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Fusion Radar: November 26, 2014

November 26th, 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.

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.

Full article

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.

Full article

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.

Full article

Speeding up Capybara Tests

You may need to blacklist some external URLs in order to speed up your Capybara test performance.

Full article

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