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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, bitbucket, del.icio.us, Django, Emacs, FreeBSD, Git, jQuery, LaunchBar, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, Review Board, S3, SQLite, TextMate, Ubuntu Linux

Spam Report

At least 95839 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

OSCON 2007!

My employer has generously agreed to send me off to OSCON this year and I'm very excited. I'm doing the whole shebang, tutorial days and all. (Current tutorial picks: Learning Ruby, Django Master Class, Modern Web Development with Python and WSGI, and Time Management for System Administrators.)

I had a blast and learned a ton attending OSCON in 2005 and I expect this round to be even better. For one thing, my involvement in open source projects, notably Django, means I know more people. And the whole open source world -- dare I say movement? -- has only gotten more powerful and impressive. I get to become better at my job while learning cool stuff and meeting smart people. I'm a lucky guy.

I also plan to do some serious pinball playing at Ground Kontrol.

Are you with me?

Friday, June 8th, 2007
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Some related posts: DjangoProjectLauncher? • Django Mercurial mirror tweaks • OSCON 2007, Day 5 (belated) • OSCON 2007, Day 4 • OSCON 2007, Day 3 • OSCON 2007, Day 2 addendum: FOSCON • OSCON 2007, Day 2 • OSCON 2007, Day 1
• Comment from Jacob Kaplan-Moss , later that day

Awesome - it'll be great to get to meet you in person!

And I'm *so* down for some pinball...

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