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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

Jun
17th
Tue
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Easy and flexible breadcrumbs for Rails (via Riding Rails.)
Jun
13th
Fri
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Capistrano 2.4.0 Git deployments finally work out of the box again. (cf. this thread on Google Groups.) Also comes with an improved sudo helper, upload improvements, logging and hooks improvements.
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Google: Our agreement to provide ad technology to Yahoo!

Yowza. Amazing.

As someone who has implemented a Yahoo! Ads API consumer I can totally assert this is a Good Thing.
Jun
12th
Thu
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A Concise Guide to Using Thinking Sphinx Pat Allan’s updated introductory article on his Thinking Sphinx Rails search plugin. Not using sphinx as your search engine? You really should.
Jun
11th
Wed
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1Password and Safari 4

Hint from the 1Password Forum to get 1Password to work with the Safari 4 Developer Preview.

Update: Version 2.6.5b3 is out coming with that very fix.
Jun
6th
Fri
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Hahlo MenuExtra Using Fluid That’s awesome.
Jun
1st
Sun
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Rails 2.1 Time zones, dirty, caching, gem dependencies, caching, etc.
May
27th
Tue
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Google AJAX Libraries API Let Google serve your favorite JavaScript framework and handle the heavy lifting of caching and expiration for you. (Via mir.aculo.us.)
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RSpec-1.1.4 Now with hash_including and stub_model goodness.
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Now Available: Strobist Lighting DVDs