Author Archives: jancel

About jancel

A passionate web developer in St. Louis. Living on the edge with Rails, HTML5, CSS3 and any interesting libraries around. I love to spend time with the family, cook, develop web applications and play with our dragons. When I have nothing else to do, I socialize via twitter (@jancel) and facebook.

Jalepeno Tunafish

Posted on May 6, 2012 by jancel

This recipe is packed with protein and very fast to throw together.  I like this recipe after a good walk/run, though I find this digests really fast and probably goes best with some carbohydrates for me.  Some crackers or one … Continue reading →

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Tmux is Awesome

Posted on April 22, 2012 by jancel

Just wanted to drop a line to the tmux crew and say thank you.  I know terminal multiplexing has been around for a while, but never really caught the full benefit until tmux and the book over at The Pragmatic … Continue reading →

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Ruby Benchmark String Concat versus Array Join

Posted on March 23, 2012 by jancel

I was reading about string concat in ruby and found the need to do some.  before I jumped in, I ran a benchmark that was fairly surprising.  Figured I’d share. require ‘benchmark’ n = 2000000 Benchmark.bm do |x| str1 = … Continue reading →

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Scss Sass Opacity Plugin

Posted on March 5, 2012 by jancel

I was looking for a good cross-browser plugin up front.  Here’s what I found, which is a good sass mixin for opacity.  There is probably a syntax converter, but I don’t think(?) I have one installed.  I was looking for … Continue reading →

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