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About Me

PBX 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.

Colophon

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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Stuff I Use

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

A Django site.
(Finally!)

Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media

85 posts tagged "programming"

How not to advocate via Google Code
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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99 problems
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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Mercurial 1.0 released
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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Clojure is cool
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
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From PHP to Python
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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Latest iPhone SDK bug reports
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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Clojure talk in Northampton MA
Friday, March 7th, 2008
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Racebike building and software engineering
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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iPod touch: one week down, one week to go
Monday, February 25th, 2008
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Open source bounties
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
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The Language I Will Kind of Learn in 2008: Smalltalk
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
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A Mercurial mirror of Django's Subversion repository
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
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Understanding tuples vs. lists in Python
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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Python was apparently 2007's Language of the Year
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
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Developer meeting braindump 2007-09-20
Friday, September 21st, 2007
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Mercurial: good enough for now
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
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Python 3.0a1 on OS X
Friday, August 31st, 2007
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Developer meeting braindump 2007-08-09
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
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OSCON 2007, Day 5 (belated)
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
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OSCON 2007, Day 4
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
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OSCON 2007, Day 3
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
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OSCON 2007, Day 2 addendum: FOSCON
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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OSCON 2007, Day 2
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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OSCON 2007, Day 1
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
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Developer meeting braindump 2007-07-12
Friday, July 13th, 2007
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Developer meeting braindump
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
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Belated comments on Dreaming in Code
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
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Array comprehensions in Javascript
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
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Real-World Haskell: A new book
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
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Django.June
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
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An embarrassment of RichIAs
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
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Bicycle Repair Man bundle for TextMate
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
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Podcasts I actually like
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
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Python 3 short course
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
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Developers, developers, developers
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
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Liking jQuery
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
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Two new Django-powered sites
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
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Neat Python hack: infix operators
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
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Dreaming In Code: The Interview
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
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Interview with TextMate creator Allan Oddgaard
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
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Yegge's crusade
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
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Learning Haskell inch by inch
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
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The whitespace brigade
Monday, January 8th, 2007
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Software, meet hardware
Monday, January 8th, 2007
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It's Haskell
Sunday, January 7th, 2007
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Advice on sequencing items in web interfaces?
Friday, January 5th, 2007
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On Rewriting Software
Thursday, January 4th, 2007

New Year's programming resolutions
Monday, January 1st, 2007
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99-byte Python quicksort
Friday, December 15th, 2006
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Reverse game: Codegolf edition
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
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dpaste.com
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
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TextMate command for paste.e-scribe.com
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
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Pastebin update: Pygments
Friday, October 20th, 2006
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Uncovering dirt with Google code search
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
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Quotation punctuation evolution
Saturday, October 7th, 2006
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International Freedom From Stupid Software Patents Day
Sunday, October 1st, 2006
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The "path" module
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
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Software for determining image similarity?
Friday, September 15th, 2006
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Johnny can too code
Friday, September 15th, 2006
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A MAC address regex
Friday, September 8th, 2006
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Rails security hole hullabaloo
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
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TextMate update
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
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Enforcing Style
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
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Dabble DB
Monday, April 24th, 2006
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The twenty-minute trouble ticket system
Friday, March 31st, 2006
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Required reading: Steve Yegge
Monday, March 6th, 2006
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PHP and view/controller separation
Saturday, March 4th, 2006
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JavaScript and the thickening client
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
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"Reverse" game update -- my language safari
Friday, February 24th, 2006
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Programming languages I have known
Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Dangerous installers
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
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Logo bundle for TextMate
Wednesday, January 18th, 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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Tim Bray: "No New XML Languages"
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
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How to use vim, really
Monday, January 9th, 2006
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Ajaxy regex tester in Python: retest
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
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Evolving a new keyboard
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
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You really should learn regular expressions
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
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Quick, but not dirty, PHP
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
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BASIC Computer Games
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
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Big Nerd Ruby Ranch
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
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Django, Rails, and PHP
Friday, August 19th, 2005
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A Ruby happening
Thursday, August 4th, 2005
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CodeZoo
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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AJAX Mistakes
Monday, July 4th, 2005
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