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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!)

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by Paul Bissex
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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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