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.
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.
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.
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
Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media
Someday my bugfix will come
Monday, September 4th, 2006
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The little things one learns
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
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Web Inspector, a DOM inspector for WebKit
Friday, January 20th, 2006
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My Palm TX runs Windows 98
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
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Camino 1.0b2
Friday, December 30th, 2005
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WebKit screen-grabbers
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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Flock, a browser for bloggers
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
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Opera: Free
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
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Camino
Saturday, August 13th, 2005
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Mozilla goes corporate
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Python one-liner of the day
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How not to advocate via Google Code
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99 problems
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The original Lego Star Wars
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Toolbot.com source code available on request
Simon Griffee
Django Mercurial mirror tweaks
3 days ago
Jason Calleiro
From PHP to Python
4 days ago
Yuli
dpaste.com
7 days ago
bruce
Neat Python hack: infix operators
11 days ago
David Reynolds
The original Lego Star Wars
19 days ago
Jason Davies
Python one-liner of the day
21 days ago
Paddy3118
Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
21 days ago
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