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.
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.
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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by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media
Last fall I posted a blog entry titled "Serving Notice" about the inadequacies of OS X notifications compared to their OS <=9 predecessors, and about my hope that Apple would look to cool projects like Growl for interface ideas. Well, Apple is holding out on me, but good work on Growl continues and the list of applications using it is growing.
One of my favorites is the unassuming NetGrowler, a faceless app which uses Growl to display information about changes in your network connection. If you're a laptop user like me, often changing networks many times a day, it's nice to know the exact moment at which you've received your new IP; and if you deal with flaky wireless connections it's good to know whether that IP is real or "self-assigned" (i.e. non-functioning).
Not so useful for desktop machines, perhaps, but great for PowerBook and iBook users.
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