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PBX 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.

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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.

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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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49 posts tagged "django"

robots.txt via Django, in one line
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
django + tips + web development
7 comments

Making your way from PHP to Python and Django
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
django + php + programming + python + web development + web frameworks
8 comments

DjangoProjectLauncher?
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
django + google + open source + os x
3 comments

Pocket Django
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
django + fun + mobile + pwdd + python + tools

History lesson
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
blogs + django + fun + mercurial + unix

Django Mercurial mirror tweaks
Monday, March 17th, 2008
django + mercurial + open source + python
2 comments

Book news: Rough Cuts and Amazon
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
django + pwdd + python + reading + writing
4 comments

A Mercurial mirror of Django's Subversion repository
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
apache + django + dpaste + mercurial + programming + python + svn + vcs
10 comments

Comment Spam Stats
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
akismet + blogs + django + site + spam
2 comments

World's ugliest Django app
Monday, January 21st, 2008
django + fun + python + web development
14 comments

A little something I've been working on
Monday, January 14th, 2008
django + podcasting + pwdd + python + reading + web frameworks + writing
15 comments

Make your own blog with Django in only 2.5 years
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
django + site
3 comments

OSCON 2007, Day 1
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
django + mobile + open source + oscon2007 + programming
1 comment

Django Unicodification
Friday, July 13th, 2007
django + python + web development
2 comments

Django.June wrapup
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
django + fun + python
6 comments

OSCON 2007!
Friday, June 8th, 2007
django + open source + oscon2007
1 comment

Django.June
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
django + programming + python + web development
2 comments

DjangoKit
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
django + fun + os x
6 comments

Managing a Django project using darcs
Monday, March 12th, 2007
darcs + django + haskell + tips + vcs
13 comments

Two new Django-powered sites
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
django + programming + python
4 comments

An IRC-specific Django FAQ
Monday, February 19th, 2007
django + tips

Django in Western Mass. in June
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
django + westmass
10 comments

New Year's programming resolutions
Monday, January 1st, 2007
django + programming + python
7 comments

dpaste.com update
Friday, December 29th, 2006
django + site + web development
6 comments

Django docs in Plucker format, nightly
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
django + palm
2 comments

dpaste.com
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
django + programming + python + site
1 comment

The Django Book
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
django + web development + writing
1 comment

Notes on my new Django setup
Sunday, October 29th, 2006
django + tips + web development
2 comments

Pastebin update: Pygments
Friday, October 20th, 2006
django + programming + python + site
1 comment

Handling legacy URLs with Django
Friday, September 29th, 2006
django + python + tips + web development
3 comments

Rails security hole hullabaloo
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
django + programming + rails + risks

Root, sweet root
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
django + tips + web development + webservers

Django as superego
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
django + python + web development
2 comments

Moving the blog to Django
Monday, April 10th, 2006
django + php + python + site + web development
12 comments

The twenty-minute trouble ticket system
Friday, March 31st, 2006
django + programming + python + tips
11 comments

Django development tips
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
django + python + tips + unix
11 comments

Django: less (magic) is more
Sunday, February 12th, 2006
django + python
6 comments

Soft launch
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
django + php + python
2 comments

YAPWF: Aaron Swartz's web.py released
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
django + python + web frameworks
4 comments

Django Docs in Plucker format
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
django + palm + python
1 comment

A minimal wiki in Django
Monday, December 12th, 2005
django + python + web development
15 comments

Rails/Django lovefest in Chicago
Monday, December 5th, 2005
django + rails + web development

Django template bundle for TextMate
Monday, November 28th, 2005
django + textmate
2 comments

Rob Curley, Newspaperman of the Future
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
django + media

Controller freaks
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
django + python + rails + web frameworks

Django progress
Friday, August 26th, 2005
django + rails + web frameworks

Django, Rails, and PHP
Friday, August 19th, 2005
django + php + programming + rails + web frameworks
3 comments

Python web framework mania
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
django + python + web frameworks

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