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Fusion Radar: April 8, 2015

April 9th, 2015 - 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.

Dropplets

In terms of simplicity, it’s hard to beat Dropplets for a stripped-down, bare-bones blogging platform. It doesn’t even require a database.

Dropplets

Vector

Netflix released some on-host performance monitoring software called “Vector.” It’s a client-side application based in d3 and angular, and presents data gathered by another piece of software called “Performance Co-Pilot (PCP).”

Vector

Continuations in Ruby

Continuations allow you to persist the state of your stack and registers to the heap. This can be used for a variety of things: program control flow, implementing tail-recursion in languages that do not offer proper tail-recursion, and so on.

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Oyster

Oyster is a subscription service for reading books on your smart devices.

Oyster

Google Pac Man

You’ve likely already played Pac Man on Google Maps. Wired Magazine presents their 15 top locations for playing the game.

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Firefox’s BroadcastChannel

The BroadcastChannel API now works in Firefox Developer Edition. It allows an app to send alerts to other browser tabs that have the same app open. So, if you have multiple tabs for some app open, and you log in in one of the tabs, it can update the other tabs (without refreshing) to show that you are logged in there as well.

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Galen Framework

Galen helps automate the testing of front-end look and feel.

Galen Framework

Codie on Indiegogo

We’re fans of anything that results in more developers in the world, even if it means starting them young. Codie is a robotic toy that helps kids learn how to program. Buy one for your kid; we’ll keep an eye out for their resume.

Codie