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.
Firefox Developer Edition
Mozilla created a browser specifically for web developers with features like multi-browser debugging, responsive design view, and more.
Firefox Developer Edition
Protected Method Visibility in Ruby
If you’re unsure whether to use protected method visibility in Ruby, this article is for you.
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Badassify Your Terminal
For terminal users, this article is a must-read. It details how to install zsh and plugins for syntax highlighting and extra auto-completion in the terminal.
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Why Google Split Inbox from Gmail
This article covers the battle of feature parity, unused features, and how engineers usually aren’t the target users. Instead of getting rid of Gmail or trying to build Inbox on top of it, Google decided to build the new product in parallel in hopes of making everyone happy.
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Speeding up Capybara Tests
You may need to blacklist some external URLs in order to speed up your Capybara test performance.
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IEVMS
Instructions and command line tools for downloading Windows VMs for Virtual box. Each comes with a specified version of IE (6-11). You can get them all, specify one or more… and if you need your disk space back, you just `rm -rf` your `~/.ievms` directory.
IEVMS
Animated GIFs of Your Screen
LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to an animated .GIF, which is great for support, testing, etc.
LICEcap
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.
.Net Goes Open Source
Microsoft is open sourcing the .Net framework in an attempt to woo developers and make their technology stack more cross-platform.
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Stop Breaking the Web
From the article’s author: “This article is where I rant about how we are breaking the web, the not-immediately-obvious reasons why we should stop doing this, and how not breaking the web would be a great thing.”
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Ad Slogans
A look at advertising slogans for some popular brands, and how those slogans have changed over the years.
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Charlie
Assuming you’re trying to get to know someone who has a fairly public profile, Charlie might come in handy.
Charlie App
jQuery DotDotDot
This jQuery plugin makes it easy to dynamically add an ellipsis to content that is too long for its HTML container.
DotDotDot
Weather System
Uniform created three different data-powered devices which react to weather conditions.
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Smarter Link Underlines
If you hate having a link’s underline cross the characters’ descenders, this article is for you.
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Tracking Screen Sizes
Set up your Google Analytics to give you better insight into your visitors’ screen sizes and behavior.
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Sublime Text Plugins
Make Sublime Text extra powerful by adding autocomplete, Git commands, a color-picker, and much more.
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The Spam Backstory
Learn a bit of the backstory behind Russia becoming such a spam powerhouse.
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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.
SumAll
SumAll is a social media analytics and business dashboard. All in one place, all for free.
SumAll
3D Worlds With CSS
Keith Clark has done impressive work showcasing what is possible with CSS 3D transforms.
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Failed Startup Post-Mortems
This is excellent information. Very few startups achieve massive success, many more are only moderately successful, and the majority ultimately fail. “Startup Fever” often needs a dose of reality, and this post delivers with more than 100 post-mortems from failed startups.
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Server Monitoring
If you’re responsible for servers (or a cloud environment) you’ll find this blog post helpful. The team at Bitly lists 10 things they monitor to make sure their production environment is healthy.
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PGWeb
If you use PostgreSQL, take a look at PGWeb, a web-based database browser.
PGWeb
VW Find a Match
Volkswagon launched a new site which features a new “matchmaking” capability. Choose the model and options you want and the site tells you how many vehicles match your parameters at the local dealership(s). This is impressive.
VW Site
Support Details
Troubleshooting a website often requires getting some details from the person who’s experiencing a problem with the site. Support Details aims to make that easier.
Support Details