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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.

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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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Real-World Haskell: A new book

This is exciting -- three notable personalities from the Haskell world (Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen) have teamed up to write a new book on Haskell for O'Reilly. Even better, it will be published under a Creative Commons license and released chapter-by-chapter on their website.

For now all that's on their new site is a blog, but that's sure to change over the coming days and weeks.

http://www.realworldhaskell.org/

I suspect this will become the standard intro to Haskell for working programmers like myself. If only it had been available at the beginning of my year-of-trying-to-learn-Haskell!

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
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Some related posts: Clojure is cool • Clojure talk in Northampton MA • The Language I Will Kind of Learn in 2008: Smalltalk • Understanding tuples vs. lists in Python • OSCON 2007, Day 3 • Neat Python hack: infix operators • Yegge's crusade • Learning Haskell inch by inch • The whitespace brigade • It's Haskell

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