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

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.

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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 67532 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

An embarrassment of RichIAs

First we had this, which begat this which begat this and this, while meanwhile people have been busy doing that. Of course those guys want to get in on the action, and so naturally these guys do too, announcing this today.

The name "JavaFX Script" is brilliant -- now instead of just confusing Java and Javascript, people can confuse all three! Plus it sounds a little like "Flex" and has two As, a J and an X in it. Maybe Microsoft will rebrand Silverlight as "JFlex.NET" to help things along.

I feel almost as grumpy as Mark.

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
ajax + flash + programming + web2 + web development