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Fusion Radar: June 6, 2014

June 4th, 2014 - by marissa - 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.

Top 10 Productivity Lessons

Recent graduate Chris Bailey dedicated the past year of his life to learning everything he could regarding productivity. Linked below is an article detailing the top 10 things he learned–including the three ingredients for daily productivity, how working too hard or too much shatters productivity, and his belief that the best way to feel motivated is to know why you want to get something done.

The Top 10 Lessons Learned After 365 Days Testing Productivity Theories

Drop

Drop is an iPad-connected kitchen scale designed to help bakers consistently produce quality baked goods. It can rescale quantities, offer substitutions, and can integrate with other Apple devices to update your shopping list or remind you of kitchen timers going off.

Drop

Runnable

The founders of Runnable noticed that rather than writing code from scratch, they spent most of their time combining open-source code, third-party APIs, and other bits and pieces from around the web to create new products and software. Runnable, then, is a site that combines libraries, APIs, SDKs, and other resources in the hopes of creating a central hub for easily finding and implementing reusable code.

Runnable

Common Mistakes that Rails Programmers Make

Rails is an open source framework that depends on users following standard conventions (for naming, code structure, etc.) in order to execute properly. This article linked below looks at 10 common mistakes developers make while using Rails. Some of these include putting too much logic in the view/controller/model, using too many gems, and ignoring log files.

10 Most Common Mistakes that Rails Programmers Make

Bullet Journal

Bullet Journal is a method of journaling called “Rapid Logging.” This process is meant to help you quickly capture and quantify all the different types of information you have to address on a daily basis. Put simply, it helps you figure out what’s important and what isn’t worth your time.

Bullet Journal

Apple’s WWDC 2014

Apple’s WWDC 2014 took place a few days ago, on 6/2. Dan LaCivita, president of digital creative agency Firstborn, wrote an article (linked below) detailing some of the most impactful new features.

Three Things Brands and Agencies Should Know from Apple’s WWDC 2014

How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know is Her Name

There are a number of sites devoted to exploring and tracking the popularity of baby names throughout the years–but not many that focus on the age of living Americans with a given name. FiveThirtyEight noticed the lack of that particular information, and used the Social Security Administration’s baby name database and its actuarial tables to produce it. They noticed that girls’ names tend to cycle in and out of fashion more quickly than boys’ names, and developed a series of interesting graphs with the median and interquartile range of the ages of people with different names.

How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know is Her Name

A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through

MIT Media Lab recently unveiled their concept of futuristic UIs–and it has more to do with physical atoms than it does with digital pixels. They call this new “programmable matter” the inFORM, and it has the potential to let people remotely manipulate physical blueprints, interact with real-world objects, or even hold hands across the world.

MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch

Supercook

Supercook is a website that helps you utilize the ingredients you already have in your kitchen. You just type in your ingredients (or select some from their list of commonly-used foods), and Supercook sifts through hundreds of recipes to produce meals that you can make using the food you have in the house.

Supercook