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PBX My name is Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using as much open source software as possible. From September to June I teach web design and other important non-photographic professional skills to photographers. In the '90s I wrote technology commentary and reviews for magazines, newspapers, and web publications, including Wired, Salon.com, FamilyPC, the late lamented Web Review, and the Chicago Tribune. Feel free to email me.

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I'm co-authoring a book, "Python Web Development with Django", with Jeff Forcier and Wesley Chun. It will be published by Prentice Hall in July 2008, but is available for pre-ordering on Amazon now.

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This site is built on a fresh trunk checkout of Django, running on Python 2.5.1, served by Apache and mod_python. 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.

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About.com starting to move to WordPress

Interesting -- About.com is moving to WordPress. I also learned from Matt's blog posting, much to my surprise, that they were using Movable Type before. It feels very significant that the New York Times Company is migrating its $410-million-dollar baby over to an open source content-management platform. The usual open source components further down the stack -- Apache, Linux, et al. -- don't have the same implications for feel and functionality that the content management layer does, and therefore this feels like more of a significant endorsement of open source.

If I didn't enjoy writing my own stuff so much, I'm pretty sure I'd be using WordPress too.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
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Some related posts: Songbird, open source competition for iTunes • BusinessWeek somewhat confused about Java • "Open Source" spreading, blurring
• Comment from Nelson, 12 months later

I dont think so...

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