Keeping up with design and technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. The Radar is our gift to you, Current or Potential Client, so that you can enjoy all of the awesome without any of the drudgery. Unwrap it each week, and know that you’re loved by the geeks and pixel-pushers at Objective.
The Secret Weapon of Ruby and Rails Speed
The rack-mini-profiler gem is a Ruby gem that’s meant to be used in production, and will profile your app’s memory, CPU, and SQL queries.
Replenish Your Creative Mind
Creative Days can help refresh teams while learning new things.
Ramda
Ramda is a practical functional library for Javascript programmers. One of many libraries, but most competitors offer a toolbag of functions where Ramda’s stated goal is to provide a functional API that respects immutability.
Back to the Basics
Have a smartphone, but don’t feel like it makes you smart? Maybe this should be your next phone. </distractions>
Disney’s Hyperion Renderer
This is an interesting article about 3d rendering explained by Disney animators.
Replaced by Robots?
In the near future, many jobs will be replaced by automation, and men will be hit harder than women.
Design History 101
Here’s a behind the scenes look at design/client interaction of Saul Bass and Stanley Kubrick over The Shining poster designs.
Pretty Diff
This program shows you the differences between two text files (either code or just plain text).
Why Impact?
A brief history of both the typeface, Impact, and why it is used for all memes.
Elastic Terrain
Make the terrain jiggle like jello. Not sure the usefulness of these maps, but they are sure fun to play with.