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
Preparing for Y2K.007DST on FreeBSD
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
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world
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Most boring upgrade ever
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
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Movin' on up
Saturday, July 15th, 2006
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webservers
The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Python one-liner of the day
7 comments
How not to advocate via Google Code
2 comments
99 problems
3 comments
bitmonk
Obscure "svn mv" problem solved
54 days ago
Charlie
Book news: Rough Cuts and Amazon
55 days ago
Simon Griffee
Django Mercurial mirror tweaks
72 days ago
Jason Calleiro
From PHP to Python
73 days ago
Yuli
dpaste.com
76 days ago
bruce
Neat Python hack: infix operators
80 days ago
David Reynolds
The original Lego Star Wars
88 days ago
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