E-Scribe News : a programmer’s blog

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, bitbucket, del.icio.us, Django, Emacs, FreeBSD, Git, jQuery, LaunchBar, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, Review Board, S3, SQLite, TextMate, Ubuntu Linux

Spam Report

At least 96060 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

Mining Monday: Random Shakespeare

Each time you visit the randomly selected Shakespearean sonnet page, you'll see one of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. If you don't like the one you get... reload! There's also a search box so that you can narrow the possibilities down to, say, the two sonnets in which he uses the word "snow".

The page is currently the #4 hit on Google for the phrase "Shakespearean sonnet." It's a little sad that so many of the substantive web pages on Shakespeare's poetry don't rank higher than my cheap parlor trick!

Monday, October 17th, 2005
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