E-Scribe News : a programmer’s blog

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. I teach photographers web design and professional skills. 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. 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

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.

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

Spam Report

At least 67556 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

The archive (page 1 of 44)

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Branching and merging in real life
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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Summer Spam
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

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SPF-enabled spam domains
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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Chess via iPod
Monday, May 11th, 2009
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Aesthetics and computation
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
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Hello from BarCampBoston
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
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robots.txt via Django, in one line
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
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Django LogEntry to the rescue
Friday, February 13th, 2009
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Keeping emacs backup files tidy
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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Email servers: how not to do it
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
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