August 31st, 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.
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
The quick summary, the IEEE 754 standard for rounding says that you should “round half to even” (e.g. 11.5 rounds to 12, and 12.5 rounds to 12).
Full Article
Postleaf
An open-source blogging platform for the design-conscious. The best feature is inline editing, which LaViska believes is the future of content management.
Full Article
Hunting for Great Names in Programming
Sometimes it is really hard to find a name that fits, but it’s worth doing the research to find that almost-perfect name.
Full Article
I Peeked Into my Node_Modules Directory
Dependencies, especially in the node community, can have some surprises.
Full Article
Ntfy
A nifty utility for sending mobile/desktop push notifications from the comfort of your terminal.
View Repository
Dealing with UX Disagreements
Your top priority as a UX designer must be addressing the “user” part of “user experience”. If your design process isn’t driven by user needs, your product’s success will be limited.
Full Article
August 24th, 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.
Practical SVG
This is the coolest router we’ve ever seen … and it’s not for your wireless network.
Visit Site
Product Pages
Need inspiration for your next website marketing a product? Here is a curated list of the best product pages.
Visit Site
Redesign vs. Realign
This article talks about the difference between redesigning, which is focusing purely on the aesthetic issues while ignoring the root of the problem, and realigning, or purpose-driven design.
Full Article
Level up Your Security in Rails
A good overview of a few security vulnerabilities and what we can do about them in rails.
Full Article
Thyme
Track which applications you use and for how much time you use them.
View Repository
Hack Physics and JavaScript
A great intro/refresher to vectors, acceleration, and velocity with Javascript and an HTML canvas element.
Full Article
Reimagining Single-Page Applications With Progressive Enhancement
A good look at some of the ways to do a single-page application without relying on large Javascript frameworks.
Full Article
Apple’s Update Subscription Model
Check out the changes for iOS subscription apps. After a subscriber accumulates one year of paid service, your revenue increases from 70% to 85% of the subscription price. This is some good information for those of you looking into how to monetize your application.
Full Article
August 17th, 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.
Practical SVG
Great article on how to work with SVG sizing.
Full Article
Monitor your site with Google Docs
A lot of website monitoring tools use the freemium model. Use Google Sheets to create your own website monitoring tool for free.
Full Article
RSpec Expectations Cheat Sheet
A comprehensive cheat sheet for RSpec expectations.
Full Article
Picking SQL or NoSQL
An opinion piece on how to choose the database(s) for your application. This piece focuses on using “the right tool for the job”, even if that means using multiple types of databases for one application.
Full Article
10 Tools from Design to Development
Some tools to help your work flow from design to development.
Full Article
August 8th, 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.
Dummi
A handy tool for creating dummy data files for testing.
Visit Site
You’re Doing DevOps Wrong
Some helpful tips for getting a proper devops process in place early on in the product lifecycle.
Full Article
Basic Web Design
Basic Web Design/css in 4 minutes.
Full Article
Graal & Truffle
Disruptive innovation in the works that could change programming language design.
Full Article
Tomnomnom
This is a tool that makes it easy to search through JSON documents, in a grep-like fashion.
View Repository
React.js Best Practices
An opinion on best up-to-date practices for React in 2016, as well as useful libraries to make your #reactlife easier.
Full Article
Use RxJS with React
Rxjs, and the reactive programming paradigm has been gaining momentum. This article helps explain how to turn react components into reactive components.
Full Article
Home Dial
A pretty smooth dial interface component. Snaps to the nearest value and has momentum.
View Site