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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
and E-Scribe New Media

Watching logs

I have a webserver with about a dozen active domains. Sometimes I want to take a quick look at the ongoing action on a particular domain. I have an alias called "watchlog" that takes the domain name as an argument. It shows me the last 25 lines of the log for that domain and then new ones as they come, until I kill it.

It's a tcsh alias (sorry, bash users):

alias watchlog tail -f -n 25 /usr/local/www/domains/\!:1/logs/access_log

(Obviously this depends on a setup where domain folders are named after the domains themselves, with logfiles in consistent relative locations with standard names.)

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
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