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About Me

PBX I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. I teach photographers web design and professional skills. 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.

Book

Python Web Development with Django I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Its strong points include an introduction to Python, and better coverage of Django 1.0 than nearly anybody else. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.

Colophon

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.

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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

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30 posts tagged "design"

Aesthetics and computation
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
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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

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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