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.
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Thursday, August 10th, 2006
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
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The Zend Framework
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
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Ruby on Rails 1.0
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
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Rails/Django lovefest in Chicago
Monday, December 5th, 2005
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TrimPath Junction: a pure Javascript clone of Rails
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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The "mirage" of CMS generality
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
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Locomotive: Rails for OS X
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
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Controller freaks
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
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Big Nerd Ruby Ranch
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
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YAPWF: TurboGears
Sunday, September 18th, 2005
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Django progress
Friday, August 26th, 2005
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A List Apart 4.0
Thursday, August 25th, 2005
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Django, Rails, and PHP
Friday, August 19th, 2005
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Railing
Monday, August 1st, 2005
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Everything on Rails
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
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Cake
Wednesday, July 20th, 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
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From PHP to Python
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dpaste.com
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Neat Python hack: infix operators
11 days ago
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The original Lego Star Wars
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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
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