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The Radar: September 14, 2016

September 14th, 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.

Boosting Your Rates with Psychologically Validated Principles

Interesting read on the psychology behind different marketing and conversion techniques.

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The Death of Localhost and the Rise of Cloud Development

Cloud IDEs are gaining favor among developers.

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Web Developer Checklist

A checklist for Web Developers to go through before deploying a site.

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Awesome Design

A fairly comprehensive list of resources for UI/UX designers.

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Rust

A language that boasts to “write like Python, but run like C”.

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Idris

A compiled, functional programming language. The syntax is similar to Haskell, although it uses eager evaluation instead of lazy evaluation.

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Is your Project Pointless?

Here are three questions to ask yourself to decide. Don’t focus on your budget or what you want to build. Instead, focus on the problem you are trying to solve.

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