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.
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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The syncbox
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
mercurial
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tips
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tools
2 comments
Branching and merging in real life
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
mercurial
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programming
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vcs
8 comments
History lesson
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
blogs
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django
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fun
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mercurial
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unix
Mercurial 1.0 released
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
mercurial
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programming
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vcs
Django Mercurial mirror tweaks
Monday, March 17th, 2008
django
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mercurial
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open source
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python
2 comments
A Mercurial mirror of Django's Subversion repository
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
apache
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django
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dpaste
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mercurial
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programming
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python
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svn
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vcs
10 comments
Mercurial: good enough for now
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
darcs
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mercurial
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programming
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svn
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vcs
7 comments
Booktools
2 comments
A different kind of URL shortener
4 comments
The syncbox
2 comments
Branching and merging in real life
8 comments
Summer Spam
1 comment
malpaso
Understanding tuples vs. lists in Python
13 days ago
vj100
Understanding tuples vs. lists in Python
13 days ago
scott
Bicycle Repair Man bundle for TextMate
19 days ago
Jasmine
Trying to send eBay a message?
56 days ago
Smok Cigs
Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
93 days ago
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by Paul Bissex
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