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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.

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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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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

iPhone hacking

Hacking the iPhone! Perfect reddit/slashdot/digg material. Except that the site's owners have requested that the link be kept off of those services, for fear of being overrun with traffic.

I love how this effort has taken off. It seems futile now for companies like Apple to release a microprocessor-based product with no developer kit. People will always want to get under the covers, and they'll clearly do it with or without you.

As I said back in January, what I really want to see is a shell prompt! (Webshell is cool, but is a different beast -- it's for access to remote servers.)

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
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Some related posts: The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck • Latest iPhone SDK bug reports • iPod touch: one week down, one week to go • A farewell to Palms (hello, iPod touch) • iPhone, youPhone, weallPhone • What is the iPhone running, really? • New MacBook Pro • Obsolescence • Apple battery recall • Best feature of the new MacBook Pro

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