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

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.

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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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73 posts tagged "fun"

Chess via iPod
Monday, May 11th, 2009
apple + fun + games + iphone + mobile
2 comments

Hello from BarCampBoston
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
f2f + fun + pwdd

To Infinity Ultra and Beyond
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
fun + hardware

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

Python one-liner of the day
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
fun + python
9 comments

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

The original Lego Star Wars
Monday, March 31st, 2008
art + fun
2 comments

A weather site in six (declarative) lines
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
apache + fun + tools + webservers

The Language I Will Kind of Learn in 2008: Smalltalk
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
fun + haskell + history + programming + python + ruby + smalltalk + web frameworks
4 comments

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

Developer meeting braindump 2007-09-20
Friday, September 21st, 2007
fun + programming + wmassdevs

Developer meeting braindump 2007-08-09
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
fun + programming + wmassdevs
1 comment

Developer meeting braindump 2007-07-12
Friday, July 13th, 2007
fun + programming + wmassdevs
1 comment

Developer meeting braindump
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
fun + programming + wmassdevs
1 comment

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

The Palm Foleo
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
fun + hardware + linux + palm
3 comments

Twittered
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
dpaste + fun + site

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

Podcasting Antipatterns
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
audio + fun + media + podcasting
5 comments

Library of 1000 scammy spams
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
fun + risks + site + spam

Kerning DreamHost
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
design + fun
1 comment

Neat Python hack: infix operators
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
fun + haskell + programming + python
5 comments

iPhone, youPhone, weallPhone
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
apple + fun + hardware + iphone + mobile
1 comment

More unexpanded spam macros
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
fun + spam

99-byte Python quicksort
Friday, December 15th, 2006
fun + programming + python
10 comments

STFU
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
ajax + fun + rants + web development
1 comment

Reverse game: Codegolf edition
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
fun + programming + site

Blog flair backlash
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
blogs + fun + site
1 comment

Alpha Romeo Romeo Romeo
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
fun + world

Software for determining image similarity?
Friday, September 15th, 2006
design + fun + programming
5 comments

Obsolescence
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
apple + fun + hardware

Best OSCON 2006 -- er, 2005 -- photo
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
fun + oscon + rails + ruby
1 comment

Spot the forgery
Friday, July 21st, 2006
fun + spam

Web developer evolution
Sunday, May 21st, 2006
fun + web development + web frameworks

Jabberwocky 2.0 (BETA)
Saturday, May 20th, 2006
fun

Stupid eBay tricks
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
ebay + fun

Technology wanted: FFE
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
design + fun
4 comments

USB Art
Monday, March 20th, 2006
art + fun + hardware

The Million Beta Homepage
Monday, February 6th, 2006
design + fun + web development

The Blue Sky anti-massacree movement
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
design + fun + games

My Palm TX runs Windows 98
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
browsers + fun + palm
4 comments

Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
Saturday, January 14th, 2006
fun + php + programming + python + ruby
135 comments

Unclear on the concept, installment #7,423
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
fun + intellectual property

Best feature of the new MacBook Pro
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
apple + fun + hardware
4 comments

Google Earth for OS X
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
fun + google + os x
3 comments

Selling beat-up stuff on eBay
Sunday, January 8th, 2006
ebay + fun + palm

How to say you're sorry
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
fun + web development
2 comments

Evolving a new keyboard
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
design + fun + hardware + programming

Big. Green. Similar.
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
design + fun

Figlet Captcha
Monday, December 5th, 2005
fun + python + spam

Brainbenched
Monday, November 28th, 2005
fun + web development

BASIC Computer Games
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
fun + history + programming + reading
5 comments

Web 2.0 imitates satire
Monday, November 21st, 2005
design + fun + the well

Ubuntu, I buntu, we all buntu
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
fun + linux + ruby + ubuntu
1 comment

Dear Section508.gov webmaster
Monday, November 14th, 2005
design + fun
2 comments

Mining Monday: embarrassing Google searches
Monday, October 31st, 2005
fun + search + site

Mining Monday: the 419
Monday, October 24th, 2005
fun + spam

Product idea: Single-speaker iPod station
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
fun + rants
2 comments

Useless script: View180
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
fun + os x

Mining Monday: Random Shakespeare
Monday, October 17th, 2005
fun + site

Mining Monday: Ungreek
Monday, October 10th, 2005
fun + site

Kaypro model numbers
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
fun + hardware

Hizzitachi
Saturday, September 17th, 2005
fun + hardware + rants

Fun with link farms
Monday, September 5th, 2005
fun + spam
1 comment

Project idea: G5-style Mini
Sunday, August 28th, 2005
fun + hardware

My Brace Style Is Unstoppable
Monday, August 22nd, 2005
fun

This Spartan Life
Friday, August 19th, 2005
fun

Hard life for hardware
Monday, August 15th, 2005
fun + hardware

A Ruby happening
Thursday, August 4th, 2005
fun + oscon + programming + ruby
1 comment

Learning to talk good
Thursday, August 4th, 2005
fun + mozilla + oscon
1 comment

OSCON Playtime
Sunday, July 31st, 2005
fun + oscon

Everything on Rails
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
fun + rails + web frameworks

Happy indeed
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
fun + os x

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