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 102345 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

The archive (page 3 of 44)

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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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Clojure is cool
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
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