The Objective Blog

Keep up with what we're thinking, reading, and doing.

The Radar: December 2, 2015

December 2nd, 2015 - by Michelle Mann - Salt Lake City, Utah

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.

Startup Playbook

Sage advice for startups from some of the best advisors in the business.

Full Article

Layers CSS

A lightweight CSS framework for building fluid layouts.

View Framework

Building an Enterprise CSS Framework

How salesforce approached redoing their CSS framework.

Full Article

Hedis

The Hedis project is basically a mediator between your application and your database. It caches results from database queries in an attempt to improve performance.

Full Article

Object-Oriented vs. Functional Programming

Quick read that, despite its name, goes over the common patterns shared by both object oriented and functional programming styles.

Read Book

Ruby Tricks, Idiomatic Ruby, Refactorings and Best Practices

A cool list of tricks and tips for using Ruby.

Full List

Freehold

Freehold is an app that provides a web interface for viewing files on a server. You can install it on any server and it’ll give you a URL to use for viewing those files.

View Demo

Static Website Generators Reviewed

A review of Jekyll, Middleman, Roots, and Hugo. Goes over templating engine, asset pipeline, content model and extending.

Full Article