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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. I teach photographers web design and professional skills. 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

Python Web Development with Django I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Its strong points include an introduction to Python, and better coverage of Django 1.0 than nearly anybody else. 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.

Pile o'Tags

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Stuff I Use

Akismet, del.icio.us, Django, dpaste.com, Emacs, FreeBSD, Freenode, jQuery, LaunchBar, MacPorts, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, SQLite, Subversion, TextMate, Trac, Ubuntu Linux, wmii

Spam Report

At least 67592 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

Best OSCON 2006 -- er, 2005 -- photo

I wasn't able to get to OSCON this year, but this photo is definitely a winner in the category of impromptu geek performance art:

Ruby on Rael

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
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Some related posts: The Language I Will Kind of Learn in 2008: Smalltalk • Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP • Ubuntu, I buntu, we all buntu • A Ruby happening • Learning to talk good • FOSCON • CodeZoo • Railing • OSCON Playtime • Everything on Rails
• Comment from Filip Salomonsson , later that day

Except, of course, it's an OSCON _2005_ photo.

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