Coder Weekly has been running for over a year. Over that time, the subscriber base has continued to grow (now approaching 5,000), and the format and content has changed somewhat. I thought that this would be a good point to look back at what’s worked, and describe some changes that will be made to Coder Weekly in the near future.

Link submissions

I’ve had many tips submitted for content over the past year. If I recall correctly, all of them have been used because they’ve all been of high quality. I encourage people to keep submitting tips as there’s always something I will miss!

One thing to bear in mind when submitting tips is that a high proportion of readers are on mobile devices.

Job postings

This week I’ll be accepting the first job postings to Coder Weekly. This is a trial to see how things work – in particular, I want make sure it provides value both to subscribers, and those submitting job postings. Suffice it to say that there will be no agency or recruiter postings.

See here for details about submitting jobs.

Book reviews and affiliates

I’ve featured many books over the last year. There are two upcoming changes to this:

• I plan to actively start reviewing books and publish the reviews either here or on the Coder Weekly website.
• The links to these books (on the site and in the newsletter) may use an affiliate scheme, if one exists, for the vendor.

Aside from my time, there are material costs to running a newsletter. The affiliate links are to offset this.

Listed books will be read by me, and I will only list the best stuff. I don’t want to waste my time or anyone else’s with mediocre books.

Book tips are great too!

Let me know what you think

Comments are always welcome: you can reach me at , or on twitter.