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

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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3 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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6 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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