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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.

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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.

16 posts tagged "palm"

A farewell to Palms (hello, iPod touch)
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
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The Palm Foleo
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
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Python 2.5 Library Reference for Plucker
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
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Django docs in Plucker format, nightly
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
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PalmSource becomes ACCESS
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
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More mobile Python options
Monday, February 6th, 2006
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Which PalmOS is really next?
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
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My Palm TX runs Windows 98
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
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Selling beat-up stuff on eBay
Sunday, January 8th, 2006
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Palm TX: First Impressions
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
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Django Docs in Plucker format
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
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Python Library Reference for Plucker
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
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Palm TX
Thursday, October 13th, 2005

What went wrong with Palm
Saturday, October 8th, 2005

Palm/Mac sync woes
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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Mobile Python
Thursday, July 28th, 2005
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