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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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Personally, I Do Care

Posted on February 22, 2012 by jancel

Here’s to you coders. I’m not sure why I do it, but I take my code personally. I try to own everything I do. I feel that owning our product would be best if we all worked this way. When … Continue reading →

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Google’s New Gmail Look

Posted on November 2, 2011 by jancel

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m certainly in disgust at Google’s failing attempt to bring Gmail to Google+ style. It looks horrible and it makes me really sick (Kind of like some motion sickness I think, never had … Continue reading →

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