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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 95843 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

TextMate: wiki bits

I'm working up to a longer post about my recent conversion to TextMate, which appears to be total. For the moment, though, just a quick note about a couple things I've added to the TextMate wiki: a rough guide to bug reporting (adapted from a mailing list reply from TextMate author Allan Odgaard), and a recipe for doing lookups in 10.4's built-in dictionary (based on code from John Gruber).

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
os x + textmate