About Me
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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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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Akismet, bitbucket, del.icio.us, Django, Emacs, FreeBSD, Git, jQuery, LaunchBar, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, Review Board, S3, SQLite, TextMate, Ubuntu Linux
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At least 96059 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.
21 posts tagged "php"
Making your way from PHP to Python and Django
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
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8 comments
Toolbot.com source code available on request
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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site
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tools
From PHP to Python
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
php
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programming
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python
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tips
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web development
11 comments
Most boring upgrade ever
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
freebsd
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php
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site
2 comments
Akismet anti-comment-spam
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
blogs
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php
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site
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spam
2 comments
Moving the blog to Django
Monday, April 10th, 2006
django
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site
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web development
12 comments
More quick-not-dirty PHP
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
php
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tips
The Zend Framework
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
php
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rails
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web frameworks
PHP and view/controller separation
Saturday, March 4th, 2006
php
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programming
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web development
2 comments
RapidWeaver spamming vulnerability
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
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risks
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Soft launch
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
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2 comments
Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
Saturday, January 14th, 2006
fun
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php
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programming
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python
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ruby
150 comments
Python question: a better urlparse?
Monday, December 12th, 2005
php
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python
2 comments
Quick, but not dirty, PHP
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
php
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programming
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tips
6 comments
Form hijacking
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
php
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risks
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spam
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tips
1 comment
PHP/HTML enhancements for TextMate
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
php
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textmate
3 comments
The Onion moves to Drupal
Sunday, September 4th, 2005
cms
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php
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web development
Django, Rails, and PHP
Friday, August 19th, 2005
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php
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programming
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rails
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web frameworks
3 comments
Rasmus on Ajax
Thursday, July 28th, 2005
ajax
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php
Open Source Initiative at OSCON
Thursday, July 28th, 2005
open source
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oscon
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php
Cake
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
php
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rails
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web frameworks
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