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 102345 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

Comments: Don't be shy

Readers, I know you're out there. At this early stage in my blog's life I'm getting about a thousand unique visitors a day -- not big by any means, but when I watch my logs I do get a bit of that hosting-a-party sensation. I know only a tiny fraction of visitors will ever comment, and that's as it should be. But I really enjoy getting comments.

So, don't be shy.

Or, if you want to go meta and gripe about how I should have a better comments interface, or you really wish I supported trackbacks, or think I should use hosted comment solution XYZ, say that!

Friday, October 21st, 2005
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1 comment

• Comment from Sian , 1 day later

Allowing trackbacks would me nice. At least you would be automatically notified if I'm linking to one of your posts etc. Your comment system is fine by the way.