Reading List
- Making the Switch Away from Icon Fonts to SVG: Converting Font Icons to SVG – by Sara Soueidan
- A Revised Subgrid Specification by Rachel Andrew
- Updating Our Prefixing Policy – No new
-webkit-woo-shiny
prefixes. New features will be behind a runtime flag. Yay! - Payment Request API (Draft) “describes a web API to allow merchants (i.e. web sites selling physical or digital goods) to easily accept payments from different payment methods with minimal integration. User agents (e.g. browsers) will facilitate the payment flow between merchant and user.”
- Indonesia wants farmers and fishermen to join the ecommerce revolution – “the target is for ecommerce to grow to the point that people spend US$130 billion online in 2020.”
- A faster FT.com “How slow websites damage publishers revenue”. Given FT site is ad-supported, I wonder how much ad revenue is lost by the ads themselves slowing down the site?
- Reasons to not like ads by Stuart Langridge
- Full Frontal 2016 Call for Papers
- Being A Developer After 40 – I especially relate to “Forget The Hype, “Choose your galaxy wisely” and “Teach”
- $10 router blamed in Bangladesh bank hack – “The bank had no firewall and used second-hand routers that cost $10 to connect to global financial networks.”
- Job spec: Opera Mini Product Director – reckon you can direct a product used by a quarter of a billion people? Then apply here, and tell them I sent you (so I get some Brownie points).
The wider reading list fits the specification of your course. As you enter the library you will be faced with tens, even hundreds of thousands of books – each one painstakingly catalogued according to subject area, theme, topic, title, author. Before sifting through this maze of a fire hazard, spare a thought for your reading list being exactly the information you need – curated well before you joined the course by your long suffering teacher