Jamie lives in a large city in the midwest. He's a copywriter for an advertising firm, and he's good at it. He's also good at thinking of reasons why he ought to be happy with his life. He has health insurance, and now savings. A lot of his friends have neither.…

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Using SQL databases is not an impediment to doing DevOps. Automating schema management and a little developer discipline enables more vigorous and repeatable testing, shorter release cycles, and reduced business risk. When you can confidently deploy new releases…

In this tutorial we’ll discuss the ideas and concepts behind rendering water and then talk through some demo code.

Ads for a petition to stop a mosque being built in Kent appeared on Facebook over the Christmas period.

‘Success’ is at the heart of our idea of wellbeing, but evidence tells a different tale, argues Paul Dolan in this extract from his new book

Confidential memo promptly leaked.

Permitting pot is one thing; promoting its use is another.

Apple’s management made three errors that led to the restatement of revenue; those errors, though, suggest that the company’s business is in better shape than it appears.

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Whether your interest is in winning arguments online or considerably deepening your knowledge of world cultural and intellectual history, you will be very well-served by at least one government agency from now into the foreseeable future.

The idea first lit up Dennis Whyte when he was in high school, in the remote reaches of Saskatchewan, Canada, in the 1980s. He wrote a term paper on how scientists were trying to harness fusion (the…

The personal website and blog of Daniel Long Sockwell, a lawyer-turned-programmer with an interest in web development, open source, and making things as simple as possible.