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About Me

PBX 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.

Book Project

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.

Colophon

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.

Pile o'Tags

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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

A Django site.
(Finally!)

Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media

12 posts tagged "media"

Podcasts I actually like
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
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Podcasting Antipatterns
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
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Steve Jobs to Music Industry: Drop DRM
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
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Textcasting?
Friday, May 26th, 2006
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Songbird, open source competition for iTunes
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
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BusinessWeek somewhat confused about Java
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
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About.com starting to move to WordPress
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
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Salon turns 10
Sunday, November 20th, 2005
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Sony gets spanked
Sunday, November 13th, 2005
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"Open Source" spreading, blurring
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
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The fall of Sony
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
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Rob Curley, Newspaperman of the Future
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
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Some possibly related items from my bookmarks