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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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Perfect Mac/Ruby Developer Setup

Posted on July 8, 2011 by jancel

I reformat my Macbook Pro with a clean install often because I’m always looking for the perfect development setup. I use several different Ruby environments simultaneously and this can be troublesome with some of my past setups, but this time … Continue reading →

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