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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, 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.

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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