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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 Project

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.

Colophon

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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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

A Django site.
(Finally!)

Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media

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
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Some related posts: Advice on sequencing items in web interfaces? • STFU • Dabble DB • PHP and view/controller separation • Baby steps with Ajax • JavaScript and the thickening client • Ajaxy regex tester in Python: retest • Windows Live Local • The MySpace worm • AJAX Mistakes

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