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Keepin' Sphinx Indexes Fresh

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:27:19 +0200

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

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090421 released

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:50:10 +0200

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.

jQuery UI 1.7

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:52:52 +0100

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”

Rails 2.3 RC2

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:10:25 +0100

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

vlad version 1.3.0

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:10:38 +0100

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.

Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:19:39 +0100

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.

Phusion Passenger 2.1.1 (beta)

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:01:46 +0100

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

Net::SSH, Capistrano, and Saying Goodbye

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:01:16 +0100

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

jQuery 1.3.2 Released

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:25:05 +0100

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

More Disk Space for All!

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:52:47 +0100

More Disk Space for All!: GitHub doubles disk space.

Rails 2.3.0 RC1

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:19:18 +0100

Rails 2.3.0 RC1: Massive changes under the hood: Templates for skeleton Rails apps, the return of Engines, the move to the Rack middleware, Metal to write super fast pieces of optimized logic that routes around Action Controller, Nested forms (see previous link). It’s a Release Candidate, so take it for a spin!

Nested Object Forms coming to Rails 2.3

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:45:22 +0100

Nested Object Forms coming to Rails 2.3: Ryan Daigle with the nitty gritty on using multi-model forms upcoming in Rails 2.3.

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090201 released

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:49:55 +0100

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090201 released: Minor bugfixes. Mainly trouble with the readline library has been fixed.

Smusher: Lossless and Recursive Image Optimizer

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:55:29 +0100

Smusher: Lossless and Recursive Image Optimizer: Neat idea.

jQuery 1.3

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:54:22 +0100

jQuery 1.3:

Big new features are a sizzlin’ hot CSS selector engine, live event delegation, simplified event handling, lightning-fast HTML appending, super-quick position calculation and feature detection (avoiding browser detection).

They also have a new API browser at api.jquery.com, which is most welcome.

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090113

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:21:00 +0100

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090113: Now comes with tcmalloc support (copy-on-write optimizations) on 64-bit platforms and ported RubyProf GC patches for improved debugging and profiling abilities. Sponsored in part by yours truly.

rspec-1.1.12

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:39:49 +0100

rspec-1.1.12: This concise syntax really is quite a feature.

DebGem, the RubyGem-to-Apt conversion service

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:27:59 +0100

DebGem, the RubyGem-to-Apt conversion service: Interesting announcement from Phusion. They host a repository of automatically converted RubyGems into apt-get installable packages for Debian and Ubuntu. Currently carrying some 20.000 packages.

jQuery UI 1.6rc4

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:15:53 +0100

jQuery UI 1.6rc4: New release candidate of the upcoming jQuery UI 1.6 release featuring changes to the datepicker and slider, an overhaul to the drag and drop functionality, a new CSS framework and Themeroller v2.

Mephisto security advisory

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:32:18 +0100

Mephisto security advisory: New release is compatible with Rails 2.2.2 and comes with a couple measures against XSS and CSRF attacks. Go upgrade!