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PBX My name is Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using as much open source software as possible. From September to June I teach web design and other important non-photographic professional skills to photographers. In the '90s I wrote technology commentary and reviews for magazines, newspapers, and web publications, including Wired, Salon.com, FamilyPC, the late lamented Web Review, and the Chicago Tribune. Feel free to email me.

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Django Docs in Plucker format

Update: 2005-11-13: A lot has happened with Django in the past two weeks; here's an updated Plucker version of the docs (337K) for the 74 people who downloaded the last one. To judge by the change in file sizes, Django is sixty-two percent more documented than before! Or somebody slipped one of Wilson's desktop backgrounds in there. I'm just going to keep popping this post to the top when I have a new version, rather than allowing outdated stuff to sit around.
Update 2005-12-10: Posted a new version (375K). Someday I'll make this a daily cronjob...
Update 2005-12-29: Updated again (398K).
Update 2006-11-16: Now (finally) a nightly cronjob -- see the announcement post for more or just grab it now: http://dpaste.com/static/djangodocs.pdb

Original post, 2005-10-30: Along the lines of the Python Library Reference in Plucker format I posted in July, here's the latest Django documentation (208KB). (Plucker is an offline reader for the Palm.) I know using a non-WiFi, non-cellphone PDA is terribly retro these days, but that's the kind of old-world guy I am.

Thursday, December 29th, 2005
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• Comment from tabo, 10 months later

I have an old palm too, and I didn't know about Plucker! Thank you a lot for this.

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