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.
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.
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.
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
At least 70645 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.
Someday my bugfix will come
Monday, September 4th, 2006
browsers
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mozilla
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os x
The little things one learns
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
browsers
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css
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web development
Web Inspector, a DOM inspector for WebKit
Friday, January 20th, 2006
apple
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browsers
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open source
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web development
My Palm TX runs Windows 98
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
browsers
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fun
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palm
4 comments
Camino 1.0b2
Friday, December 30th, 2005
browsers
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os x
WebKit screen-grabbers
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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os x
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python
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web development
Flock, a browser for bloggers
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
blogs
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browsers
Opera: Free
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
browsers
Camino
Saturday, August 13th, 2005
browsers
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open source
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os x
2 comments
Mozilla goes corporate
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
browsers
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mozilla
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oscon
A different kind of URL shortener
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The syncbox
2 comments
Branching and merging in real life
8 comments
Summer Spam
1 comment
SPF-enabled spam domains
1 comment
Brian Johnson
A different kind of URL shortener
Yesterday
Adrian Holovaty
A different kind of URL shortener
3 days ago
Ian Bicking
A different kind of URL shortener
4 days ago
aman
Sort tables with sorttable.js
10 days ago
spiele
Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
42 days ago
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