Thanks for stopping by pbcoding. My name is Paul Bausch, and I'm a web developer and technical writer. This site is devoted to my consulting business, technical writing projects, and other coding-related activities.

I'm currently working full time as an application developer for Metafilter Network LLC, the home of community weblogs such as Metafilter and Ask Metafilter. So I'm not available for freelance contracts right now.

I've been developing websites since the first web browser was released. I started developing websites as a hobby while studying journalism at the University of Nebraska, and I became an application developer full-time once I finished my degree. I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area during the height of the dot-com boom, and helped build the weblog application Blogger. My first journey into extended writing was a book about weblogs that I co-wrote with two Blogger cohorts. In 2003 I put together a book called Amazon Hacks for O'Reilly, and authored two more books in the Hacks Series in 2005: Yahoo! Hacks on my own and Flickr Hacks with Jim Bumgardner. Most recently I helped bring Google Hacks into its third edition with new content.

My interests in the web and journalism collided in the form of weblogs, and I'm glad I've been able to help the format spread. I've been keeping my own weblog, onfocus.com, since 1998. In mid-2003 I started a directory of Oregon weblogs called ORblogs to help local bloggers find each other—and promote local independent writing in the process. When I'm not writing on or about weblogs, I'm thinking about syndication, web services, community, identity, privacy, and many other related topics. I've spoken at various conferences and public meetings including South by Southwest, Online Northwest, and the Emerging Technology Conference about weblogs, web trends, and the Hacks Series.