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PBX I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. In the '90s I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote technology commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, and lots of little places you've never heard of. Feel free to email me.

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I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.

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Built using Django, served by Apache and mod_wsgi. The database is SQLite. The operating system is FreeBSD, on a VPS hosted at Johncompanies.com. Comment-spam protection by Akismet. Vintage topo imagery from the Maptech archive. The markup engine is Markdown.

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CodeZoo

O'Reilly has been running CodeZoo for a few months now. Today they announced CodeZoo subsites for Python and Ruby. CodeZoo is very slick -- you can track changes to a particular app or component via a special RSS feed, for instance. Downloads are fast and simple, even for Sourceforge-hosted projects. And they've got this new thing called DOAP (why do you think they call it DOAP?), an XML schema for component information. (Tangent: I'm thinking that DOAP could be a nice standard upon which to build phone-home version checking features.)

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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• Comment from Marc Hedlund , later that day

Hi, Paul,

Thanks much for the comments on CodeZoo. DOAP stands for 'Description of a Project', a format launched by Edd Dumbill. See usefulinc.com/doap for more info if you're interested.

I completely agree that DOAP could be useful for phone-home features -- that's a great idea.

Thanks, and be sure to let us know if there's anything else you'd like to see from CodeZoo.

Best, Marc Hedlund O'Reilly

• Comment from Paul Bissex , later that day

Thanks for the post, Marc. I meant to have a link on that tongue-in-cheek question ...

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