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Welcome to the braindump of Patrick Lenz — software developer, author, and photographer.

I blog here and here. I publish photos here and here. I work here and here. I use this, this and that. I drive this, this and that. I can be reached here.

Archive

Apr
30th

Thu

Keepin' Sphinx Indexes Fresh Brandon Keepers on using ThinkingSphinx’ delayed_job integration for delta-indexing your records quickly and easily.

Apr
22nd

Wed

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090421 released I’ve been bitten by that infinite loop bug on freshmeat.net. If you have, too, it’s time to upgrade.

Mar
6th

Fri

jQuery UI 1.7 Final release of the version formerly intended to be called 1.6. From the (currently unavailable) blog: “New domain, New CSS Framework & Dramatic Updates to Controls”

Mar
5th

Thu

Rails 2.3 RC2 “Final stop before release”. Release notes are here.

vlad version 1.3.0 With the recent demise of maintainership for Capistrano, Vlad definitely got a little more interesting. Especially now that it ships with Git support.

Mar
3rd

Tue

Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3 I’ve been using the release candidate build of LR 2.3 for a while in an attempt to fix a beachballing error with gradient adjustments. No luck though.

Mar
1st

Sun

Phusion Passenger 2.1.1 (beta) Rails 2.3 support and full mod_rewrite compatibility among a huge pile of other fixes and improvements.

Feb
25th

Wed

Net::SSH, Capistrano, and Saying Goodbye Jamis Buck ceases development and maintainership of two core Rails-related projects. Interesting times.

Feb
21st

Sat

jQuery 1.3.2 Released Maintenance release with more or less behind the scenes fixes and speedups.

Feb
14th

Sat

More Disk Space for All! GitHub doubles disk space.