Keeping up with technology is a lot of work. Luckily, we enjoy wading through the noise just to find the gems of awesomeness sprinkled throughout. Fusion 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 Agency Fusion.
The Word “Just”
We have a saying around the office: “Just is a dirty word.” One of these days we’re going to write a post about why this is true, but in the meantime the folks at A List Apart have an article which touches on this same subject.
The Gender Gap in Tech
Wired is featuring an article about some of the gender problems in the tech industry, particularly when it comes to getting funding.
The Simpsons in CSS
If you aren’t familiar with CSS, it stands for Cascading Style Sheets, and developers use it to help control style, positioning, and appearance of elements in HTML. Take our word for it that it’s very impressive to render the Simpsons characters using nothing but CSS.
Devices in CSS
While we’re on the subject of CSS, someone else has rendered 8 different mobile devices using pure CSS. Also impressive.
Behind the Scenes: Google Code Search
Although Google has now retired its Code Search product, this interesting write up from a developer who helped create Code Search is a technical but informative read.
OpenGrok
Another code search find: OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine for Mercurial, Git, SCCS, RCS, CVS, Subversion, and more.
Navdy
Hands-free, with a heads-up display projected in front of you, Navdy looks like a great solution for using your mobile phone while driving safely.
Responsive Logos
Most responsive websites keep the logo fairly static, or at best, scale it down a bit. Some dude named Joe Harrison created an experimental demonstration of responsive logos. Resize your browser to see the logos adjust to your browser’s changing viewport size.
Facebook Flux
We use MVC design patterns and frameworks on a regular basis. MVC isn’t a silver bullet for all app development needs, though, and Facebook has open-sourced Flux which offers an alternative to the model-view-controller paradigm of MVC.
Office Lovin’
If you’ve been to our downtown SLC office you know we value a great office space. This site highlights other great tech office spaces if you’re looking for some inspiration.
Terraform
If you’ve used Vagrant before, you’ll be interested in reading about HashiCorp’s newly-released product, Terraform. Terraform lets you define and build infrastructure programmatically from multiple service providers like AWS, Heroku, and more.
Manything
Use any iOS device as a home security camera.