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.
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Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media
The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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iPod touch: one week down, one week to go
Monday, February 25th, 2008
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Color names in JSON format
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
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The anti-desktop movement
Friday, March 16th, 2007
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Kerning DreamHost
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
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Widescreen as Tallscreen
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
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Software for determining image similarity?
Friday, September 15th, 2006
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Technology wanted: FFE
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
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Why the python.org redesign is good
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
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Python.org redesign launches
Monday, March 6th, 2006
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Baby steps with Ajax
Monday, February 27th, 2006
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Sort tables with sorttable.js
Monday, February 20th, 2006
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The Million Beta Homepage
Monday, February 6th, 2006
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Digg vs. Reddit vs. Me
Monday, February 6th, 2006
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The Blue Sky anti-massacree movement
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
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Palm TX: First Impressions
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
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Evolving a new keyboard
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
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Big. Green. Similar.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
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Tantek on CSS hacks
Monday, November 28th, 2005
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Web 2.0 imitates satire
Monday, November 21st, 2005
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Beware of the "just"
Monday, November 21st, 2005
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SourceForge prettifying
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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Dear Section508.gov webmaster
Monday, November 14th, 2005
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Blog Usability Showdown: Me vs. Jakob Nielsen
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
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sIFR: Smart Flash typography
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
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A List Apart 4.0
Thursday, August 25th, 2005
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NetGrowler
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
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Open Laszlo
Friday, August 5th, 2005
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The support experience
Sunday, July 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
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Django Mercurial mirror tweaks
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From PHP to Python
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dpaste.com
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Neat Python hack: infix operators
10 days ago
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The original Lego Star Wars
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Python one-liner of the day
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Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
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