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About Me

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.

Book

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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Stuff I Use

Akismet, bitbucket, del.icio.us, Django, Emacs, FreeBSD, Git, jQuery, LaunchBar, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, Review Board, S3, SQLite, TextMate, Ubuntu Linux

Spam Report

At least 96060 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

Django docs in Plucker format, nightly

It took me about a year to get around to it, but I finally set up that nightly cronjob to fetch the Django documentation into a Plucker file. (Note that if you don't have a handheld with a Plucker reader, or aren't closely following Django, this is of no use to you. Sorry. The intersection of those two sets is not very large.)

In addition to the current documentation pages, it includes the Trac Timeline, posts from the Community page, and the latest Django Book chapters. (Django team, let me know if I'm spidering anything I shouldn't be.)

The file is about 1.1MB 1.7MB. Point your tractor beam at http://dpaste.com/static/djangodocs.pdb and enjoy.

Update, 2009-02-28: This project has been retired.

Thursday, November 16th, 2006
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• Comment from Jacob Kaplan-Moss , later that day

Awesome - thanks for doing this, Paul!

• Comment from Paul , 1 week later

You're welcome, guys. I hope somebody besides me finds it useful!

Makes me want to create a server-side replacement for the Plucker desktop in Django...

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