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.
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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Very cool news -- Mercurial 1.0 has been released. See the announcement and the site for details. There are no earth-shaking individual changes in this release, just a long list of improvements that have been made since 0.9.5.
One of the new features is easy_install friendliness, so assuming you've got that installed, getting the new version of Mercurial is as easy as:
$ sudo easy_install http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/mercurial-1.0.tar.gz
If you want to be kind to the server, since it's getting pounded today, you can do this instead in order to make your request via the Coral CDN:
$ sudo easy_install http://www.selenic.com.nyud.net/mercurial/release/mercurial-1.0.tar.gz
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