E-Scribe News : a programmer’s blog

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.

Pile o'Tags

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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!)

Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media

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DjangoProjectLauncher?
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
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Pocket Django
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
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The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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Python one-liner of the day
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
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History lesson
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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How not to advocate via Google Code
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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99 problems
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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The original Lego Star Wars
Monday, March 31st, 2008
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Toolbot.com source code available on request
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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Mercurial 1.0 released
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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