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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

Python Web Development with Django 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, 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

Spam Report

At least 70644 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

Cake

I've been on Web Application Framework Safari for the past couple weeks. The new hotness is Ruby on Rails, which has inspired lots of imitators. Not necessarily a bad thing. Because I do so much PHP work I was curious what kind of work had been done to bring this style of development to PHP. I found CakePHP.

I'll say this for them, they write good enough documentation that I actually had a working mini-site at the end of the first tutorial I tried. Pretty good compared to some of the projects I've seen with more high-minded architecture and no usable documentation at all.

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
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Some related posts: Making your way from PHP to Python and Django • The Zend Framework • Ruby on Rails 1.0 • TrimPath Junction: a pure Javascript clone of Rails • Controller freaks • YAPWF: TurboGears • Django progress • Django, Rails, and PHP • Railing • Everything on Rails

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