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. 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

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.

Pile o'Tags

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Stuff I Use

Akismet, bitbucket, del.icio.us, Django, Emacs, FreeBSD, Git, jQuery, LaunchBar, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, Review Board, S3, SQLite, TextMate, Ubuntu Linux

Spam Report

At least 96060 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

The archive (page 2 of 44)

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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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A tiny little dpaste.com API
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
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Making your way from PHP to Python and Django
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
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Programming and Ice Cream
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
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To Infinity Ultra and Beyond
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
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iPod touch: holding steady
Friday, October 17th, 2008
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Back in Action
Saturday, September 27th, 2008

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DjangoProjectLauncher?
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
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