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About Me

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.

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

This runs on Django, 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. 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 59018 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

Python 3 short course

Python 3, formerly known as "Python 3000", is coming. If you want to get up to speed, here's my simple three-step program:

  1. Watch this talk
  2. Read this PEP
  3. Try this tool on your code

Now you're an expert!

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
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2 comments

Some related posts: TextMate command for paste.e-scribe.com • Pastebin update: Pygments • The "path" module • Johnny can too code • Enforcing Style • The twenty-minute trouble ticket system • "Reverse" game update -- my language safari • Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP • Ajaxy regex tester in Python: retest • CodeZoo
• Comment from Chas Emerick , later that day

I started to write a comment, but it became far too long, so I moved it off to (a blog post)[http://blog.snowtide.com/2007/03/28/python-growth-lack-thereof].

Oh, and BTW Paul, your comment box is really tiny in my Firefox (in both dimensions).

• Comment from Chas Emerick , later that day

That was supposed to be a link, dammit! :-)

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