine? Before the quarantine, I directed my Kiba bandwith and focus on finalizing Kiba v3 and rewriting the documentation from scratch, to properly encourage best practices I’ve been discovering. I also created experimental branches for Ruby 2.7/2.8 keywords. During the quarantine, I've reduced client work and OSS work too, to focus on shipping Kiba Pro v2 (which I’ll announce shortly officially). I’ve extracted and generalized (from real-life projects) very useful components, such as a “batch SQL lookup” (useful when replacing relationships keys during data migrations and datawarehouses sync code, in batch rather than row by row), a “file lock” to ensure a single job runs at once, and a “parallel transform” to achieve easy concurrency for things like HTTP queries. What's the wildest ETL that you've encountered? Getting the data out of a system which is actively not acting in that direction is always a bit wild.. One can see all types of fancy stuff on the field. For instance, it is not uncommon to have an ETL process start a headless browser, jump through pages, just to get to the CSV/PDF/Excel file that you will then use as your data source! You can also end up having to figure out ways to read or write very old file formats at times. Recently I wrote a Kiba component to generate a COBOL delimited file, for instance. In large companies, a very widely used I/O is good old SFTP, far away from modern APIs and formats. Can you tell us how to say your last name? ???? I had to deploy a page to my blog to answer that question properly ????. You’ll find out how to say my name here. Merci Thibaut! You can read some of Thibaut's posts on his blog and find out more about Kiba ETL here. Full Article
vi A transpiler for futuristic Ruby, and the RailsConf 2020 videos By rubyweekly.com Published On :: Thu, 7 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 #500 — May 7, 2020 Read on the Web ???? Welcome to issue 500! A bit of an arbitrary milestone but thanks to you all :-) Ruby Weekly Ruby Next: Make All Rubies Quack Alike — Ruby Next is a Ruby-to-Ruby transpiler that allows you to use the latest features of Ruby in previous versions without monkey patching or refinements. Could this be how experimental features are released going forward? Vladimir Dementyev Ruby 3 'Guilds' Proposal Now Called Ractor — This documentation is in Japanese (though the source code examples are easy to follow) but the news is that the new, proposed concurrency mechanism for Ruby 3 called Guilds (explained here) has been renamed to Ractor (as in ‘Ruby actors’, Ruby’s take on the actor model). Koichi Sasada Don’t Do Auth From Scratch. Focus On Your App — Spend less time on authentication and authorization and more time developing your awesome app. Auth built for <devs>. Download our community edition for free. FusionAuth sponsor Take the 2020 Ruby on Rails Survey — This is the sixth outing for Planet Argon’s survey which began in 2009. We try and support it each time as the results always make for interesting reading (see 2018’s results). Participate and become data ???? Planet Argon Team ???? RailsConf 2020 Videos If you recall, RailsConf 2020 was cancelled in its in-person form to be replaced by a 'couch edition'. This has been taking place and the videos have been released! Here are some of the highlights: DHH's keynote which takes the form of a chat between him and Evan Phoenix. Eileen Uchitelle digs deep on Rails' multi database support. (We interviewed her a few months ago too.) Building a Rails Controller From Scratch by Alex Kitchens digs into the interesting world of reimplementing ActionController with something of your own creation. Krystan HuffMenne takes us on a journey into the lifecycle of a response in Rails. It's worth understanding this stuff. Learn about using Sorbet to do static type checking in Rails with Hung Harry Doan. Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson (who has just moved to Shopify) has a talk on, well, lots of bits and pieces in his usual style. If you want the full collection, here's the YouTube playlist. Alt::BrightonRuby: A Slightly Odd, Quasi-Conference for Strange Times — Alt::BrightonRuby is not happening in-person this year. Instead, you can buy the recorded talks, get a _why book, and get some podcasts with the speakers. Alt::BrightonRuby ???? Jobs Find a Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery Security Engineer (Remote) — Are you an engineer with experience in Rails and/or Go? Join our team and help secure our apps and cloud infrastructure. Shogun ℹ️ Interested in running a job listing in Ruby Weekly? There's more info here. ???? Articles & Tutorials ▶ How To Begin Contributing to a Gem — If you’ve been using a library for a while and you want to contribute back, how do you get started? A 12 minute introduction here. Drifting Ruby How to Set Up Factory Bot on a Fresh Rails Project — Factory Bot is a library for setting up Ruby objects as test data – an alternative to fixtures, essentially. Jason Swett Using Postgres's DISTINCT ON to Avoid an N+1 Query — “Recently I fixed a tricky N+1 query and thought I should write it up..” John Nunemaker Need to Upgrade Rails? Don’t Know How Long It Will Take? — Get an action plan for your Rails upgrade and an in-depth report about your technical debt and outdated dependencies ????. FastRuby.io | Rails Upgrade Services sponsor 5 Uses for 'Splats' — 5 different ways to leverage Ruby’s splat (*) operator. Jason Dinsmore Running Multiple Instances of Webpacker — If you’re working on multiple Rails apps at once, changing where Rails gets served up is easy by configuring the port, but what about Webpacker? That requires another tweak. Scott Watermasysk Performing Asynchronous HTTP requests in Rails — How to update parts an app’s pages with asynchronous HTTP requests. A step-by-step how-to with JavaScript’s fetch() function, and Rails native server-side partial rendering. Remi Mercier How to Use AWS SimpleDB from Ruby — If you haven’t heard of AWS SimpleDB, you wouldn’t be alone as it’s not very popular, but it’s a pretty simple and cheap way to store simple documents in the cloud. Peter Cooper What's The Difference Between Monitoring Webhooks and Background Jobs AppSignal sponsor Ways to Reduce Your Heroku App's Slug Size — You might be surprised Heroku didn’t already do some of this for you. Rohit Kumar A Chat with Thibaut Barrère — If you missed our interview with Thibaut Barrere (Rubyist, and creator of the Kiba ETL framework) in last week’s issue, you can catch up here. Glenn Goodrich ???? Code and Tools Rodauth 2.0: Ruby's 'Most Advanced' Authentication Framework — A authentication framework that can work in any Rack-based webapp. Built using Roda and Sequel, Rodauth can be used with other frameworks and database libraries if you wish. Why’s it so advanced? More info on that here. Jeremy Evans RubyGems 3.1.3 Released — Lots of little bug fixes and tweaks. RubyGems Blog Business: Business Day Calculations for Ruby — Define your working days and holidays and then you can do ‘business day arithmetic’ (for example, what’s in 5 working days after now taking holidays and weekends into account?) GoCardless Lockbox: Modern Encryption for Rails Andrew Kane split: The Rack Based A/B 'Split' Testing Framework — A mature framework with robust configuration and multiple options for determining the winning option. Split P.S. In last week's issue, one of the links to our sponsors was incorrect and some readers emailed us to say they really wanted to read the promised article, Let’s Explore Big-O Notation with Ruby, so here it is. Apologies for any inconvenience. Full Article
vi An insightful interview with Go's Rob Pike By golangweekly.com Published On :: Fri, 1 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 #310 — May 1, 2020 Unsubscribe : Read on the Web Golang Weekly An Interview with Go's Rob Pike — Go’s co-creator answers some big picture questions about Go’s status, history, and future. “Go has indeed become the language of cloud infrastructure,” says Rob. Evrone ???? What's Coming in Go 1.15 — This presentation covers all the major sections: tooling, performance, API changes, and the Big Ones, like the aforementioned smaller binaries. Fingers crossed for a final release in August. Daniel Martí slidedeck Troubleshoot Golang App Issues with End-To-End Distributed Tracing — Trace requests across service boundaries to optimize bottlenecks by drilling into individual traces end-to-end with flame graphs. Correlate Golang traces with related logs and metrics for fast troubleshooting. Enhance performance with a free Datadog APM trial. Datadog APM sponsor Debugging Go Programs using Delve — The recent Go community survey showed that most Go developers use text-based logging (e.g. with fmt.Print()) to debug, but if you want to step things up a notch, this is a gentle intro to Delve. Naveen Ramanathan My Journey Optimizing The Go Compiler — Assel explains how a simple task evolved into a legitimate compiler optimization (aimed at 1.15) and proves we should all have a curious mind. Assel Meher The 'Ultimate' Go Study Guide — A large repository of code examples with comments and notes from Hoanh’s attempt at learning the language. If you pick up concepts well from straightforward examples, this is worth a look. Hoanh An ???? Jobs Software Engineer at HiPeople (Remote/Berlin) — Fast-moving startup (backed by top tier VCs) shaping the future of modern recruiting is looking for engineers who love working with Go. HiPeople Find a Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery ???? Articles & Tutorials Making a Multiplayer Game with Go and gRPC — Started as a (somewhat ambitious) project to learn Go, Sam walks us through the algorithms, design decisions, mistakes, and where Go helped and hurt the game. Samuel Mortenson Documenting a Go GitHub Repo — Or, “How to Keep the README in Your GitHub Repo in Sync with Your Go Doc.” Eyal Posener The 5 Crucial PDF & Office Features For Corporate Apps in Pure Go — UniDoc develops pure Go libraries for managing PDF and Office files since 2016. Here are the features developers use the most. UniDoc sponsor ▶ Discussing Building Immediate Mode GUIs in Go — Elias Naur, creator of Gio, joins the popular Go podcast to discuss building GUI apps with Go, the pros and cons of immediate vs retained mode and examples of each. Go Time Podcast podcast The Creation of a Realtime Patient Monitoring System with Go and Vue in 3 Days — This is the Go content I am here for. Connecting with monitoring devices and leveraging Go’s strengths to create a helpful, distributed application. Great work. Kasun Vithanage Add It Up: Azure’s Go Problem — Here’s one takeaway from the Go Developer Survey. Of the major clouds, Azure is the one Go developers seem least enamored by. Lawrence E Hecht Why You Should Generally Be using the Latest Version of Go — No surprising arguments here. Chris Siebenmann ???? Code & Tools XLSX: A Library for Reading and Writing XLSX (Excel) Files — Got spreadsheets? Want to make spreadsheets? There’s a lot you can do with them here. Geoffrey J. Teale SQLBoiler: Generate a Go ORM Tailored to Your Database Schema — A long standing library that has now switched to modules. Volatile Technologies Inc. Decimal: Arbitrary-Precision Fixed-Point Decimal Numbers for Go — The library laments that it can only support decimal numbers with up to 2^38 digits after the decimal point so take care ???? Spring Engineering Beta Launch: Code Performance Profiling - Find & Fix Bottlenecks Blackfire sponsor Redigo: A Go Client for Redis — In related news, Redis 6.0 has just been released. Gary Burd ntp: Facebook's NTP Libraries — NTP stands for “Network Time Protocol”, if you were wondering. Basically, clock synchronization. Facebook Incubator grobotstxt: A Native Go Port of Google's Robots.txt Parser and Matcher Library — Now you can crawl your own site, just like Google does. Jim Smart A Compiler for a Small Custom Language Into x86-64 Assembly — One of those ‘labor of love’ type projects that you might enjoy poking around in. You won’t use this project directly, but you might be intrigued how to create a similar compiler for your own thing. Maurice Tollmien MIDAS: Microcluster-Based Detector of Anomalies in Edge Streams — A Go reimplementation of this C++ version. Steve Tan Liftbridge 1.0: Lightweight, Fault-Tolerant Message Streams — A server that implements a durable, replicated message log for the NATS messaging system. Liftbridge Full Article
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vi Bill Gates: Few countries will get 'A-grade' for coronavirus response By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 05:00:05 GMT The Microsoft billionaire says we find ourselves in uncharted territory with the coronavirus pandemic. Full Article
vi Coronavirus: Rising commercial PPE costs 'frustrating', says care home CEO By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:44:58 GMT The CEO of Methodist Homes says a secure supply chain from government would mean avoiding inflated prices. Full Article
vi Virus vaccine research 'enormously accelerated' By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 21:19:00 GMT A vaccine normally takes a decade to develop, but GSK and Sanofi want a viable coronavirus vaccine by the end of next year, GSK chief executive Emma Walmsley says. Full Article
vi Coronavirus will have "significant impact" on economy By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:44:47 GMT Chancellor Rishi Sunak has told reporters that Covid-19 will cause "hardship ahead". Full Article
vi Coronavirus: The unexpected items deemed 'essential' By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:07:31 GMT Cheese shops and gun stores are among the services still open in locked down places around the world. Full Article
vi Coronavirus: ‘Buying a round’ to thank NHS workers By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 23:05:01 GMT Social enterprise Brewgooder is helping people buy beers for those on the coronavirus front line. Full Article
vi Coronavirus: How a plus-size fashion retailer is adapting By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:55:43 GMT Ojoma Idegwu, founder of plus-size fashion label Dear Curves, explains how she is adapting to coronavirus. Full Article
vi Coronavirus: UK chancellor on new microloan scheme for small businesses By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:30:38 GMT Firms will be able to borrow up to £50,000, which will be interest free for the first year. Full Article
vi Coronavirus: Pint delivery service to challenge Belfast ban By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 23:11:06 GMT A pub delivering Guinness to people's homes during lockdown says it was operating within the law. Full Article
vi Coronavirus: Should maternity and paternity leave be extended? By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 23:22:29 GMT A petition calling for maternity leave to be extended due to coronavirus has attracted many signatures. Full Article
vi Chancellor: 'Tough times' as coronavirus affects UK economy By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:48:21 GMT The chancellor says there have already been "tough times" as the coronavirus outbreak has an impact on the UK and warns "there will be more to come". Full Article
vi Coronavirus: 'My cafe's going bust before it's even opened' By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 23:04:30 GMT A car factory worker turned cafe owner explains how coronavirus is affecting his business dream. Full Article
vi Coronavirus: Aer Lingus flight had 'no social distancing' says passenger By www.bbc.co.uk Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 14:54:07 GMT Sean Mallon's photos of an Aer Lingus Belfast-Heathrow flight showed passengers sitting close together. Full Article
