About Me
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.
Book Project
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.
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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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Akismet, del.icio.us, Django, dpaste.com, Emacs, FreeBSD, Freenode, jQuery, LaunchBar, MacPorts, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, SQLite, Subversion, TextMate, Trac, Ubuntu Linux, wmii
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20 posts tagged "php"
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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From PHP to Python
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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Most boring upgrade ever
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
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Akismet anti-comment-spam
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
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Moving the blog to Django
Monday, April 10th, 2006
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More quick-not-dirty PHP
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
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The Zend Framework
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
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PHP and view/controller separation
Saturday, March 4th, 2006
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RapidWeaver spamming vulnerability
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
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Soft launch
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
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Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
Saturday, January 14th, 2006
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Python question: a better urlparse?
Monday, December 12th, 2005
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python
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Quick, but not dirty, PHP
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
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Form hijacking
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
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PHP/HTML enhancements for TextMate
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
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The Onion moves to Drupal
Sunday, September 4th, 2005
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web development
Django, Rails, and PHP
Friday, August 19th, 2005
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Rasmus on Ajax
Thursday, July 28th, 2005
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Open Source Initiative at OSCON
Thursday, July 28th, 2005
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Cake
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
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