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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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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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Django Mercurial mirror tweaks

I really enjoyed my participation in the last Django sprint, but prior commitments prevent me from participating in the PyCon Django sprint that begins today. On the chance that people may be taking advantage of my Mercurial mirror of the Django repository, I made a couple tweaks:

Have fun!

Monday, March 17th, 2008
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• Comment from Simon Griffee, 8 weeks later

Thank you so much for providing the Django Mercurial mirror.

This has saved me from having to speak to my ISP here in Italy to try to solve the proxy errors I get when attempting to access the code.djangoproject.com trunk through SVN.

I'm also learning about Mercurial in the process!

• Comment from Paul, 8 weeks later

You're very welcome - glad to hear it's of use.

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