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Quick way to test many values in ruby

String concatenation in ruby

I searched the internet for a gedit plugin that would allow me to press a key and jump (navigate) to the file where a ruby class is defined. I couldn’t find one so I wrote one (I know about Geany but I couldn’t find that functionality there either...

Today I was profiling an application. The timings pointed to a piece of code that executed a query using LINQ. I opened an SQL profiler and saw what queries were performed. Here they are: SELECT [t3].[value] AS [Key] FROM ( SELECT ( SELECT [t2].[Role

Eclipse plugin to exclude svn and cvs folders in text search

Again, Sergio, a friend of mine, came up with a need: to sort Eclipse Java proposals by hierarchy. What that means is that if you have a type C < B < A (where < means subclass of), first C‘s methods will be shown, then B’s methods and finally A’s methods...

Black theme for Eclipse

Neyun: an awesome way to visualize your content

Indentation also means something else...

I had to fix a problem in a Silverlight application we are building. The problem was that it’s CPU usage was constant, between %20 and %40, and never stopped. I won’t go into the details of how I discovered the problem, but I’ll tell you what the problem...