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. I teach photographers web design and professional skills. 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. Its strong points include an introduction to Python, and better coverage of Django 1.0 than nearly anybody else. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.

Colophon

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, del.icio.us, Django, dpaste.com, Emacs, FreeBSD, Freenode, jQuery, LaunchBar, MacPorts, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, SQLite, Subversion, TextMate, Trac, Ubuntu Linux, wmii

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At least 67564 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

dpaste.com update

My little pastebin site, dpaste.com, has been chugging along nicely since I announced it here about six weeks ago. Today I updated to the very latest Pygments codebase, which allowed me to add colorizers for Apache config files and bash scripts.

I've also started to add some Django-specific rules to the Python colorizer; it now recognizes Django model field types (model.CharField and the like). My thanks go to everyone who's been using it, especially those who have given me feature suggestions and problem reports.

Friday, December 29th, 2006
django + site + web development
6 comments

Some related posts: The Django Book • Notes on my new Django setup • Pastebin update: Pygments • Handling legacy URLs with Django • Root, sweet root • Django as superego • Moving the blog to Django • Baby steps with Ajax • A minimal wiki in Django • Rails/Django lovefest in Chicago

• Comment from Lawrence Oluyede , later that day

Any news about releasing it as opensource :-) ?

• Comment from Dave , later that day

dpaste.com is great. Thanks for helping this Django neophyte get a leg up.

• Comment from CoolGoose , later that day

Hmm dpaste is really nice.. bu bye rafb and pastebin :P

• Comment from Armin Ronacher , 3 days later

@Paul: With the next pygments release there will be support for filters. Those would simplify improving the output of a python lexer without having to subclass it.

> Any news about releasing it as opensource :-) ?

While i don't know about the status of dpaste as open source application i can give you the sourcecode of the pocoo pastebin which works as example application for pygments:

http://trac.pocoo.org/browser/lodgeit

The subversion repo is under http://trac.pocoo.org/repos/lodgeit

Regards,
Armin

• Comment from Paul , 3 days later

Excellent, Armin, thanks for the update. I promise when my customizations add up to more than a few lines of code I'll submit a patch!

• Comment from Rob Hudson , 3 days later

Could you share some info (possibly a blog post) about using Pygments with Django? I saw some news about Pygments recently and it looked like a great highlighter. I was considering adding support to my blog written in Django but haven't dug into Pygments just yet.