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, 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 70644 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

TextMate command for paste.e-scribe.com

After seeing a similar offering from the Web 2.0 pastebin Attachr I couldn't resist. So here's a simple TextMate command that submits selected text to paste.e-scribe.com, opening the new URL in your default web browser. Bonus features: the filename is used as the title, and the language syntax is guessed from the file extension.

This is a very crude little script, but too much fun not to share. Download paste.tmCommand.zip and double-click the resulting .tmCommand file, that should be all there is to it.

Update: Slightly revised to avoid error when file extension is not recognized. Considering shebang-line sniffing too...

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
programming + python + site + textmate
2 comments

Some related posts: Bicycle Repair Man bundle for TextMate • dpaste.com • Pastebin update: Pygments • Moving the blog to Django • The twenty-minute trouble ticket system • "Reverse" game update -- my language safari • Logo bundle for TextMate • Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP • Ajaxy regex tester in Python: retest • CodeZoo

• Comment from Jökull , 2 years later

An updated version for dpaste.com for everyone's convenience

http://dpaste.com/hold/93295/

• Comment from Paul , 2 years later

Thanks, Jökull. This gives me the opportunity to mention that I've got a simple dpaste API running now for such things, too: <http://dpaste.com/api/v1/>

Enjoy!