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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.

Book Project

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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by Paul Bissex
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Django Unicodification

On July 4th, which in America is a holiday involving even less attention paid to international events than usual, a wonderful thing happened to Django. On that day the Unicode branch, whose goal was to make it easier to work with non-ASCII character data in Django, was merged into the main development version (or "trunk" in svn-speak). There's an application porting guide on the Django wiki.

The main reason I'm making this post, though, is because while Malcolm Tredinnick's blog doesn't allow comments (nudge) I wanted to make sure he was publicly thanked for all his hard work on this project. While he notes that the project "was in no way a solo effort", there's no question that Malcolm deserves a huge round of applause, or many pints of beer, or some other international sign of gratititude. The evidence is hard to refute.

You can read more of Malcolm's post-merge thoughts on his blog.

Friday, July 13th, 2007
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Some related posts: World's ugliest Django app • Django.June • Handling legacy URLs with Django • Django as superego • Moving the blog to Django • Django Docs in Plucker format • A minimal wiki in Django • WebKit screen-grabbers • Controller freaks • Python web framework mania
• Comment from Simon Willison, later that day

Here's Malcolm's Amazon wishlist.

• Comment from Manuel, later that day

Bravo Malcolm!

Thanks for your excellent work.

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