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The Radar: May 25, 2016

May 25th, 2016 - 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.

DuckRails

DuckRails is a development tool that allows you to mock up API end points quickly.

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Blisk Browser

The Blisk browser claims to be developed specifically for web developers who want to ensure sites work correctly on other platforms and in all resolutions. It’s only available for Windows currently.

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Center in CSS

Fill out this form and you’ll get the styles to align your content.

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Why we Built XStream

A discussion of why Cycle.js needed a new reactive framework (xstream), and how it differs from rx.js.

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Marmelab/Restful.js

A JavaScript library for interacting with RESTful resources.

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Software Engineering Daily

A daily podcast about writing software and various new tools. The May 9th episode talks with someone who works on Khan Academy and discusses how they use React for their site, something that we’ve been talking a lot about at the office lately.

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How to Take Charge of a UX Kickoff Meeting

This article outlines how to have a successful kickoff meeting in order to establish your expertise in the field. It starts by asking the right questions, and taking charge of the conversation. The most important part is setting up expectations with your client.

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The Radar: May 4, 2016

May 4th, 2016 - 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.

Meaningful CSS

An interesting article on how to improve your CSS, by starting with semantic, meaningful markup. It also goes through a comparison of common vs. optimal form markup.

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Sqreen

Sqreen provides a security service that plugs into Ruby on Rails applications to inspect, track and fix security holes.

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Improve Your Designs

When it comes to design, consistency is key. The role of a designer is to find patterns and assign key indicators to create these relationships.

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Prototypal

An article that explains the workings of JavaScript’s prototype-based object oriented programming.

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Node 6 Features

Some of the best new language features in Node version 6.

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An Inferior Paradigm

The creator of Cycle.js (cycle.js.org) discusses why react + redux is an inferior paradigm. He clarifies how React/Redux is not the best in the “Paradigm ergonomy” aspect.

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Learn the World Quiz

A fun quiz to test your world knowledge

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