FinTech & Design Reads Issue 5
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Four Technologies That Will Revolutionize Financial Services The next billion connected people – they will have a voice they don’t have now A new wave of technological change is right beyond the next hill, really in the next couple of years. Its…
Quandl Announces New Tool for Dataset Uploading Quandl, a company that launched a search engine for numerical data in January 2013, plans on introducing a brand new uploading tool in early 2014 which will make it possible for users to upload their…
An explanation of Google’s confusing stock split Google is poised to split its stock using an unusual method aimed at keeping co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in control of the Internet’s most powerful company.
API Providers Urged to Agree on an Open API Definition In a keynote at this morning’s program of the API Strategy and Practice conference in Amsterdam, Webshell founder Mehdi Medjaoui urged API providers to “take a leap of faith” and…
A Google X Co-Founder’s Ingenious Technique To Rapid Prototype Socially Responsible Products Two years ago, I cofounded a company called Soma. We create and sell a sustainable glass water filter that has received accolades for its innovative design. We sought out to create something…
Responsive Web Design in 2014: Stats and Trends How widespread are today’s responsive designs among the world’s most visited websites? What are the most common site widths and font sizes? In codeitdown, we conducted a small case study that…
75 Essential Cheat Sheets for Designers and Programmers Programming is not an easy job, and requires a lot of concentration and expert reference. You might get struck anytime, anywhere in the code, where you can’t work out the things, but need to…
Agile Is Dead (Long Live Agility) Thirteen years ago, I was among seventeen middle-aged white guys who gathered at Snowbird, Utah. We were there because we shared common beliefs about developing software, and we wondered if there was…
Datawrapper An open source tool helping anyone to create simple, correct and embeddable charts in minutes.
How Americans Die The mortality rate fell by about 17 percent from 1968 through 2010, years for which we have detailed data. Almost all of this…
Cache Invalidation Strategies With Varnish Cache Phil Karlton once said, “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” This article is about the harder of these two: cache invalidation.
Instant API lets developers create commercial APIs in minutes, rather than weeks or months The API has become a core part of the modern internet, and it seems that more companies than ever now offer third-party developers access to their data and services. While there are plenty of…
Hybrid sweet spot: Native navigation, web content When we launched the iPhone version of Basecamp in February of last year, it was after many rounds of experimentation on the architectural direction. The default route suggested by most when we got…
Leaked Pictures Hint at Gmail Redesign Leaked screenshots of a new web interface for Gmail reveal that Google may be quietly testing a major design overhaul. The pictures, which were first published on Geek, show a collection of potential…
10 Articles Every Programmer Must Read Being a Java programmer and Software developer, I have learned a lot from articles titled as What Every Programmer Should Know about ….. , they tend to give a lot of useful and in-depth…