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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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I'm co-authoring a book, "Python Web Development with Django", with Jeff Forcier and Wesley Chun. It will be published by Prentice Hall in July 2008, but is available for pre-ordering on Amazon now.

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This site is built on a fresh trunk checkout of Django, running on Python 2.5.1, served by Apache and mod_python. 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.

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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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