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Fusion Radar: November 19, 2014

November 19th, 2014 - by Objective - Salt Lake City, Utah

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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