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.

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

Spam Report

At least 70644 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

DjangoProjectLauncher?

I just filed a ticket with the Google AppEngine project requesting the source to GoogleAppEngineLauncher, with the idea that this would make a very cool Django developer's aid on OS X -- much like Locomotive for Rails. Anybody else interested in this should go star it:

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=386

Update: Cool. In less than 24 hours, 38 people have starred the issue, making it the 31st most-requested item and rising -- ahead of hot numbers like "Please add Tcl support". Sorry, Tcl.

Saturday, May 24th, 2008
django + google + open source + os x
3 comments

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• Comment from John , 6 months later

Hey Paul,

Have you made any progress with this?

• Comment from Paul , 6 months later

Well, it's up to 97 stars, but still no source to be found, so at this point I'm assuming we won't see it.

(Obligatory book plug: Despite Google's failure to embrace my little idea, we do have an 11-page appendix in [the book](http://withdjango.com/) about using Django with GAE.)

• Comment from Derek , 16 months later

Well,the ticket is marked as closed and done now...