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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.

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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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59 posts tagged "open source"

iPod touch: holding steady
Friday, October 17th, 2008
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DjangoProjectLauncher?
Saturday, May 24th, 2008
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Toolbot.com source code available on request
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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Django Mercurial mirror tweaks
Monday, March 17th, 2008
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Latest iPhone SDK bug reports
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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Stallman Inside
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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Open source bounties
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
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OSCON 2007, Day 5 (belated)
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
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OSCON 2007, Day 4
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
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OSCON 2007, Day 3
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
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OSCON 2007, Day 2 addendum: FOSCON
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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OSCON 2007, Day 2
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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OSCON 2007, Day 1
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
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OSCON 2007!
Friday, June 8th, 2007
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OpenOffice.org, sorta-Aqua edition
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
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One Laptop Per Child -- with Python
Friday, December 1st, 2006
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Microsoft steps up FUD campaign against Linux
Monday, November 20th, 2006
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PalmSource becomes ACCESS
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
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Songbird almost-0.2
Monday, October 16th, 2006
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Eudora goes open source
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
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Neelie Kroes vs. Microsoft
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
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SourceForge needs help
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
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Why Tucows bought Kiko
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
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Goodbye, SCO
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
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Mac OS Forge
Friday, August 11th, 2006
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OpenDarwin is (almost) dead, long live DarwinPorts
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
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Xiph, Ogg, FLAC, et al.
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
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QuickTime 0, Open Source 1
Saturday, May 6th, 2006
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The Open Source Desktop, Revisited
Friday, May 5th, 2006
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Linux will eat itself
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
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Sparkle: automatic application updates
Saturday, February 11th, 2006
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Songbird, open source competition for iTunes
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
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Great open source apps for the Mac
Monday, January 23rd, 2006
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Web Inspector, a DOM inspector for WebKit
Friday, January 20th, 2006
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Hopeful news from the USPTO
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
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BusinessWeek somewhat confused about Java
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
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Wozniak pro-open-source comments
Saturday, December 10th, 2005
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About.com starting to move to WordPress
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
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SourceForge prettifying
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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"Open Source" spreading, blurring
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
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Simon Willison's EuroOSCON report
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
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OpenOffice.org 2.0 has arrived
Friday, October 21st, 2005

MySQL and SCO
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Burn all JPEGs?
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
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DarwinPorts 1.1
Saturday, October 1st, 2005
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Groklaw on Fox on Massachusetts and OpenDocument
Friday, September 30th, 2005

More OSCON talks
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
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Mining Monday: FreeBSD, KDE and Me
Monday, September 26th, 2005
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Massachusetts and Microsoft
Saturday, September 17th, 2005

OSCON audio: Linux in Search of the Desktop
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
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Massachusetts and open source
Sunday, September 4th, 2005

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Cyberduck, cyberdoc
Saturday, August 27th, 2005
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Go Beavers: The OSU Open Source Lab
Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
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Camino
Saturday, August 13th, 2005
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Mozilla goes corporate
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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Sourcemorgue
Sunday, July 31st, 2005
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Open Source Initiative at OSCON
Thursday, July 28th, 2005
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OSCON 2005
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
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Linux on the desktop
Friday, July 22nd, 2005
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