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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

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Django.June

Back in January I posted about the idea of having a get-together of Django programmers here in Northampton in June, playing on the Django (Reinhardt) in June music festival happening at the same time.

I finally found time to put a page together, and people are beginning to sign up. So if you're a Django person and you're within range of Northampton, check it out!

http://open.e-scribe.com/wiki/DjangoDotJune

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
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• Comment from Jim T , later that day

What a very fine idea. I'd like to see the Ruby on Rails community top this one. I hope this is a big hit as I'd like to make it next year.

• Comment from Paul , later that day

Thanks, Jim.

I'm not sure what the Ruby on Rails equivalent would be -- maybe a field trip to the [Sheffield Ruby Mine in Franklin, NC][1] ("During the 2006 Season,
over 400 Honkers were found along with 22 Super Honkers!").

[1]: http://sheffieldmine.com/

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