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

I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Its strong points include an introduction to Python, and better coverage of Django 1.0 than nearly anybody else. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.

Colophon

This runs on Django, 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. 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 59048 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

Python web framework mania

It was a busy week in the world of Python web frameworks.

The CherryPy project released its 2.1 beta.

Subway, a Ruby-on-Rails-style stack that builds on CherryPy, released its first milestone.

But the biggest news has been the release of the Django framework. Like Rails, Django grew out of real, production web apps and is going public with a lot of momentum. It seems to strike a nice balance between power and simplicity. Doesn't hurt that the website looks pretty, either...

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
django + python + web frameworks