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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. 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. 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

Spam Report

At least 70644 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

9 posts tagged "javascript"

How not to advocate via Google Code
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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Array comprehensions in Javascript
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
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Liking jQuery
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
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4 comments

Meta-roundup of Javascript libraries
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
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JavaScript and the thickening client
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
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Sort tables with sorttable.js
Monday, February 20th, 2006
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TrimPath Junction: a pure Javascript clone of Rails
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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The MySpace worm
Thursday, October 13th, 2005
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Tiddlywiki
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
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