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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

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.

Pile o'Tags

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Stuff I Use

Akismet, bitbucket, del.icio.us, Django, Emacs, FreeBSD, Git, jQuery, LaunchBar, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, Review Board, S3, SQLite, TextMate, Ubuntu Linux

Spam Report

At least 96059 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

19 posts tagged "oscon"

Best OSCON 2006 -- er, 2005 -- photo
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
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Simon Willison's EuroOSCON report
Thursday, October 27th, 2005
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Presentations 2.0
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

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More OSCON talks
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
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OSCON audio: Linux in Search of the Desktop
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
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OSCON Audio
Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

OSCON wrapups
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

OSCON, OSCOFF
Friday, August 5th, 2005

Open Laszlo
Friday, August 5th, 2005
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State of the Python Union
Friday, August 5th, 2005
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A Ruby happening
Thursday, August 4th, 2005
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Learning to talk good
Thursday, August 4th, 2005
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FOSCON
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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CodeZoo
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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Mozilla goes corporate
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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Railing
Monday, August 1st, 2005
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OSCON Playtime
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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