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 96059 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

20 posts tagged "blogs"

History lesson
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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Comment Spam Stats
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
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2 comments

Comment Spam
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
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Blog flair backlash
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
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Spam, del.icio.us spam
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
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4 comments

Dispatches from Blogistan
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
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Joel on TextMate
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
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I hate those SitePal ads
Friday, September 8th, 2006
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9 comments

Is Akismet broken again?
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
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2 comments

Akismet anti-comment-spam
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
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The most popular blog in the world...
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
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Well blogs
Saturday, February 18th, 2006
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About.com starting to move to WordPress
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
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1 comment

Everybody loves tags
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Flock, a browser for bloggers
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
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Blog Usability Showdown: Me vs. Jakob Nielsen
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
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1 comment

More on "Splogs"
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
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Fixing Web Spam
Saturday, September 17th, 2005
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Blogging as R&D
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Google blog search
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
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