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.
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.
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.
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Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media
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
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What went wrong with Palm
Saturday, October 8th, 2005
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Palm/Mac sync woes
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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Mobile Python
Thursday, July 28th, 2005
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The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Python one-liner of the day
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How not to advocate via Google Code
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99 problems
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The original Lego Star Wars
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Toolbot.com source code available on request
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Django Mercurial mirror tweaks
3 days ago
Jason Calleiro
From PHP to Python
4 days ago
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dpaste.com
7 days ago
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Neat Python hack: infix operators
11 days ago
David Reynolds
The original Lego Star Wars
19 days ago
Jason Davies
Python one-liner of the day
21 days ago
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Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
21 days ago
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