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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

12 posts tagged "business"

Latest iPhone SDK bug reports
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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Stallman Inside
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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Open source bounties
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
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Full-screen QuickTime
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
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Serious squatting
Monday, March 5th, 2007

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Good web hosting
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
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Microsoft steps up FUD campaign against Linux
Monday, November 20th, 2006
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Eudora goes open source
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
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International Freedom From Stupid Software Patents Day
Sunday, October 1st, 2006
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Remember the town of Half.com?
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
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Neelie Kroes vs. Microsoft
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
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Why Tucows bought Kiko
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
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